This Monday, I had the opportunity to participate in the Tap the Talent event at Dalhousie. It’s an event that’s put on by the management career services and this year had a great turn out of BMGMT, MBA, and BCOMM students.

The day started early with a 5 minute presentation by each of the 10 employers present at the event: Sunlife Financial, Frito Lay, Pepsi Bottling Group, Xerox, Bell Aliant, Fastenal, Enterprise, Canadian Tire, Labatt, and Investors Group. After the employers were wrapped up the students had the opportunity to take the floor. We each had 1 minute to give an “elevator pitch” or a mini speech aimed to essentially stand out amongst the other 25 or so students.

I was fortunate enough to be selected to interview with every company, which meant a fun but busy day. It was a great opportunity to meet some wonderful people from a variety of organizations and industries. It’s interesting what a day can do to change your perspective on your career path. I must say that Sunlife had a wonderful 5 minute presentation, and combined with a great interview with Suzanne from Sunlife has completely changed my opinions on financial planning as a career option.

I would recommend this event to any student. It’s a great way to meet some key people and to build on your job searching efforts. Big thanks to Management Career Services for organizing the event.

The Nova Scotia government announced on Tuesday that it will be implementing an alcohol ignition interlock program for individuals that have once lost their license for a DUI.

The idea of it is that the ignition of the car will not work until the driver passes a built in breathalyzer test (see the image below). The program comes into effect on September 30th, and for most of the people with an alcohol-related driving offense, it will be the only way to regain their driving rights. Personally I think it’s a great idea. The cost of entering the program is upwards of $2,000 but to regain a license, I’m sure many will be willing to pay.

It’s claimed to be the first of its kind in Canada, and is a great step in keeping our roads safer. As long as the government doesn’t try to force the program on the general public I think it will be a success. I’m sure someone will ask the question, “well if it’s working for these guys, we should force it on everyone and eliminate drunk driving.” That’s not an issue for this post though.

Will be kind of cool to see how things play out and how successful they are with it though, something to keep an eye on for sure.

For more info check out the alcohol ignition interlock site.

Thought I’d fire up a fantastic commercial that I’ve been trying to find on youtube for a while. Needless to say my latest search turned up what I was looking for.

While we’re watching McCain commercials, lets travel back to 1997 with one of their first commercials for this ever so lovely cake.

Since I’m back in school mode, expect more blogging.

Well after debating on a smart phone for quite some time, I finally made the decision.

My old Samsung phone broke in half over the weekend - although it still works, it’s quite hard to hold up to my ear - and since I was no longer in contract with Telus I thought it was time to get a new phone. I qualified for the free BB Pearl promotion and the great Student Fav 10 + data plan was only an extra $5 over what I was already paying for my last plan, so the transition was a no brainer.

This is day two with the phone and I haven’t really had a lot of time to play around with it, but I must say so far I’m definitely enjoying it. I commented on a previous post about the iPhone, how I would not like to be able to check email on the fly, thinking I would be too tied up. Well, I was so wrong. Being able to check my email on the fly is so convenient and I don’t feel out of touch when I’m on campus, needing to get home to make sure I didn’t miss any important emails.

Hopefully it will last as long as the Samsung did, that thing treated me very well.