Career Minded

After spending two years working in the music industry in Montreal, Bronwyn Worrick was ready to go back to school. She already had an undergraduate degree in Sociology and International Development Studies, pointing to an obvious path for further studies. But luckily a former classmate from McGill guided Bronwyn towards a less-obvious choice for grad […]

Mount Saint Vincent University’s co-operative education program is celebrating 40 years of shifting students’ learning from the classroom to the workplace, and helping to break the “you need experience to get a job, but you need a job to gain experience” cycle. After completing paid work terms in industries related to their fields of study, […]

Each summer, Clean Foundation hires interns for a nine-to-15-week period to work various positions across multiple organizations throughout Nova Scotia. Clean provides these interns with the knowledge and tools to inspire and encourage actions that lead to positive environmental change, through their Clean Leadership Program. Daniel Robinson, a student of Environmental Sustainability at Acadia University, […]

Rhonda Kaassamani is in the first wave of students taking the new Intercultural Studies program at Saint Mary’s University. This new major dovetails perfectly with other areas of study, including Rhonda’s prior experience as an American Sign Language/English interpreter. “I want to be that person who can help mesh all the worlds together,” says the […]

When Tracy Roach was completing high school, she didn’t think she would ever pursue a career in health care. Even though she always knew she wanted to help people, nursing was never on the table. “After a few years of being home, my family had been affected by many cases of cancer. I spent so […]

Entering the New Year with holiday credit card debt and the next round of student-loan payments, we couldn’t have expected the good news about the current employment increase in Canada. While experts were only expecting the economy to grow by 5,000 jobs in January, the latest numbers from Statistics Canada say it actually gained 66,800 […]

When it came to choosing schools, Virg Iredale picked Dalhousie twice. The first time, she was thinking of enrolling in Dal’s acting program. She then switched programs, schools and provinces on an entirely different venture. But after receiving a message from one of her favourite teachers, Virg went back to Dalhousie because she knew that […]

Reflecting on past experiences and applying them to her teaching method is one of Kate Morrison’s tricks of the tutoring trade. Every teacher builds their own style; for her, being aware of her own teaching practice is the challenge. “I had to reflect on my own practice and performance in the classroom,” says Morrison. “As […]

In the same way that world economies once ran on gold and oil, Dinesh Kumar Govindaraj explains that data has become the most valuable resource of the Information Age. “Data science, computing power and artificial intelligence turn raw data into valuable insights that modern organizations need,” says Govindaraj about the reason he decided to undertake […]

“Once you live by the ocean, you will always miss it when you leave.” Born and raised in Alberta, Jill Ejdrygiewicz had never heard truer words. Ejdrygiewicz had returned west after already living in Nova Scotia during her Marine Biology studies at Dalhousie University. The thought of moving back to NS felt like home, and […]

John Aspin had always been interested in the arts. But because he was passionate about a career in medicine, his interest in art became more of an external affair: buying art, visiting galleries and exhibitions. He enjoyed his experience in junior high in the UK, sculpting and painting in the school’s art department, but still […]

Stuart Clow will say yes to any opportunity at school. His mentality is to take advantage of everything that his Master of Business Administration at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University offers. “As busy as it seems, taking an hour to attend a talk or a networking event is almost always worthwhile […]