THE JOB POD with Youth Employment Services

This week, Alex talks about rec­og­niz­ing when you need a change in your career and how to act on that knowl­edge. They also announce that the Job Pod will be going on hia­tus and piv­ot­ing to a blog. YES is going through some changes, but we might return to pod­cast­ing some­day. Thanks for lis­ten­ing to the Job Pod! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

In this Episode, Hafiz Jat­to and Alex Neufeldt inter­view David Cam­field from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba Labour Stud­ies depart­ment. We talk about how labour stud­ies can help us bet­ter under­stand a con­fus­ing work world, how labour orga­niz­ing hap­pens, and the future of work­place organizing. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

This week, Alex talks with Bashir Ahmad from Safe Work­ers of Tomor­row about work­ers' safe­ty rights and how work­ers can assert their safe­ty rights in the workplace. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Alex talks with Caryn Birch, Direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion and Train­ing with Resource Assis­tance for Youth Inc. about home­less­ness, employ­ment, and the rela­tion­ship between the two. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

After a brief hia­tus, the Job Pod returns with a new host: Alex Neufeldt, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and spe­cial projects man­ag­er with Youth Employ­ment Ser­vices Man­i­to­ba. For Alex's first episode, she shares some strate­gies for man­ag­ing your social media accounts with the knowl­edge that employ­ers are prob­a­bly mon­i­tor­ing them. Lis­ten for tips on what employ­ers look for, clean­ing up your accounts, and cre­at­ing pri­vate spaces online. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Good­byes are always hard! Today, we say good­bye to Alexan­der Fer­rer, the Edu­ca­tion Coor­di­na­tor at Youth Employ­ment Ser­vices and ded­i­cat­ed host of the Job Pod, who will be ven­tur­ing off to Edmon­ton with his wife in August. In prepa­ra­tion for this good­bye, the YES staff came up with a few ques­tions for Alexan­der, every­thing from favourite mem­o­ries in Win­nipeg to favourite ramen brands.We wish him all the best on his new adventure! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der inter­views his friend Heather Rose again, but this time to dis­cuss work expe­ri­ence pro­grams. Today, Heather will talk about her expe­ri­ence work­ing as a Career Devel­op­er Coor­di­na­tor and the ben­e­fits of work expe­ri­ence pro­gram, both in school cur­ricu­lum and outside. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der inter­views his friend Heather Rose to dis­cuss the world of graph­ic design. With over 15 years of graph­ic design both in the field and class­room, Heather Rose dis­cuss­es what a graph­ic design­er does, the options of how to get into it, and what type of per­son would be a good fit to get into graph­ic design. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der talks with his cowork­er Lau­ra-Lynne Hilde­brand to dis­cuss nav­i­gat­ing through post sec­ondary. Decid­ing what field to get into is tough, and Youth Employ­ment Ser­vices can help you out with nav­i­gat­ing towards your career whether it is uni­ver­si­ty, col­lege, or any voca­tion­al pro­gram. Lau­ra-Lynn also dis­cuss­es the Tran­si­tion­al Guide to Post Sec­ondary Education. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today, Alexan­der talks to the com­pos­er of our pod­cast jin­gle: Nathan Crowe. He is more than a com­pos­er, he is an all around musi­cian. Are you inter­est­ed in get­ting into musi­cal com­po­si­tion or musi­cal per­for­mance? Nathan talks about his expe­ri­ence work­ing as a musi­cian, com­pos­er, teacher, and even a librarian! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today, Alexan­der talks to his sis­ter in law Kat­ri­na. She is a first year uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent who start­ed in a pan­dem­ic and it has been a steep learn­ing curve. Tune into lis­ten about her strug­gles that she has over­came this first year of remote learn­ing, what she has learned and some advice she would give to peo­ple think­ing about get­ting into post-sec­ondary education. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Join Alexan­der and Mor­ag as they dis­cuss what you should be think­ing about on your first days, weeks and months of a new job! Build­ing on the last episode where we dis­cussed how to start a first job, we take the next steps to look at how to suc­ceed in a new work­place. We cov­er how to set­tle in and impress a new team, what ques­tions to ask as you're onboard­ing and how to put your best pro­fes­sion­al foot forward. