BNN's Interview with Colleen. Watch the video! Unemployment is on the rise and the federal budget will be making billions available to unemployed Canadians. BNN looks at the best techniques for getting back into the work force if you've been laid off, or think you're in danger of being let go, with Colleen Clarke, career specialist and corporate trainer, Colleen Clarke & Associates.

• Assessing and improving communication
• Building better interpersonal relationships
• Developing strong teams
• Networking
• Career management and planning

Colleen has been enter-training audiences throughout Canada and the U.S. for over 16 years. When you are planning your next professional development session or an annual conference, Colleen offers a wide range of soft skill and career management courses and keynotes that will titillate, motivate, inspire and produce results for every audience.

Her style puts audiences at ease immediately. She is usually humorous, always educational and excels at getting to the meat of a topic with relatable, appropriate stories and examples. Her engaging manner easily holds the attention of a room of 600 or 10.

With 18 years of career counseling and 10 years of workplace coaching to her credit, she draws from real life situations and experiences. Whatever the level or demographic of your audience, Colleen guarantees to motivate and inspire them to action.

Managers need to know about "Are You Having an Emotionally Intelligent Life?"

Professional administrators love "Influencing Without Authority"

Accountants ,engineers and job seekers love "The Advice Call"

Municipalities love "The Respectful Workplace" and "Only Wet Babies Welcome Change" and "Stand Up and Wow Someone"

Associations love "Networking" – you pick the slant

University students love "Visibility Networking"

Articling students love "Business Etiquette"

Everybody loves "Why Can’t You Be More Like Me?"