Everyone is interested in what people do for work and how they got there. Engage your audience with keynotes, presentations, talks or moderated panels that bring career ideas to life with real stories. Mark Franklin, and other CareerCycles Associates are available to deliver engaging talks to your group.
As host of Career Buzz radio, Mark Franklin has interviewed 100+ people whose career stories finally led to satisfying places. These stories reveal a career secret: who you are MATTERS! Hear inspiring career stories, full of twists and turns, that illustrate a method Mark uses as a Career Counsellor with his firm Career Cycles to empower clients of all ages in their choices. Learn how to organize career information from your own stories as you get started in your career, then use this knowledge like a compass to direct your “intentional exploration,” an exhilarating process that allows the perfect fit to find you.
Past keynotes, presentations, talks
The Secret to Finding Career Satisfaction. George Brown College, Career Launch Event, Toronto, April 2008 (concurrent session)
Career Buzz Radio. Cannexus career conference, Montreal, April 2008 (concurrent session)
Internationally Educated Professionals, career conference, Toronto, November 2007 (panel moderator)
Effective Job Searching for Internationally Educated Engineers, Pakistan University Alumni Association, September 2007, Toronto (presentation)
Career Options for Engineers. Women in Engineering Advisory Council (WEAC), career conference, Toronto, November 2006 (presentation)
How to Combine Powerful Career Conversations and Outdoor Activity to Deliver Life Changing Results. NATCON career conference, Ottawa, January 2006 (concurrent session)
Standing at the Crossroads, Trying to Read the Signs. Heading in the right direction conference, Yellowknife, November 2005 (keynote)
"Thank you so much for agreeing to speak for us again! Your presentations are always great and people learn a lot from them." -Amy Schindler, Volunteer Chair, Executive Committee, Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET) Alumni Association, Toronto Chapter
"Interesting stories, motivating, Mark appears to love his work, good to see!" -Tracy Fardy, CP Consultant/CP Special Events Coordinator, Ontario Works
"Lots of variety, you know your stuff, great examples of clients, I like the approach. I liked that it was real." -Connie Korchak, Manager of Manitoba Career Project.
"Informative, motivational!" -Bilal Aslam, Employment / Settlement Counselor, Brampton Neighbourhood Resource Centre
"Shows innovation, genuine caring, interesting. I liked doing the exercises and hearing stories. Thank you!" Christina Buzzi, Lakehead University
"Good model, actually excellent. Great examples." Elaine O'Reilly, Canadian Career Development Foundation
"I just wanted to thank you once again for participating in Career Launch 2008. Your session was our busiest session of the day ... [We] had students approach us to let us know that they found your session really helpful and motivating. On a personal note, I found the part of the session I was able to sit in on to be really great and the use of real stories and the career cycles model to be an innovative and useful way of presenting the career development process." -Sue Furs, MA, Counsellor, Counselling and Career Coaching, Student Affairs, George Brown College
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