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.
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….
The idea of a hacker usually conjures up an image of a dark web cybercriminal for many people, but the mainstream notion of a hacker can be misleading. In addition to malicious hackers, there are also ethical hackers who use the same skills to test and improve the security of…
The following is an article from the Ottawa Business Journal discussing cybersecurity and the role that Willis College and Industry are playing in filling the talent gap.
For successful entrepreneurs, having a great idea is only the beginning. In the time between coming up with a brilliant concept and establishing a profitable business with long-term prospects, a lot can go wrong. Even the best ideas can struggle to gain a foothold in today’s competitive marketplace if they…
When it comes to developing a new app, it can be difficult to know not only where to start, but also how to see your project through to a fully realized launch. There are many working components that influence the planning and execution of a functional app which both suits…
