Who: Massive Damage

What: Founded by Ken Seto and Garry Seto, Massive Damage is focused on building next generation location-based mobile games.

Where: Toronto, Ontario

What Makes Them Awesome: They’re working on a new highly anticipated game – Please Stay Calm – that bills itself as a “located based zombie survival game”.

Check out the trailer below:

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To win a job interview, you need to stand out. Giving your prospective employer a good sense of who you are in your application is a great start.

However, winning an interview is only the first step. In order to put yourself ahead as a strong candidate, you need to win them over during the interview as well.

An interview is a two-way conversation. Far too many job seekers are content to answer the employer’s questions and try to convince them why they’re the best candidate, based on their credentials. To stand out, you need to do more.

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Week In Review:

Toronto - PHP Developer (Computer Games) Details / Apply
Toronto - Associate, Strategy and Business Development (Telecommunications) Details / Apply
Toronto - Account Manager - Digital (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Toronto - Bilingual Events Coordinator (Computer Games) Details / Apply
Toronto - Content Intern (Internet) Details / Apply
Vancouver - HR Manager (Market Research) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Talent/Human Resources Mgr. (Computer Software) Details / Apply
Montreal - Program Manager (Computer Software) Details / Apply
Montreal - Project Coordinator (Computer Games) Details / Apply
Montreal - Analyst, Marketing Research (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply

For the full rundown, log-in to Vestiigo.com

Some weekend reading
Career Savvy: Turning the Tables on Your Potential Employer
Career Savvy: Vestiigo Ultimate Candidate Contest
TED Talk: Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb

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Behind every candidate, there’s a great story.

To win an interview, you need to stand out. That’s why Vestiigo.com wants to help you become the Ultimate Candidate.

We’ve recently launched two premium accounts aimed to help you get in for an interview faster. To help you get there, we’re giving away complimentary three-month memberships in our Ultimate Candidate contest.

One lucky winner will receive a three-month Boost membership, which includes application reviews, personalized career search help, and access to Career Pages, an innovative online application tool that helps you put your best face forward. Two other lucky winners will receive complimentary StandOut membership, which allows you to create unlimited Career Pages.

To enter, visit our Contest Page at Vestiigo.com/contest. It’s simple. 

You could become the Ultimate Candidate with Vestiigo.com. What are you waiting for? Enter now.

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After some searching, you’ve landed a job interview and started your preparations for the big day. There’s a lot more to the interview process than jumping through multiple hoops set out by the employer.

During the interview, Generation Y job seekers should take the time to ask their potential employer the right questions to determine if the opportunity is a good fit for them. After all, the right fit is mutually beneficial for both the employer and the employee. From the employee perspective, the right fit in a given job means that you have chosen an environment that will bring the best out of you and will help you succeed as a young professional.

In developing your questions for your potential employer, you should ask ones that help zoom in on the following key areas:

The Boss
The Team
The Job

It goes without saying that it’s important to get as much information possible about the company. However, working for an awesome company will matter less to you if your boss and/or your job, and/or your teammates totally suck.

Here are some sample questions that you can ask your potential employer based on the key areas outlined above.

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Week In Review:

Toronto - Project Manager (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Toronto - Associate Director of Recruitment Services (Telecommunications) Details / Apply
Toronto - Account Manager - Digital (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Toronto - HR Project Advisor (Computer Games) Details / Apply
Toronto - Business Operations Analyst (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Account Executive - Outside (Internet) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Program Specialist (Education) Details / Apply
Montreal - Snr. Coordinator, Sponsorships & Event Mkt. (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Montreal - Manager, Product Insights (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Montreal - Business Development Manager (Computer Software) Details / Apply

For the full rundown, log-in to Vestiigo.com

Some weekend reading
Career Savvy: Stay or Go: How to Know When it’s Really Time to Leave Your Job
Career Savvy: A Standout Application
TED Talk: Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations

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Using a job application to actually prove to an employer how good you are in your role may seem like a meta impossibility, but that’s exactly what Matt Epstein has accomplished.

