COM660 v1

Borot, L. & Employment Support Center at Algonquin College. (2021). Be the boss of your career: A complete guide for students & grads. Pressbooks.

• Chapter 5: Career Management: Retain, Gain & Maintain: This chapter will help you understand the benefits of retaining employment, learn effective strategies to stay employed, assess areas for improvement, and enhance your job retention skills to support long-term career success.
• Chapter 6: International Job Seekers & Job Seekers with Disabilities: This chapter will help you navigate cultural adjustment as an international job seeker, understand Canadian employer expectations and job search differences, and identify effective strategies for disclosing a disability, including when and how to do so.

Gothelf, J. (2021). How to reimagine the second half of your career.  Harvard Business Review, 115–118.

• This article will help you strategically experiment with career directions by leveraging continuous learning to make informed career transitions and build a network of professional connections.

Poquet, O., & Laat, M. (2021). Developing capabilities: Lifelong learning in the age of AI.  British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(4), 1695–1708.

• This article will help you rethink lifelong learning in the AI age by exploring how digitalization and AI influence human interaction and decision-making, advocating a shift from human capital to human development, and using the capability approach to support continuous personal growth and value creation.

Berend Wierenga, Maciej Szymanowski, & Gerrit H. van Bruggen. (2024). Drivers of marketing career success.  Marketing Education Review, 34(1), 3–22.

• This article details the key success factors for marketing careers by exploring the roles of extraversion, independence, and experiential learning, while challenging conventional assumptions about conscientiousness and marketing education, and offering actionable insights for enhancing marketing curricula.