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Getting the job you want! Theresa Casarin and Jade Yourth of Creative Niche share their tips on resume writing and getting your online profile in shape for success. Theresa Casarin, VP, Talent, Canada theresa@creativeniche.com Jade Yourth, Digital Marketing Specialist jade@creativeniche.com Creative Niche is an innovative staffing, recruitment and executive search firm. Making connections since 2002 with over 14,000 placements. Recruitment is purely in the digital marketing, design and data innovation. Their clients include SapientRazorfish, Thomson Reuters, OpenText, Kinetic Cafe, Deloitte, RBC and MTV. A good exercise to do before writing your resume is the 16 personalities website test. It is recommended that you start with a clear head. Use the first answer you gravitate to instead of what you think you should say. Be brutally honest with yourself. You will discover your strengths and weakness. You will end-up in the right place to be. The Purpose of the Resume: • ...

There needs to be a balance between a great UX and making money for the business. Kaye Puhlmann Co-founder & Head of Growth at Storybird Inc. Previous work experience includes: VP Creative at Critical Mass Creative Director at Blast Radius Instructor, VFS Foundation Visual Art and Design at Vancouver Film School Instructor, Graphic Design at Sheridan and is also a former alumnus where she studied Graphic Design and Computer Graphics. Kaye returns to Sheridan College to talk about some of the challenges with Storybird Inc. A story in 3 parts - Design, Analytics and Design. She started work on this project 10 years ago. It started out as a publishing platform for children in schools. Inspiring students to write with the help of pictures and making a book. Some children jumped 3 grad levels by using this platform to write. It is now used by all ages for all different subjects. Storybird lets anyone make visual stories. It curates artwork from illustrators and animators a...