Scott Tavener, Associate Creative Director at Edelman, provides some guidance to a student looking to take a creative and innovative path to a creative and innovative career!

Taruna Kaur, SMB Solutions Sales Lead, Business Applications at Microsoft, offers a view of what’s to come in the technology sector in response to the question: “What kind of jobs are related to the technology field now and how will this change 10 to 20 years from now?”

Pavita Phonsavath, a supervisor at Deloitte Canada, describes what her main responsibilities are as a consultant and the academic path she took that led to her current work at Deloitte.

Anthony Au, Senior Manager Engineering & IP Cores Design for Rambus, advises a student interested in a career in engineering.

Dante Vertolli, Innovation Delivery Manager at Cadillac Fairview, answers two questions: “What do you do when you come up with new ideas?” and ““What advice would you give to your Grade 9 self?”

Jude Vethanayagam, Global Director of Corporate Quality Audit at Apotex, gives some sage advice on the skills needed for a career in health/medicine.

Ronnie Patel, Implementation Director for Ceridian, describes what his job entails.

Katharine Parsons, CRCC Agent at Canadian Tire Financial Services, addresses the question: “If we as young people are going to be doing jobs that don’t even exist yet, how do we prepare for our future?”

Travis Howard, Maintenance Execution Manager at Bruce Power, responds to a question about the many types of jobs and careers available in the skilled trades and one about how and when a student can know what their career path should be.

Jon Knowles, Investment Analyst with Fidelity Canada, answers questions from a student wanting to know what skills are needed to become an investment banker.

William Graham, a supervisor, coach and mentor of the design & construction team at Toronto Hydro, provides a passionate response to what a job in the skilled trades is like.

Ula Jibrini, Audit Senior at Deloitte, answers a question about what a typical day is like at Deloitte.

Christine Chea, Director, Research & Innovation at Pearson Canada, shares her insight about how to best collaborate for innovation.

Toronto Hydro, a long-time host to Grade 9 students on Take Our Kids to Work Day, has shared a ton of great video content about exciting careers in skilled trades, engineering, information technology, finance, regulatory & legal services, HR and communications. Read more.

SAFE Work Manitoba shares some startling research about young workers’ willingness to take on unacceptable risks to get a job. Learn more about their findings and how parents and educators can support students entering the workforce on their right to a safe workplace.

Noah Aiken-Klar and Mark Beckles have helped build RBC’s $500-million commitment to invest in the future of work, especially for BIPOC and barriered youth, from the ground up. RBC Future Launch, a ten-year program that launched in 2016, marks the largest community commitment RBC has made to address a single significant social issue.

Principal Karen Hudson shares the details of Auburn Drive High School’s Africentric curriculum and the group of students who have seen their lived experience reflected and respected in their educational experience for the first time.

Reona Brass speaks about Indigenous culture courses, social justice movements, and the need for allies to ‘do the work’ to dismantle systemic inequities that Indigenous students face.

Tricia Berry’s mandate when she joined NB’s Department of Education and Early Childhood Development was to do no less than transform career education across the province to the latest international best practices. Here’s how she and her colleagues went about doing it.

As Indigenous Education Consultant for Prairie Valley School Division in Saskatchewan, Reona Brass and her colleagues help foster connections between students, schools and communities, and 14 Nakota, Dakota, Cree and Anishinaabe First Nations of the area, integrating Indigenous culture and ways of knowing into the K-12 curriculum across the school division.

The Global Innovation Field Trip is back! Join us on July 9 – 10 for the second live 24-hour event. Over 100 innovation presenters (from age 5 to adult) from more than 15 countries will be demonstrating their innovative projects and ideas.

During the COVID-19 school closures, Huron-Perth Catholic DSB took the time to build community, culture and trust as they managed the transition to distance learning across the rural school district and set people up for long-term success.

What does Pembina Trails School Division’s online high school, InformNet, share in common with penicillin? Hear from Ted Fransen about how an existing but under-used technology became key to the transition to distance learning during COVID-19.

Student essays take on topics as diverse as successfully completing a 10k run, to losing a best friend, to experiencing violence at the hands of a first love.

Luc Lerminiaux writes about how teamwork has been transformative and how new opportunities for equity and inclusion emerged as some of the “unintended benefits” of making the switch to virtual ways of working and teaching.