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“Time Management”, a skill not just a behaviour

Time management is a skill every graduate must have and like all skills it must be learned. It doesn’t ‘just happen’. Hopefully you will have developed good organizational and time management skills while you are at school.

All employers are looking for candidates who have good time management skills and there is no better or more appropriate way to demonstrate them than during your job search and the interview process. You can show a potential employer you have these skills in many different ways:

1. Calling ahead to confirm your interview the day before the interview

2. Arriving 15 minutes ahead of your appointed interview time

3. Following up with a ‘Thank you’ note in a timely way after the interview

Simple behaviours? Yes.

Behaviours that will not go unnoticed.

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markewicken: Mark Wicken is a marketing professional with over 30 years of advertising, communications and strategic planning experience within the retail and packaged goods industries. He has been a senior member of agency management teams with both account and brand management responsibilities. His strengths have always been on innovative thinking, solid organization and strong interpersonal skills. Starting in the advertising agency industry, Mark held senior account management positions at several multinational agencies including Leo Burnett, Foster, Caledon, Vickers & Benson and Saffer Advertising, and has been responsible for the management of accounts like IBM, McDonald’s, Esso and General Motors. Mark moved from his agency roles to the Client side and held the position of Divisional Vice President of Marketing for Domino’s Pizza International and Director of Marketing for KFC, Hardee’s and Sbarro restaurants in the Middle East. In 2002 he established The Mark Wicken Group, a business specializing in executive search, training and consulting within the marketing, advertising and communications industries. In addition to executive search, Mark has devoted much of his lifetime to teaching, education and youth development. He is President of MusicFest Canada ‘The Largest Annual Music Festival in North America’ and has been an instructor at the International Academy of Design and The Toronto Film School since 1998. Mark graduated from The University of Toronto, took post-graduate studies at Northwestern University, and is married with two sons.