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Join Alexan­der and Mor­ag for a bit of a dif­fer­ent episode today — instead of talk­ing about the job hunt, this episode about ​“start­ing a new job” takes place at the stage of a job offer. Tune in to hear about nego­ti­at­ing an offer, prepar­ing to start, employ­er expec­ta­tions and nav­i­gat­ing your own hopes and fears as you take a new step. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mike is back with part 2 of his inter­view with Kori Cuth­bert, man­ag­ing part­ner at the Hive Climb­ing and Fit­ness Gym here in Win­nipeg. In part 1 we cov­ered the logis­tics of open­ing a new busi­ness and Kori's career jour­ney. Today, we get a behind the scenes look into the unique hir­ing process that The Hive took when staffing their new loca­tion. Tune in to find out what they did dif­fer­ent­ly, and the ben­e­fits they are already seeing. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Join Mike for a con­ver­sa­tion with Kori Cuth­bert, man­ag­ing part­ner at the Hive Climb­ing and Fit­ness Gym here in Win­nipeg. The Hive is a new busi­ness that opened up dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Today's episode is just part 1 of 2: tune in today to learn more about Kori's career jour­ney to get to where to where he is now, and to learn more about what it's been like to open a busi­ness in the midst of always chang­ing pub­lic health restric­tions. Watch out for part 2 to learn more about their unique hir­ing process at The Hive. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

We are back from our hol­i­day break and today Alexan­der and Mor­ag talk about infor­ma­tion­al inter­views — and spring some sur­prise ques­tions on each oth­er. Infor­ma­tion­al inter­views are a great way to build your net­work and learn more about a poten­tial career or work­place at the same time. Lis­ten in today to hear us con­duct infor­ma­tion­al inter­views on each oth­er, and to hear our tips for how to con­duct your own! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Alexan­der and Mor­ag go for an amble through the world of online job hunt­ing. From a step-by-step walk through of how to use Indeed vs a com­pa­ny career web­site to the expla­na­tion of appli­cant track­ing sys­tems how to get through them — we take you through all our favourite tips and tricks to rock your online job hunt. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today's inter­view is with Nathan Enns from the film indus­try here in Win­nipeg. Nathan and Mor­ag talk about the wide vari­ety of jobs avail­able in the indus­try, and why hav­ing a wide range of pre­vi­ous job expe­ri­ence is actu­al­ly a big strength in his role. Nathan also touch­es on dif­fer­ent ele­ments of work he's strug­gled with in the past, and what strate­gies he's found to make his career work for him! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag take a bit of a dif­fer­ent direc­tion from their usu­al pos­i­tive mes­sages to deliv­er a PSA on the job hunt­ing pet peeves of the staff here at YES. Tune in to find out exact­ly what NOT to do in your job hunt. Don't for­get — if you hear any­thing a lit­tle too famil­iar, don't fret — we're even shar­ing some of our own job hunt­ing mistakes. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag talks to Rosie Boucha, the com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er at the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Ita­ta Cen­tre in Win­nipeg. Rosie talks about her not-so-typ­i­cal career path to get to her role today, her advice for job hunters inter­est­ing in com­mu­ni­ca­tions and design and how her love for learn­ing has helped her career advance to where she is now. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag look at the job hunt­ing land­scape for the fall of 2020 in Man­i­to­ba. While unem­ploy­ment rates have some­what recov­ered from the ini­tial shocks of covid-19 shut downs, there is still tough com­pe­ti­tion out there for job hunters. Lis­ten in today to hear our tips and tricks for how to broad­en your job hunt, net­work effec­tive­ly and get some ideas on ways to upskill your­self and piv­ot to meet labour needs in the uncer­tain­ty of Covid-19. