Two teams of eight students were tasked with coming up with an innovative but usable campaign to help TalentEgg get the message across to employers—our potential clients—that TalentEgg.ca is where students want to be when they’re researching and executing their job hunts.
Conferences offer lots of opportunities for two things: learning and connecting. If you are preparing to go to graduate school, conferences are a smart way to get engaged with the larger academic community. Here are some strategies for making the most of your time at the conference.
The moment you graduate (even a little before, actually), your name pops up on the alumni list of your university or college. But your affiliation with the school can get you more than a degree or diploma — they come along with numerous and exciting perks that benefit both your social life and your career.
The skills acquired while shooting free throws and jump shots will be transferred beyond the lines of the basketball court and into the workplace.
As university degrees and college diplomas become more common, it is often a student or recent grad’s on- and off-campus volunteer or work experience that can make the difference when employers have to choose between candidates.
When I was elected as vice-president of communications for the McGill International Student Network (MISN), I was told that my role would be akin to a part-time job. In reality, my role was so much more.
For the past eight months, I have been volunteering at the Wilfrid Laurier University career centre as a student career leader.
We would go through the textbook chapter by chapter, breaking down concepts to simper and simpler levels, and compiling notes for him to study from. Yet week after week he bombed quizzes, coming back more and more frustrated.
I got to meet and work with a great group of people and I had a lot of fun throughout the year. But besides the social benefits, volunteering in health promotion helped me decide to pursue a master’s degree in journalism.
McMaster University communications studies professor Alexandre Sévigny explains the importance of having an “in” with your professors so you can get to know them, so they can provide career advice and industry contacts, and so you can ultimately ask them for a reference letter.
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