Touting himself as a product marketer and digital strategist, with “a moustache that makes angels weep,” Epstein has created the ultimate online application on several platforms in his quest to join the Google product marketing team.

In his now-famous video, Epstein assures viewers that he’s more than a man with a strip of fake facial hair. In between shots of scotch, underwear lounging scenes, pedicures, and a display of the finer things in life, Epstein humourously engages his audience with his credentials while convincing the Google team he can add value to their business.

Beyond the video, Epstein has leveraged Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a personal website called GooglePleaseHire.Me (oh, and there’s also the giant cardboard cutout of himself he FedExed to Google). Within two days his video had over 90,000 views, and he had 60 interview requests, stories on major news blogs and web sites, and phone calls with hiring managers from Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

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Week In Review:

Toronto - Java Software Developer (Computer Software) Details / Apply
Toronto - Dealer Business Manager (Telecommunications) Details / Apply
Toronto - Account Manager (Computer Software) Details / Apply
Toronto - Supply Chain Clerk (Internet) Details / Apply
Toronto - Analyst- Data and Analytics Specialist (Internet) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Web Developer/Graphic Designer (Education) Details / Apply
Ottawa - Customer Account Manager (Computer Software) Details / Apply
Montreal - PR Manager, Canada (Computer Games) Details / Apply
Montreal - Manager, Financial Systems (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Montreal - Community Game Representative (Computer Games) Details / Apply

For the full rundown, log-in to Vestiigo.com

Some weekend reading
Career Savvy: 3 Tips to Help You Get Over the “Overqualified” Label
Career Savvy: Millennials @ Work
TED Talk: Seth Godin on standing out

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While there’s much in the way of articles and popular press coverage about the Millennial Generation, also known as Generation Y, when it comes to finding, hiring and retaining them companies are still catching up.

Some challenge the significance and importance of distinguishing different generations, particularly when it comes to recruitment strategies, but the evidence suggests that the differences should be taken seriously.

Generation __?

It’s important to identify the four main living generations today. Aside from the Millennial generation, who were born after 1980, the other three are commonly held to be:

Generation X – this is the generation born after the baby boom ended and covers people born between 1965 through to 1980.

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Week In Review:

Toronto - Bilingual Grants Management Coordinator (Research) Details / Apply
Toronto - Application Management Specialist (Information Tech. & Services) Details / Apply
Toronto - Business Development Associate (Market Research) Details / Apply
Toronto - Market Research Analyst (Market Research) Details / Apply
Toronto - Software Developer (Internet) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Account Mgr. (Market Research) Details / Apply
Vancouver - Project Manager (Information Tech. & Services) Details / Apply
Montreal - Coordinator, Everyday Retail Partnerships (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Montreal - Analyst, Mkt. Research (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply
Montreal - Mgr, Strategic Development and Innovation (Marketing & Advertising) Details / Apply

For the full rundown, log-in to Vestiigo.com

Some weekend reading
Career Savvy: Me Inc. How to Create a Distinctive Personal Brand
Career Savvy: The 4 Steps To Decision-Making
TED Talk: Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

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We recently featured an article that examined the power of integrative thinking in “The Opposable Mind on Problem-Solving”. This is the second installment in a series that looks to distill the key points that Roger Martin puts forward in his book “The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win through Integrative Thinking” and what lessons can be drawn from it to help us in our decisions.

We’ve examined how powerful integrative thinking can be, but how do we approach decisions today? What is the actual process of thinking and deciding?

How We Make Decisions
We might not realize it, but the process of thinking and deciding are made up of four key areas:

Salience – what features do I see as important
Causality – how do I make sense of what I see
Architecture – what tasks will I do in what order
Resolution – how will I know when I’m done

For example, consider you’re looking at buying a new car and after some discussion you’ve narrowed it down to a Ford, Toyota or Honda. From here you’ll consider a series of other questions, such as:

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