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today's pod­cast guest is Jerikko Roal­lo, who works in human resources for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, as well as the Cana­di­an Armed Forces. Jerikko walks us through how he end­ed up in both of his cur­rent roles, all the way from his first job, through the var­i­ous train­ing and edu­ca­tion he received, up to today. Lis­ten in to learn about what skills are strengths in the HR world, and what Jerikko's insid­er tips are for any­one inter­est­ed in work­ing in the broad world of human resources. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Look­ing for work but not real­ly sure what skills to high­light? Join Alexan­der and Mor­ag as they talk about cre­at­ing a skills inven­to­ry to help you in your job hunt. We talk about the dif­fer­ence between hard skills and soft skills, the pro­fes­sion­al lan­guage to use when talk­ing about your infor­mal expe­ri­ences and ways to get start­ed on cre­at­ing your own skills inven­to­ry today! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Tune in to lis­ten to Mor­ag inter­view Mark Leonard, a soft­ware devel­op­er in Win­nipeg. Mark walks us through what he does in the day to day tasks of his job (spoil­er: it's not all just cod­ing) and talks about his jour­ney to get to where he is now in his career. If you are inter­est­ed in a career in infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, lis­ten in to hear Mark's tips for young peo­ple to get into the field, and what strengths he's cul­ti­vat­ed that have allowed him to succeed. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag talk about tak­ing ini­tia­tive to impress the heck out­ta your boss! We cov­er: what tak­ing ini­tia­tive looks like, when it's appro­pri­ate to take ini­tia­tive, when it's NOT appro­pri­ate, some of the ben­e­fits you can enjoy from the actions of tak­ing ini­tia­tive. At YES we know that tak­ing ini­tia­tive is such an impor­tant part of excelling in the work­place — lis­ten in today to hear our tips! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag chats with Stephanie about work­ing in the arts. Stephanie cur­rent­ly works as the film dis­trib­u­tor for the Win­nipeg Film Group and also facil­i­tates art work­shops as a pri­vate artist. She talks about the respon­si­bil­i­ties of her role in her career that many peo­ple might not know about, she debunks some of the com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about work­ing in the arts and give her advice on how to start net­work­ing and mak­ing con­nec­tions if you are inter­est­ed in a career as an artist or in arts administration. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

So you've land­ed a job inter­view? Con­grat­u­la­tions! Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag talk about ​“the job inter­view check­list” — AKA all the things you need to think about on top of prac­tic­ing your com­mon inter­view ques­tions. If you want to hear more about how to pre­pare your answers, check out our pre­vi­ous pod­cast on ​“Com­mon Inter­view Questions”. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag inter­views Caileigh Mor­ri­son, exec­u­tive direc­tor of Rest-a-Bit Home­less Shel­ter. When Caileigh lost her long-term job due to Covid-19 back in the spring of 2020, she reg­is­tered as a YES client to get some feed­back on her resume and to have help through the process of tran­si­tion­ing into a new job amidst a pan­dem­ic. Caileigh talks about her expe­ri­ence as a YES client, the suc­cess­ful career tran­si­tion she's nav­i­gat­ed dur­ing these ​“unprece­dent­ed times”, and her advice to job seek­ers now. Find us as yesmb​.ca to let us help you in your job hunt. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Join Alexan­der and Mor­ag as they explore the world of sea­son­al jobs in the fall. By tun­ing in you'll learn about dif­fer­ent kinds of sea­son­al work, when and where to start look­ing and our tips for stand­ing out among the oth­er appli­cants. We also talk about how Covid-19 is going to be chang­ing the way the sea­son­al job hir­ing hap­pens this fall. Lis­ten to the end to hear about some of our sea­son­al job online resources and our in-per­son event com­ing up on Octo­ber 5th! