Testimonials

One of my greatest career decisions was to work with Linda Jack of Career Smarts! Linda is one of the most gracious and generous professional career counsellors that any one could have. She has a natural way of guiding her clients to find their right career path. Her intelligence, experience, patience, business knowledge and dedication to her clients are first rate! My success has been directly impacted and influenced from working with Linda. I highly recommend Linda, and any one that has been fortunate to learn from her will be successful not only in their career but in life! Thank you Linda!

I came to CareerSmarts because I felt that my qualifications were not reflected in the job that I had. I would apply for jobs without ever hearing a response back. After 10 weeks of working with Lionel, I have had many job offers, including a position at three times my previous salary! I now feel more confident about my potential and I am able to consider a variety of options!

Linda took me through all the steps of getting back into the workforce. From truly learning where I came from, why I was here now, helping me find out where I wanted to go, to getting me moving in the right direction to success. Linda kept my spirits up during the tough search, she was my personal champion and genuinely cared about my progress. Linda is your personal coach for resumes, cover letters, job interviews, follow-ups, negotiating salaries to helping you celebrate the victory of finding a new career.

Lionel Desjardins ended up being more of a shrink than a career counsellor. I can't say enough positive about how much Lionel helped me... I often referred to him as Tony Robbins on steroids... He NEVER gave up on me. He helped me prepare for every interview and got me to focus on what were realistic expectations.

Linda is a brilliant career coach whose down to earth personality makes her a pleasure to work with. I first met Linda back in 2005 when I hired her to help me make a successful career transition from Engineering to Information Technology. Linda has always provided honest and sincere advice and played an huge role in motivating me to strengthen my resume writing, interviewing, networking and self-marketing abilities. I highly recommend her and CareerSmarts to anyone looking for help and advice regarding their career.

It's hard to be "brief" when it comes to Lionel! I met Lionel in 2006 and he became my career coach (before he opened CareerSmarts). Lionel's strengths are helping a person look at ALL of their experiences and talents and how to use them to advance their career. More importantly, he helped me really discover what I do best and encouraged me to focus on it. He was very patient and encouraging throughout this process, and I have to say that his coaching exceeded my expectations. I would have no hesitation recommending Lionel to anyone who is looking to discover the same in themselves.

Linda, in my excitement to get through a number of activities this week, I neglected to thank you for your time, patience and help during the past few months.  I've sent a response back on the offer today but in reality I don't believe there are any show stoppers to starting this new career.  I'll keep in toach and let you know how I'm doing.

Lionel is a very good listener. He helped me to understand what I needed to do to get my career in order. He was very patient in helping me to reorganize my resume and my career goal ambitions. Lionel's enthusiastic personality is infectious and gives the client the added motivation to succeed in their job search. With Lionel's support, I'm now looking forward to my new career in the communications industry

Hi Linda. How are you? Just wanted to let you know how everything with the new job is going. The company is amazing! Fantastic support and the training program has been phenomenal! The people I work with are great, my manager is awesome, and I'm having excellent calls with my new customers! I haven't met them all yet...still making my way across the territory. Everything is unbelievable. Just finished the sales period for a very important national trade show and I received very impressive feedback about my results.

Lionel I recall the people that have made a tremendous impact on my recovery and I am proud to count you in that group. You may never know much you helped me

Linda, thank for arranging the practice interview with Lionel. It was very helpful to me to have an objective individual take me through the paces of an interview and provide valuable feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Lionel is a very good listener. He helped me to understand what I needed to do to get my career in order. He was very patient in helping me to reorganize my resume and my career goal ambitions. Lionel's enthusiastic personality is infectious and gives the client the added motivation to succeed in their job search. With Lionel's support, I'm now looking forward to my new career in the communications industry

Linda, I wish to thank you for your help and guidance over the past few months. You helped me to remember who I am, how much I have to offer and how best to present myself. Above all, you helped me to open the door to where I had hidden my confidence. Thank you so much!

Lionel I recall the people that have made a tremendous impact on my recovery and I am proud to count you in that group. You may never know much you helped me.

Hello Linda, I just wanted to officially thank-you for helping me with my interview. I found that your tips and advice really helped me the day of the interview and I also felt a lot more confident after practicing with you. I got an offer for the job so I am really excited!

I Want to THANK YOU for all your help in getting my head straight and pointed in right direction.

Hi Lionel, Sorry for taking so much time to toach base with you. The last 3 weeks have been very busy training for my new job. I am now flying on my own! The job is very interesting and although the marketing plan is already set for the coming year, there will still be room for initiative.

Things are going amazingly well and I wanted to thank you for all your help and support in the past. This job was like it was dropped from heaven.

Again, thank you Linda. You’ve been instrumental in my achievements both through personal motivation and in giving me the opportunity to talk about things that I would normally have to keep bottled inside.

Things are going well and everyday is a learning experience. I am enjoying the new position and feel it will be a good fit for me.

Just a quick email as confirmation of my new job. Again, THANK YOU so much, the new resume was what sold them on the higher dollars, and the negotiating skills were what made that amount even higher. I have made a major step in my career that I could almost not even imagine a year ago. Now it's a reality, and I'm loving it.