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Talent Acquistion
May 28, 2019

Dear Candidate

The job hunt is far from easy. Many large companies use ATS to scan resumes for keywords. This means there’s a good chance your application will be sent to the trash before a human ever sets eyes on it. So, how can you stand out? I’m so glad you asked..
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Stories & Insights
Hanisah Hilmi

A day in the life of a junior software developer

In the winter of 2020, I graduated from university with a degree in computer science. As any 2020 grad will tell you, it was a weird and daunting year to enter the workforce.

Culture
Kaily Hirsch

We are proud to be a 2022 Best Workplace™ for Women

The tech world has a reputation for being a bit of a boy’s club. Statistics do show that more men than women work in the industry, but these numbers don’t tell the whole story. While their ranks may be small, women's contributions to technology have been anything but.

Culture
Tamaryn de Kock

What we’ve learned about our office culture after two years out of the office

Once upon a time, it was a beautiful thing to wake up early in the morning, get bundled up in warm clothes and commute to work. That may sound like sarcasm. How could anyone enjoy waking up early in the morning and heading to the office in the dead of Montreal's winter? But, it's the truth. That’s just how great our office culture was.

CEO
Jon Ruby

Sometimes keeping it simple IS stupid: Building a framework for handling complex problems

A few weeks back, I read something that irritated me. I was scrolling through a newsfeed and passed an article titled “Complexity doesn’t exist.” It was a well-intentioned headline, but for me, it was like that itch you can’t reach in the middle of your back, or something stuck in your teeth.

Stories & Insights
Linda Cumberbatch

Lessons learned from 50 years of toiling away

When I started my career, the goal was to stay with the same company for the rest of your working life. You fought to hold on to your job, even if you didn’t really like it. After a couple of bad work experiences early in my career, I found a company that treated me like a person, with appreciation and respect. Saying yes to a job at Jonar was the best decision I have made. That was 26 years ago.

Stories & Insights
Francesca Rünger-Field

From pizza-making to Product Marketing

After graduation, desperate for a job, I fell into the hot, sweaty, cheesy world of pizzas. While I enjoyed four years of the carb hustle, I always had an appetite for flexing my creative muscles in a professional environment.

CEO
Jon Ruby

Why being an asshole doesn't make you a good boss

When I first started managing people, the common wisdom was that the less certainty someone had in their job, the more that fear would drive them to produce. I was told that familiarity bred contempt and that I should never open up to my employees.

Culture
Ayleen Siero

Lessons learned: Hiring humans, not resources

From the innocent age of 3 to the adult age of 23, I was in a serious relationship with the school system. But with graduation lurking around the corner, I knew it was time to embark on a new adventure.

CEO
Jon Ruby

Resilience: How a year filled with personal challenges gave me an opportunity to be better

A couple of years back, I had a rough year. During this year of hell, I was fairly certain that the universe had firmly fixed its rectum directly above my head. And the universe had taken a laxative. In other words, the shit just kept on coming.

Culture
Kimberly Lamontagne

Tales of an Office-less Office Coordinator

In an endless stream of administrative job postings, one entitled “Office Experience Coordinator aka Happiness Hero” stood out, especially amidst a global pandemic. But, what is an office experience coordinator supposed to coordinate if we’re not experiencing life in the office?

Stories & Insights
Eva Terriault

Leading with Impostor Syndrome

This is the story of how, just six months after graduation, I became the Senior Manager of a team of 10 business analysts - all of whom had more experience than I did. As if that wasn’t daunting enough, there was a person on the team who constantly doubted my capabilities and underestimated the value I brought. That person was me. And that's how my relationship with impostor syndrome began.

Stories & Insights
Alejandro de Majo

"I took a break from coding to write this." A Software Developer's story

At some point in your life, you’re going to need a plumber. Or a doctor. Or maybe even an electrician. They provide us with services we can’t do without: running water, life-saving medication, or the ability to see when it gets dark. But what about software developers?

Stories & Insights
Nolan Paiuk

Not your typical Mad Man: How a marketing student found purpose at an ERP company

Hi, I’m on the marketing team at Jonar, and I’m new to this whole adulting thing. Not to be melodramatic, but I woke up the other day and it was September… and I was going to work. As a recent university graduate, it felt like the first day of the rest of my life.

CEO
Jon Ruby

What Hockey Goalies and Air Force Pilots can teach us about adapting to change in business

For the sake of this article, I am going to assume that I don’t need to convince you about the importance of managing change. Instead, I am going to explore how we can do it.

Stories & Insights
Francesca Rünger-Field

Navigating catastrophes: What to do when life (or event organizers) throw you a curveball

Following our recent visit to Austin, Texas, where we were exhibiting at a tradeshow, we had every intention of writing a positive, fun-filled and informative article. But this is real life, and sometimes things go wrong.

