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You just met this representative from a firm and you exchanged business cards. So…….what do you do now? If you have ever been to an information session, networking session or a recruiting session you may have encountered this situation once or multiple times.

Following up after you have met someone could be quite a challenge! Below are four of my tips to help you with the”follow up” portion of…

Coffee Date with a Recruiter

Yes, you read the title correct. I will be talking about Coffee Dates and no, it’s not for your Tinder date (well maybe it can help there too). As a student in post secondary you may come across a time that you don’t know the recruiters enough or you want to follow up with recruiters that you met weeks/months ago and aren’t sure what to do to. Asking to go for a coffee is quite normal as it is…

5 Words that make your email less effective

If you were to guess, how many emails do you think are sent every day? The answer is over 100 billion. Yes, this includes spam, but many workers have claimed that emails are very important and a necessity for their day-to-day job.

Writing emails could be one of the most challenging things you can do as a professional, as it’s very hard to set a tone through your words. It is also hard to under…

Do’s and Don’ts of Polo Shirts

Summer is here which means polo shirts will be a great option for casual Fridays. Let’s go over the key dos and don’ts of polo shirts following with a few tips of my own!

DO’S

Colours & Minimal Patterns

Use both to your advantage during summer as it is the easiest way to add colour into your wardrobe for the day. But you can also never go wrong with whites, blacks and greys if you don’t feel…

Business Casual for Men

Everyone gets confused once in a while when you hear “Business Casual”. As a general rule, I describe business casual as at the minimum of dress shirt, dress pants/chinos, blazer, dress socks and dress shoes.

Be aware that business casual can also be referred to are “dress down” depending on the context. It can be as casual as dress shirt/polo shirt, chinos and running shoes – it truly depends…

10 Style Rules for All

My top ten style rules. Those are the ones I follow personally, and the ones I use to guide my own wardrobe choices. In list format, they are:

1. Know Your History – Be aware of the fashion trends, fads and forever golds that came before yours. It will help you stand out and prepare you for a conversation on your attire. Personally, it helps break the ice instead of those cold awkward Q&As. But…

Maintenance of your attire

You finally bought that suit you were eyeing for weeks and those shoes you wanted since the summer. Finally you broke into the new dress shoes you bought and Oh, and the dress shirt you just got tailored is beyond amazing. Now how do you maintain them? How do you clean them?

Maintaining plays a bigger role than you could imagine – your things need to last and look good for a long period of time.…

What does style mean to you?

In recent updates, I was approached by a student group at McMaster University: Style at Mac, with a question “What does style mean to you?”. At first glance, that seems like a simple question to answer but because it has the “personal” factor making it harder to put your answer into words. And surprisingly its also a question where there is no wrong answer!! So what was my answer? My response…

A millennial’s guide to getting your mind right

I came across this great article: A millennial’s guide to getting your mind right.

Here’s to putting on your grown-up pants, and accepting personal responsibility, even when it feels like everything is completely chaotic. Read this simple guide to crushing it in life—or at the very least, looking as though you are.

1. Acknowledge your worth.

Recognizing your self-worth determines how you operate…

Google Yourself, no really!

Google Yourself.…no really, Google yourself and see what comes up. Ideally you should be the entire first page of the results but we all know it takes time. But wait, do you see something that is you don’t want a potential employer to see? If the answer is yes, then you have lot of work to do.

The key to online presence isn’t just having an account on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or website, its…

The New Business Casual (men)

Everyone gets confused once in a while when you hear “Business Casual” and i’m going to break that down for you here! Starting with the basics:

1. Wear fitted clothes.

One of the easiest ways to ruin an outfit is to wear clothes that are too large for you, or in some cases, too small. You may work out but no one would ever be able to tell under a shirt that is way too large for you.

2. Wear warm…

BlackBerry announces three new phones!

BlackBerry Z3 – Details were released much earlier in the year.

BlackBerry Classic – bringing back the iconic track pad and menu options, on a better and premium phone. Acting as an upgrade to the Bold 9900.

BlackBerry Passport – potentially the biggest phone or the smallest phablet out in the market, with a 1:1 ratio screen ratio, unreal battery (3450mAh). 13MP camera and great pixel per inch…

5 reasons for the stock market plunge — and what comes next

NEW YORK — Well, that was fun while it lasted.

For years, investors in U.S. stocks shrugged off threats — a government shutdown, fear of a euro collapse, a near U.S. debt default — and just kept on buying. At the sixth anniversary of the bull market in March, the Standard and Poor’s 500 index had more than tripled in value.

China stocks plunge: ‘It feels like the end of the world’

Now,…

Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently

Some psychology research in recent years is making an old aphorism look like an incomplete thought: Clothes make the man… Yes? Go on?

Clothes, it appears, make the man perceive the world differently.

A new study looks specifically at how formal attire changes people’s thought processes. “Putting on formal clothes makes us feel powerful, and that changes the basic way we see the world,” says…

Did you know over 100 billion emails are sent and received each day?

And this is not just meaningless noise or spam. 61% of American workers claimed that email is “very important” to doing their job, according to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center. Email clearly plays a central role in our business lives, and it’s not going anywhere anytime…