There is great deal of experience that can be gained from traveling, and best of all these skills will look great on a resume when you return from your world tour, rested, relaxed and hopefully tanned.

Andrea Belvedere, a fourth-year student at Ryerson’s Ted Rogers School of Management, is technically not an entrepreneur, but she is being featured because she may have done more for youth entrepreneurship than any other student or recent grad in Canada.

Once you’ve set your goals, done your research, and applied and networked appropriately, it is time to put it all together and continue to do it over and over.

For Tiffany Warden, a world religions and East Asian studies student at the University of Toronto, the circus doesn’t mean the big top with clowns, tigers and bike stunts. For her, the circus means contemporary circus (also known as le nouveau cirque), akin to Cirque de Soleil.

If you’re a recent grad or a student with that “I-can’t-wait-to-be-done” feeling but don’t want to jump into the workforce right away… if you want to travel and see the world but don’t have the money, then Korea may be for you!

I credit a job shadow I did at the Ontario Ministry of Finance as being the reason why I want to work for the government when I graduate. I wasn’t paid, but being able to immerse myself in the environment was worth it.

Individual students can do very little to speed up negotiations and end the strike. But with some personal industry and initiative, the free time students have on their hands during a strike can actually be quite productive.

It’s easy to forget the world around you when the paper piles high. And it’s also easy to forget that the restaurants, bars, galleries, shops and walking trails which are the mainstays of your non-academic moments are potential treasures to people less familiar with your cityscape.

This semester alone, I’ve attended seven company information sessions, gotten a lot of freebies and done a handful of interviews. I’m still not sure what’s going to happen in the future, but there’s always a plus to this process: I’ve learned a lot.

Katie Stiel was the director of MACgreen and currently works for Environment Hamilton and is also responsible for recruiting participants from the greater Hamilton area to come to Power Shift.