Ask Colleen!
Colleen Clarke is a career consultant, corporate trainer, and highly acclaimed seminar leader and public speaker in the areas of career development, transition and communication and networking who has helped over 8,000 people along their career journeys. She is also the author of Networking: How to Creatively Tap Your People Resources, and wrote a long running career column for the Metro Today Newspaper in Toronto.
Each week she will read your requests for advice on the work search and on-the-job issues and respond to as many as possible on this page. Check back often to read the concerns of your fellow job seekers and career navigators, and to see what a career expert advises.
Send your career dilemmas and requests for advice to Colleen Clarke at advice@monster.ca and she will answer as many of them as possible.
Please mention which province you are writing from, as this can often affect various aspects of career issues.