by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 7, 2020 | blog, Bullying & Harassment , Career Advice
Less is More: Maintaining Workplace Boundaries Maintaining boundaries in the workplace doesn’t come naturally to everyone. What’s common sense to one person can be like learning a foreign language to another. With four generations now working together in the same...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 22, 2020 | blog, Career Advice, Leaders & Executives , Recent Graduates
It’s counter-intuitive. Your PhD should be an invincible asset, yet without some finesse, it can become what this science-career website says is more like a problematic hiring detriment. Over 6,000 people graduate with PhD degrees in Canada every year. Only 10-20...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Feb 8, 2020 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
Have you ever been lured into accepting a promising job that ended up being entirely different once you got started? It’s a common concept that cuts across domains. It’s called ‘the workplace bait-and-switch.’ Bait-and-switch originally described retail...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jan 11, 2020 | blog, Career Advice, Workplace Culture
As a Work and Business Psychologist (officially known as an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist), I have seen countless pensive looks on people’s faces as they say some version of: “But you’re a psychologist – doesn’t that mean you need to see people for...
by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Nov 30, 2019 | blog, Career Advice
Imagine you’re online, looking for something meaningful, worthy of a real commitment, and there it is! You find the perfect match that you’ve been waiting for. Of course, you want to respond right away thinking this is just too good to pass up. Then you take a beat …...
