Business

There’s a little gem of a shop in Vancouver’s West End called The Soap Artisan. It’s where glorious scents of lavender, bergamot, geranium and all other essential oils would greet you as soon as you pop in the store.

Most people think that jobs are more “stable” than being an entrepreneur. Most people also think that entrepreneurship is an attitude or skill you are born with and cannot be taught.

Dahong Pilipino 2017, the Philippine business directory of B.C. listed four funeral homes offering a variety of funeral services aimed at their fast growing and aging Filipino clientele. Two ads even had photos of their Filipino representatives to help families prepare for the inevitable with “pay now, die later” instalment plans.

Canadian Filipinos raised in the Philippines may need to approach things differently if they want to succeed as managers in a Canadian workplace.

Vancouver is a coffee-crazed city. With the cool clouds and almost always rainy weather, it just makes so much sense for Vancouverites to need a cup of joe first thing in the morning and throughout the day.

In my previous articles, I introduced the concept of the “Gig Economy”: the increase of free-lance, contract, project, part-time and multiple-jobs work which is signaling a change in how we see “career”, work and the entire job-search process and employer/employee relationship.

To secure a job and succeed in the Canadian workplace, Filipinos will do well to take certain traditional Filipino traits to work and restrain a few.

In previous articles, I introduced the Gig Economy and how we can either choose or become forced to jump into it. The Gig Economy is the major trend in the world of employment and career life. It challenges our culture’s concepts of success and creates chaos around how we manage finances and time.