By Jennifer Polk. In this post I’m going to tell you how much money I’m making and how I’m making it. I’m doing this because I think it’s important to have conversations about money, especially among freelancers. I want to help potential business owners learn more about the process of starting out, and I share my own experience in the hopes that it helps other beginner solopreneurs, too. More...

By Liz Koblyk. It has been about five years since Careers Café started, and we’ve addressed a few before-and-after scenarios: how to explore career options and search for a job before you get one, and some tips for being in a job more happily once you’ve found work. More...

By David Smith. It’s three in morning. I can’t sleep. I’m sweating and anxious. In three hours I have to stand in front of 600 undergraduate students and try my best not to pass out. Like an athlete before the big event, I’m envisioning my lecture slide by slide, which takes my heart rate into overdrive. More...

By Melonie Fullick. Blame for lack of success falls on students, but it shouldn't. More...

By Brent Davis. During a second interview for a job that turned out to be my first as a university lawyer, the dean at a university in the United Kingdom made it quite clear that, while he was all for legal review and evaluating risk, such inconvenient formalities shouldn’t stand in the way of a good deal. Such was my introduction to higher education law. More...

By Martha Crago. A combination of events set me to thinking about “boldness” this summer and early fall. Just before summer started, one of our researchers at Dalhousie University, Jeff Dahn, signed a contract with U.S. electric-car manufacturer Tesla Motors. More...

By David Kent. There has been a lot of chatter in social and news media about the recently elected Canadian Government and its “pro-science” stand. There is not one, but two, ministers who have  the word science in their titles. More...

By Jonathan Thon. I began my career search 2½ years into my first (and only) postdoctoral fellowship. At this time I had published 10 manuscripts (four from my PhD and six from my postdoc) and had just recently begun working in my “free time” on an innovative (i.e., risky) new approach to studying our biological question, which was purposefully outside the scope of my principal investigator’s expertise, and which he reluctantly (at first) indulged. More...

By Natalie Samson. To mark its 75th anniversary, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has launched a new digital timeline marking important events in the organization’s history. “Most people don’t know we’ve been around for 75 years,” said Federation executive director Jean-Marc Mangin. “We wanted something that would be user-friendly, that could be accessed easily, to tell our story and our contribution to the world of ideas of Canada and to the intellectual development of Canada.” The launch of the timeline coincides with the Federation’s annual conference, which takes place Nov. 16 and 17 in Ottawa. More...

By Becky Rynor. The conference room at the University of Toronto Faculty Club is handsomely appointed, right down – or up – to three sweeping circular brass chandeliers bisecting the room. Slender, sculpted metal branches culminate in three tiers of metal “candlesticks,” each tipped with a flame-shaped fluorescent bulb. More...