Articles tagged "Student"
First grad of OC’s new HR Post-Bacc reflects on her experience
January 18, 2020
51±¬ÁĎ’s first graduating class of the new decade will cross the stage today and among the some 600 grads picking up their parchment will be Elaine Bertram who is celebrating an exciting first for herself and the School of Business. Bertram is the inaugural graduate of the College’s Human Resources Management Post-Baccalaureate Diploma program. “When they told me I was the first graduate of the program I was shocked – but in a good way,” says Bertram. “It's an honour to be the first graduate.” The program, which launch...
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College’s 13th Annual Business Expo & Employment Fair powers up Tech Alley collaboration
January 17, 2020
Jobseekers, mark your calendars. 51±¬ÁĎ’s popular Business Expo & Employment Fair is back for its thirteenth year, once again connecting students and community members with a diverse array of employers from the Okanagan and across the country. The 51±¬ÁĎ School of Business and OC’s Student, Graduate and Co-op Employment Centre is presenting the 13th Annual Business Expo & Employment Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The event is held at 51±¬ÁĎ’s Kelowna campus in the Centre for Learning (E building) A...
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New OC grad proud of setting an example for her children
January 16, 2020
It was being a role model for her children that motivated Katie Reynders to return to school as a mature student. She wanted to show them it’s never too late to follow your dreams. “There were days I wanted to give up, but I knew I had two little people not only counting on me, but looking up to me,” says Reynders. “I think it’s really important that they got to see me go back to school while also raising them. As parents we constantly question if what we are doing is good for our kids and there was a lot of guilt when I wasn’t a...
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Meet Sally Nimmo
November 29, 2019
The opportunity to have some real-world experience has helped me to gain a lot of perspective on what we have been learning. Q: Where is your hometown? A: I grew up in a town called Bearsden which is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. Q: Why did you decide to move to Canada? A: I had just graduated from my university program and decided to spend a year in Canada travelling and working before finding a permanent job. However, I ended up starting a famil...
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