No images? Click here On Tuesday, Sept. 29, join us for a 30-minute fireside chat with Communitech VP of Talent, Academy and Future of Work, Simon Chan, and Patty McCord, the illustrious and inspiring former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix. Patty was leading her team in new and unprecedented ways before conversations about the Future of Work were happening in businesses trying to adapt. Netflix, with Patty heading up the Talent function, understood early on the need for companies to focus on their employee experience and culture to attract talent. Her team was responsible for developing the “Netflix Culture Deck”, arguably one of the most important documents to ever come out of Silicon Valley. Don’t believe us? Ask Sheryl Sandberg. Share your Future of Work and Learning storyAs always, we’re looking for stories and examples of initiatives underway within the community to help workers and workplaces get ahead of Future of Work and Learning trends. Send us a summary of your story and we will select a few to be profiled in future newsletters and on social to bring to life the great things already happening in the community. How to build an international tech office Growing your team sometimes means growing adding new office locations. Waterloo EDC is hosting "How to Build an international tech office", a free webinar on Thursday, Sept. 24 with Marcelo Cortes, co-founder and CTO of Faire and Zack Dugow, founder and CEO of Insticator. They will share their insights and lessons learned from opening international offices for their fast growing companies. Waterloo Co-operative Education provides stability to companies during uncertain timesThere’s one constant you can find at local business leaders like Stantec, SAP, and Faire and the fabled halls of Silicon Valley giants Google, Facebook, and Apple: University of Waterloo co-op students. Over on the David Johnston R+T Park Blog, they spoke with Ross Johnston, Executive Director, Co-operative Education, University of Waterloo on how the University's co-op program has adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Could Google disrupt the college degree?Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college. But what are the drawbacks? Office work could be changed forever With only a fraction of people returning to offices, could the pre-COVID workplace be changed forever? Are you ready to re-invent yourself? The career ladder has become the career web - are you ready to be a lifelong career switcher. Switchers are workers who makes an industry or role change in their careers. Even if you haven't made a switch yet, it’s only a matter of time before you’re forced to. Why not get ahead of it? |