Here it is – Sean’s week covering the Toronto International Film Festival for Roots Canada. Those of you who had been following our blog know that it was a challenging week, but also very rewarding. In the episode, I tried to accurately convey the experience by covering both sides of the main issues. [...]

In case you missed it, here’s Sean’s interview on Fox & Friends broadcast August 18.

Turning generational quest into adventure:
Why career researchers love Sean Aiken
How do people make tactics to find and keep a job? How do they define their priorities? These questions are what career research is all about. Firms no longer make careers: how could they when it is impossible to plan the next semester? Our job as [...]

I had a great week working at Gus’ Pub in downtown Halifax this week. The clientele they have is quite eclectic. During the day, they will have customers who have been going there daily for 20 — 30 years. At night they bring in a much younger crowd of students because they have bands playing [...]

After weeks and weeks of waiting, the new episode of the One Week Job show is up! This episode follows Sean during his week at the Hespeler Animal Hospital in Cambridge, Ontario. He meets some amazing animals, helps out with health testing, and even tries his hand an dentistry.
Let us know what [...]

This week I will be working as a Bartender at Gus’ Pub in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
They are a family run business that has been operating for 46 years. Apparently they cater to quite a mix of characters: “Our customers describe us as an authentic bar with real character. This is no doubt because [...]

After coming in from Toronto on Monday night, we went straight to an overnight commercial shoot Cossette was filming downtown. It was a 30 second spot for one of their clients, Molson Ex. We arrived into town at about 2am, and the shoot was scheduled to go until 5am.
It was a really cool set up, [...]

After finishing up with Roots on Monday, we then drove straight to Montreal and arrived at about 2am in the morning. The ad agency I am working for this week, Cossette Communication-Marketing, was in the process of filming a TV commercial and so we joined the crew at the downtown location until almost 5am.
The good [...]

I would say that I learned the most out of my week at Roots than I have at any of previous One Week Jobs. It was a very interesting experience in that on one hand I had the opportunity to experience some great things and interact with some high profile celebrities, though at the same [...]

GEN Y JOURNEY: ONE-WEEK JOB
Finding the right career is a matter of constant reinvention
SEAN AIKEN
September 7, 2007
There I was, knee-deep in sludge, the sun beating down, flies swarming and sweat dripping off my forehead.
The stench was unpleasant, as was the muddy swamp water that slowly penetrated my supposedly waterproof coveralls.
What was I doing in [...]

Hey all, unless you’ve been following the blog, you’re probably wondering about the status of new One Week Job episodes. It looks like I should be getting my laptop back on Tuesday, so until then I’ve put together a brief update of our Film Festival reportage from Roots – view it in the player [...]

Sleep. Sleep is good. Unfortunately, we didn’t get much sleep last night (or at least I didn’t) as we’re currently staying at a friends’ place in Toronto on the edge of Chinatown.
Don’t get me wrong: it’s an incredible apartment right above a Scotiabank, with high ceilings and wide spaces. It’s just conveniently [...]

Hey everyone, just a quick note to ask for your help in promoting One Week Job. We’re currently (as in this second) gathering Digg votes for our article today on CNET. So if you’ve got a moment, it would be a big help if you went and dugg the article:
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Thanks for your help!
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Ian was able to call ASUS today and it looks like the computer is going to have to be sent away to get a new hard drive. They have told us that we should get the computer back by next week which would be great as we will be coming back through Montreal then.
In the [...]

It seems the worst has happened. Last night, while working on the upcoming episode of One Week Job, my laptop crashed. No word of warning.
For a fraction of a second I saw the “blue screen of death” and then all went black. The computer restarted but didn’t get very [...]