Jared Hochman

What drew you to the Diploma in Intellectual Disability Studies? Susan: I have a foster brother who my mom raised since the age of four and is now 25. When he turned 18 I became his legal guardian due to his intellectual disability of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. I would eventually like a career as an […]

My final decision on what university to attend was based on student life. Most science programs have very similar requirements so I was looking for a university that had heart and where you weren’t just a number—I was looking for opportunities to be able to have a close relationship with my professors. I started in […]

How did your education help you land your current career? Having a degree definitely has helped me, but I don’t think it can stand on its own. If not for the program at Université Sainte-Anne—a preparatory course for bilingual clerical positions within all levels of government—I wouldn’t have had an opportunity to be contacted by […]

For people in my situation—moving here and being worried that their English would not be good enough, Direction Emploi is there to help you find jobs when moving to an English-speaking province, to help you at the start: finding job opportunities, resume help, translating things—anything to help you. They have small classes, such as how […]

Out of school I had the courses required to become a licensed assistant. My training at CIBC Wood Gundy, along with an Investment Representative course through Canadian Securities Institute completed that license. Within a year, I was able to upgrade my license to a Registered Representative via the Wealth Management Essentials course through CSI. This […]

Why Vancouver Film School? After graduating university with a degree in architecture, I was looking to expand upon my design background, but in a digital environment. I was inspired by the quality of work that I saw coming out of the Digital Design Program at VFS, and by what people were accomplishing in its one-year […]

After earning a BA at the University of New Brunswick, Dave Little had been working for more than five years as a professional photographer and videographer when he decided he wanted to find a career that would enable him to contribute—in a meaningful way—to the region’s environmental sustainability. “Early in 2011, I felt that I […]

What pushed you to go to the Rowe School of Business? As I completed my Business Administration degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland, I knew that marketing was my passion, but I wanted to learn more. I began researching graduate programs and kept coming back to the Corporate Residency MBA. I was enticed by the […]