Stories & Insights
Aspen Murray

Redefining Social Business: How working for a software company taught me the difference between theory and practice

I have a tremendous passion for social business and entrepreneurship and wish to pursue it as my lifelong career path. But, right now, I also happen to be doing a marketing internship for a software company called Jonar. At surface level, these two facets of my life couldn’t appear more distinct.

CEO
Jon Ruby

The robustness of the Retrospective: An unexpected and mainly undiscussed outcome of scrum

I am not writing this as an ode to extoll the virtues of Scrum - those have been thoroughly covered by everyone else. I want to focus on one part of the Scrum: The Retrospective.

Stories & Insights
Mhairi Cannon

Social Sciences and Business: What can Anthropologists bring to the boardroom?

Remember when “being connected” referred to a human relationship rather than a wi-fi signal? While we can’t deny the many advantages of being technologically connected, preserving the human bond means more than just hitting enter on a keyboard.

Culture
Nurit Aizenstros

The devil is in the details: How to build a happy corporate culture

Corporate culture doesn’t just happen. There are a million tiny everyday details that go into making people feel like they’re part of something bigger. Establishing a positive culture requires people who care about people. I’m one of those people.

Talent Acquistion
Celine Harwood

The different stages of dating (interning) at Jonar

People don’t go on a first date expecting a wedding proposal. Well, not most people. So, why do we expect a similar lifelong commitment in the workplace?

Culture
Sean Farrell

Onboarding at Jonarrrrgh

Some months ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my account, and nothing online of interest to me anymore, I thought I should endeavor to return to the world of the working and the paid. With resumé in hand, often virtually if not literally, I set about seeking my next turn as an office mercenary.

Staff Activities
Celine Harwood

Tuesday morning staff meetings @ Jonar

What did you want to be when you grew up? I dreamed of being a summer camp counselor. I never did end up becoming one - the patience and energy required to work with crazy kiddos faded in my twenties. I chose the realm of Human Resources, instead.

Stories & Insights
Steph Gravel

What my business degree hasn't taught me about business

I write this article, dear reader, to share perhaps the most significant piece of advice I have come to realize after almost three years into business school. The truth is, things I should know how to do, I don’t.

Culture
Spencer Albert

Reflections on a red stapler: How office life shattered the illusions of Office Space

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!” – Peter Gibbons

Stories & Insights
Tamaryn de Kock

A Beautiful Failure: A Champion’s Mindset

I ran through the presentation more than a million times in my head over the weekend. The presentation did not go according to plan. Now I’m in the kitchen. We’re discussing how poorly the presentation and group activity went (and when I say “we”, I mean “they”). I’m not really taking part. Just listening.

Culture
Tamaryn de Kock

Where misfits fit

Everyone has their own reasons for being here at Jonar. We’re all driven and motivated by different things. Some of us want to have an impact. Some of us want to try new things. But all of us share something more fundamental – the need to belong.

Culture
Kayley Lankinen

Confessions of a formerly disgruntled intern

Throughout my academic career, getting excellent marks was my number one priority. That was until the prospect of finishing my degree started to loom large. Suddenly, I wasn’t working towards being on the right end of the grading curve. Instead, I was thinking about starting my career. And that is a whole new ball game.

Culture
Beth Ruby

My journey of unlearning: Making the transition from a big company to a small one

I have worked for large companies my entire career. For more than a decade, I had access to amazing health benefits, IT teams who magically showed up and fixed my computer problems, and loads of perks like unlimited paper clips and muffins at meetings. But for some crazy reason, I gave it all up.

Culture
Tamaryn de Kock

We're proud to be party crashers

Whether it’s in the workplace or in our social life, we all just want to be like the cool kids. At one time or another, we’ve all been preoccupied with the idea that someone, somewhere, is having a better time, making more money, or leading a more exciting life than us.

Stories & Insights
Linda Cumberbatch

We came in like a wrecking ball: Why we destroyed traditional departmental silos

Over the years, I’ve worked for a number of companies that discouraged, and even forbade, the inter-mingling of departments. Inter-mingling... It sounds so naughty.

Stories & Insights
Farid Rafiei

Facing an untenable opportunity: Advice for the professional immigrant

You are a professional in your homeland. But, you need more space. You need more air to breathe. You know that you have something important to share and you have the strength to embrace change. So, one day you decide to immigrate.

Culture
Tamaryn de Kock

Millenials suck. Get over it.

You’ve whined. You’ve moaned. You’ve blabbed on about how we, the millennial generation, are lazy, entitled, and disloyal. But unless you can overcome the linear nature of time, it’s about time you got off your high horse and found something new to complain about.

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