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Nour Mazloum, Marketing & Communications Officer at Kingston Economic Development has won the Economic Developers Council of Ontario’s (EDCO) President’s Award for 2021. The EDCO President’s Award recipient is selected by the sitting President to acknowledge the recipient’s contribution to EDCO that goes above and beyond. Mazloum has been an
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Kingston Economic Development Corporation (Kingston EcDev) has won a Gold Rank for its Queen’s Career Apprenticeship: Kingston, a project in the category of Partnerships with Educational Institutions from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) 2021 Excellence in Economic Development Awards Program. The honour was announced on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021,
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A made-in-Kingston program is getting set to launch for its third year. The 2021 Queen’s Career Apprenticeship: Kingston Program is the result of a partnership between Kingston Economic Development and the Queen’s University Faculty of Arts and Science. It aims to connect new graduates from the arts, humanities and social
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It has long been a paradox — employers want experience in a candidate before they’ll hire, but how does a new arts or humanities graduate earn that experience before they get a job? A program at Queen’s University, preparing for its third year, seems to have found the the answer.
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It’s arguably one of the most challenging times in a person’s life, and a time that can crucial to the trajectory of their career: those first few years following post-secondary education. It’s a time when many recent graduates find themselves in limbo, floating in that place where potential employers are
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