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag inter­views her boss — Char­i­ty Leonard, the exec­u­tive direc­tor of YES. Char­i­ty start­ed at YES almost 9 years ago at the front desk, and worked her way through var­i­ous posi­tions before step­ping into the exec­u­tive direc­tor role. Lis­ten in to hear about how Char­i­ty got to where she is today, her advice for oth­er young peo­ple look­ing for a career in non-prof­it man­age­ment, and to hear her favourite things about work­ing at YES. You can find us at yesmb​.caOur theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Look­ing for your first job? Join Alexan­der and Mor­ag as they talk about what to think about when look­ing for your first job. From com­mon fears and hopes to resume basics and assess­ing your skills, there are many dif­fer­ent things you need to focus on when look­ing for your first job.The employ­ment facil­i­ta­tors at YES can help you in your job hunt today — find us at yesmb​.ca .Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Are you inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about a career in broad­cast­ing? Lis­ten in today as Mor­ag chats with Jared McK­e­ti­ak, the sta­tion man­ag­er at UMFM, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba radio sta­tion. Jared has been involved at the sta­tion for over 20 years and offers some insight into the career paths avail­able in radio, the strengths he's used to suc­ceed, and a weak­ness he's need­ed to work on.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES have a con­ver­sa­tion about pro­fes­sion­al and pos­i­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the work­place (and in your per­son­al life!) If you lis­ten in, you'll learn about how to take a neg­a­tive or neu­tral response and re-frame it to be pos­i­tive and pro­fes­sion­al, some tips for how to use your lis­ten­ing skills to be a bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tor, and how to hold your­self pro­fes­sion­al­ly at work to thrive in your job. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag sits down with Sam Olea, the edu­ca­tion out­reach coor­di­na­tor for Futures For­ward to build on last week's episode on explor­ing post-sec­ondary options. Today, we focus the con­ver­sa­tion on how you can make the suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion into a post-sec­ondary pro­gram. We cov­er: what you need to think about, what resources are avail­able to you, our expe­ri­ences (includ­ing what we wish we did a bit dif­fer­ent­ly), and the adapt­ed ways you should approach your post-sec­ondary expe­ri­ence dur­ing the time of covid-19 and online classes. Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag sits down with Sam Olea, the edu­ca­tion out­reach coor­di­na­tor for Futures For­ward to talk about explor­ing your post-sec­ondary options. Think­ing of going back to school but won­der­ing about what the ben­e­fits would be? Or won­der­ing what the heck the dif­fer­ence between uni­ver­si­ty and col­lege is? Lis­ten in to find out more today on your options, and how we can help you explore them. Tune in again next week to hear about our tips for tran­si­tion­ing suc­cess­ful­ly to post-sec­ondary school­ing.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today, Alexan­der and Mor­ag sit down to dis­cuss using SMART goals in your job hunt. Tune in to find out what a SMART goal is, how to use them to help you suc­ceed in your job hunt, and in your longer term career goals. Mor­ag shares a SMART goal she used to land her job at YES, and Alexan­der shares a SMART goal he wish­es he used when he was look­ing for his first job.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag from YES chats with Aleeza Ger­stein, a pro­fes­sor of micro­bi­ol­o­gy and sta­tis­tics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba. She talks about her career path to get to her cur­rent role as a prof (spoil­er: it's a lot of school), her advice to young peo­ple who are inter­est­ed in pur­su­ing acad­e­mia or research as a career, and her gen­er­al tips for how to tran­si­tion suc­cess­ful­ly into post-sec­ondary. Are you inter­est­ed in fur­ther train­ing or edu­ca­tion? Get in touch with one of our employ­ment facil­i­ta­tors today to talk about your options and stay tuned for future episodes on choos­ing the right post-sec­ondary option for you! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Have you ever found your­self blank when try­ing to answer job inter­view ques­tions? Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag cov­er some of the most com­mon inter­view ques­tions and our favourite ways to struc­ture your answers. Join us today to learn to to use acronyms like ​“STAR” and ​“JEEP” to ace the interview.