Yasmin Fouladvand

In this comprehensive guide, we examine the top finance jobs of 2025, the best employers offering them, how each role is evolving, and the salary potential associated with them. You’ll also get insights into the specialized skills employers crave and the non-traditional routes—such as entrepreneurship and financial writing—you can pursue with a finance degree.

How to Network Like a Pro: Tips for Entrepreneurs — a concise guide to building powerful, authentic connections. Gain insight into honing your elevator pitch, using digital tools for seamless contact sharing, and mastering follow-ups to transform every conversation into a long-term relationship. A must-read for entrepreneurs looking to supercharge business growth.

Becoming a social media influencer seems, at first glance, like a dream career. Get paid to do what you love, collaborate with your favorite brands, talk to thousands (or even millions) of followers, and express yourself creatively online—what’s not to love? Yet, behind the highlight reels and polished images, the world of influencer marketing can be incredibly competitive and fraught with pitfalls. One slip-up can stall, or even end, an influencer’s budding career.

As we move into 2025, Toronto’s real estate market stands at a crucial intersection. Since 2020, conditions have swung from record-low interest rates and sharp price booms to steep mortgage hikes and a recent, more balanced phase. Today’s environment features interest rate cuts, robust immigration, evolving policies to combat affordability challenges, and fast-developing technological solutions. For buyers, investors, developers, and industry professionals, understanding how these factors interact is essential to seizing opportunities and mitigating risks.

Branding isn’t static ink on a billboard or a one-off Super Bowl ad anymore. It’s a fluid, evolving relationship between companies and their audiences—a multidimensional dialogue shaped by purpose, personalization, technology, cultural context, and community collaboration. We’ve entered an era where brand authenticity, societal impact, and the seamless integration of technology define success. This shift didn’t happen overnight; it’s the product of decades of changing consumer expectations, media fragmentation, and global market dynamics.

For decades, the United States dollar (USD) has been at the core of global finance, powering transactions from trade in oil to everyday cross-border payments. Now, a grouping named BRICS—formed originally by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later South Africa—has expanded in January 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This bloc, sometimes known as BRICS+, is evolving into a larger and potentially more influential cluster, with talk of a parallel international financial order that could place real pressure on the dollar’s status.