Working at Google? Free lunches? A six figure salary? Ability to work from home? These are all “work conditions”, or formally known as “hygiene factors”. And I’m here to tell you that cannot provide you job satisfaction. They can only prevent dissatisfaction. That means that, if you didn’t have these things: you would complain about them. So what can give …
Featured on the TRSM Co-op Website
As a former leader of the Co-op Students’ Association I always advocated for co-op an excellent career option for other students. I did 3-4 class talks throughout the year. So I was called in to be profiled. https://www.ryerson.ca/trsm-co-op/student-profiles/Ryan-Ing/ My top reasons to choose co-op (1) Discover what your dream job is by exploring mulitiple companies, in different roles, in varying industries. I explored Financial, Retail, and …
2017 – The Year I Taught Myself Investing & Trading
Me: Hi, I placed an order to buy to buy one share of IBM but the order is not going through!! Questrade Helpline: Sir it’s only 830am, the stock market doesn’t open until 930am. Me: Oops!! Wow, the things they don’t teach you in business school 😳 I believe that everything in life is a skill. If you are unsatisfied with …
Featured on the Business Career Hub Co-op Booklet
I was invited for a photoshoot on November 2017 which was published June 2018 🙂
Featured in the Globe & Mail Nov 2017
On November 7, 2017, I was published in Canada’s national newspaper. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/business-students-biggest-sales-job-was-himself/article36851067/ PDF version: Wonder how I got published in the newspaper? Well.. there’s really no shortcut but hard work… I emailed every single news outlet I could think of and tried to show them value. I.e. Here’s a story that’s going viral and you can be the first to …
End of IBM Summit Internship
I never win those case competitions at school – but here is a competition I thought we had a fair chance at. We presented to the President of IBM last week and won first place. I made the most of EVERY opportunity this internship had to offer. I wore a suit & tie every single day. I volunteered to run …
Summit Intern Interview on TalentEgg.ca
I was contacted by Julien Simoes (the recruiter mentioned in the video) to share some my experiences as an intern at IBM in a short interview. Read here: talentegg.ca/2017/07/28/ibm-summit-intern/
An Inspirational Video to Wrap Up The Journey
Over the past 6 months I taught myself how to use Adobe Premiere to create the video below. I couldn’t think of a better way to express the journey from Summer 2016 until now. VIDEO URL: facebook.com/RyanIng/posts/101 People don’t believe me when I tell them it took 50 hours of editing. It really did. Every subtitle, is handmade, every photo resized, …
Persistence: Applying to IBM’s Summit Sales Program A Second Time
If I learned one thing from working in sales, it’s that persistence is key. Sometimes you are the right person, but simply are reaching out at the wrong time. You can’t give up on your first attempt. I dedicate this photo to everyone who has applied to the same job twice. Bonus points if the job website still has your …
Brian Tracy: A Great Personal Development Author
There are a million personal development books out there these days, so it’s hard to sort the gems from the fluff. A heuristic to solve this is: find authors who were the pioneers of their disciplines, and have written books that stood the test of time. Brian Tracy (1944-) is like the Jedi Master (grey hair included) of self improvement books …