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag inter­views Sasha Mark, a come­di­an and a vol­un­teer coor­di­na­tor at a non­prof­it in BC. Sasha shares his tips for man­ag­ing a busy sched­ule with two jobs, what strengths he has that have allowed him to excel in both in com­e­dy and in the non-prof­it world (and what weak­ness­es he's had to work on), and his expe­ri­ence in work­ing towards decol­o­niz­ing the work­place. You can also find Sasha's com­e­dy online at The Laugh­ing Drum.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES talk about how to write a killer cov­er let­ter, and why you should. Cov­er let­ters are such an impor­tant part of any job appli­ca­tion — but a lot of peo­ple mis­tak­en­ly skip that step. Tune in today to hear our tips on writ­ing your own cov­er let­ters to amp up your appli­ca­tion game.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Have you ever seen a job post­ing that looks too good to be true? Today Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES are joined by Car­o­line Fer­rer, a self-pro­claimed ​“scam enthu­si­ast” to talk about how to spot scams and mul­ti-lev­el-mar­ket­ing schemes. There are some key red flags to look for in job post­ings and dur­ing an inter­view process to deter­mine if this dream job is a scam or not, join us today to learn what to look for!Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Net­work­ing can seem like a scary word — espe­cial­ly if you aren't a super out­go­ing per­son. Even if you think you can't do it, every­one has a net­work, and today, Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES talk about how to map out your net­work, and how to use that net­work to access the hid­den job market.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Mor­ag inter­views Asha Nel­son from Fire­weed Food Co-op and Han­nah Muha­jarine from Kitatip­ithi­ta­mak Mith­wayawan on the top­ic of vol­un­teer­ing. Lis­ten in to hear about how their vol­un­teer work has enriched their careers and led them to new employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties. Asha and Hannha both work in the non-prof­it sec­tor and have found their vol­un­teer work has pro­vid­ed them with the valu­able skills and net­works they've need­ed to suc­ceed. Inter­est­ed in vol­un­teer­ing at the South Osborne Farmer's Mar­ket that Asha coor­di­nates this sum­mer? Click here to check out the application! Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Employ­ment gaps — pret­ty much every­one has one (or more) on their resumes. Today, Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES chat about their own employ­ment gap expe­ri­ences and how to frame your own employ­ment gaps dur­ing the job hunt. Join us to to learn how to talk about your employ­ment gaps in a job interview.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Today Alexan­der chats with two mem­bers of the YES team, Kel­ly (an employ­ment facil­i­ta­tor) & Mari­am (our admin­is­tra­tion coor­di­na­tor), to talk about their immi­gra­tion sto­ries, the bar­ri­ers they expe­ri­enced to job hunt­ing, how they over­came those bar­ri­ers & their tips for new­com­ers in their job hunt in Manitoba.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Rejec­tion can real­ly suck. Big time. Today, Alexan­der and Mor­ag from YES get togeth­er to have a con­ver­sa­tion about how rejec­tion feels, their own sto­ries of rejec­tion, and ways you can use rejec­tion as a jump­ing off point to suc­cess in the job hunt.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Dr. Hay­ley Char­trand from Nor­west Co-op Com­mu­ni­ty Health dis­cuss­es her two cur­rent roles sup­port­ing youth, how Nor­west is sup­port­ing the com­mu­ni­ty and her own career jour­ney with YES Employ­ment Facil­i­ta­tor Melissa.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

In today's episode, Alexan­der & Mor­ag from YES talk about tips to build con­fi­dence in your job hunt. Start­ing with your resume, all the way up to the inter­view (and beyond), there are many ways you can use con­fi­dence to help you land a job.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.

Wel­come to The Job Pod with Youth Employ­ment Ser­vices, a pod­cast designed to talk about every­thing from find­ing a job to explor­ing dif­fer­ent career options! This week, Mike talks to Kur­tis Ulrich, founder of Wild­fire AP — a wild­fire adap­ta­tion and pro­tec­tion con­sult­ing firm — about his edu­ca­tion, what got him into the field of wild­fire plan­ning & pro­tec­tion, and how he start­ed his own business.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.