Willis College offers a career-focused approach to adult education, enabling graduates to transition into careers in business, technology, and healthcare. Over the years, this adult private career college has played a major role in seeing more than 150,000 graduates, leading successful lives in Canadian communities and around the world.
With the threat of cyber attacks on the rise, governments, businesses, and other organizations are increasingly realizing the value of cyber security professionals. Canadian organizations of all sizes need cyber security talent to keep personal, financial, and other sensitive data secure. The growing importance of cyber security has created an…
The idea of starting your own business is exciting, especially if you want to be your own boss, but getting a startup off the ground and turning a profit can be tricky, even for seasoned professionals. No matter how good or creative their ideas are, many startups still face certain…
In this video Willis CSA Graduate and Military Veteran Jean-Francois (Jeff) Provost shares his experience with the CSA and VFTP programs and discusses the path that brought him to his successful career in Cybersecurity with IBM.
If you’re new to Canada or are considering moving here, you’ll likely need to secure stable and well-paying employment quickly. However, landing a job in a new country can be challenging. You may be unfamiliar with the work culture, you may not have many professional contacts in Canada and employers…
There are certain images that generally come to mind when thinking of a typical hacker: a dark room, a computer madly running through lines of code, and someone hunched over their laptop as they type a mile a minute. Our idea of hackers is often informed by how the media,…
The following is from the latest Career Connections Magazine created by our friends at the National Career Colleges Association ( http://www.nacc.ca ). This article discuses the challenges of keeping education instep with the needs of industry – how being able to dynamically adjust curriculum content to keep synchronized with industry requirements is…
Co-operative education is a learning strategy that allows students to gain hands-on experience in their field by completing a short-term work placement with a local employer as part of their training program. A co-op can be a great opportunity for students hoping to put their training to work in the…
Personal Support Workers (PSWs) play an essential role in Ontario’s healthcare system. While they’re sometimes employed in hospitals, where they can help nurses manage the personal care needs of elderly patients, they’re more commonly employed in long-term care facilities and private homes, where they tend to the needs of elderly…
One of the most important skills that students learn at business college is how to craft and deliver a compelling pitch. The specific form a pitch takes is likely to depend on the context. It could be anything from a sixty-second summary delivered quickly in an elevator to a half-hour…
Cyber Women project looks at narrowing the gender gap in cyber defence By Rima Aristocrat and Susanne Cork For generations, women were discouraged from considering the skilled trades as career or vocational options. Subtly or not-so subtly, they were guided away from jobs that required physical strength or endurance….
