Experiential Learning & Career Development MtA

Emily and Kennedy attended the official opening of CANB-Moncton Northeast's Student/Apprentice Membership Program. We're grateful for this partnership with MNECA and we love to facilitate these connections between employers and students!

Career Week is a wrap! This past week was filled with career readiness opportunities for students, and we want to thank everyone who came to our events. Our networking event on Monday was great, thanks to Brooke Mazurkewich from Greater Dorchester Moving Forward Co-op and Leyong Loro from Enterprise Mobility who attended and gave our students a chance to network with local employers. Wednesday was another big day for us, our Career Fair connected over 200 students with 20 different employers. We love to see students making connections at our winter career fair for their summer jobs! Also on Wednesday, our BComm Young Alumni Panel connected 5 alumni with current students to share their advice and tips on getting a job after graduation. Special thanks to Becca Cotton, Carson Rafuse, Katie Lockhart, Brian Tulle, CPA, and Anthony Maddalena for coming back to campus and joining us!

Registration for Mount Allison University's Winter Career Fair is now open! You can register your organization in our Experience MTA portal (which is also where we post jobs for students) via https://lnkd.in/eEpCMPwV.    Here are the details: The fair will take place on Wednesday, February 12th, from 11am-3pm. Attendees will be set up in the Wallace McCain Student Centre on campus. The registration fee is $350 + HST (includes booth, lunch and refreshments for two, wifi access, and virtual/printed advertising). There is special pricing available for non-profit organizations—please email us at careers@mta.ca for details. The deadline to register is Wednesday, February 5th.   Register today to attend!   If you have any questions about the event or how to register, please reach out and a member of our team will be happy to support you. We look forward to welcoming you to campus!

Our partnership with Dal Innovates is a great opportunity for increased entrepreneurship programming on and off campus. We loved having the Dal Innovates team on campus with us, and are looking forward to continuing this program next year!

This weekend we hosted Collide Discover at MtA, a 3-day student entrepreneurship conference, in partnership with Dal Innovates! We had over 20 students from Mount Allison University, NBCC (New Brunswick Community College), Nova Scotia Community College - NSCC, and Ally Beauty Academy Inc attend and learn the first steps to launch their business ventures! This was a great first step for many of our students who are applying to be entrepreneurship interns this summer! Congratulations to all students who completed this 3-day bootcamp and to our pitch competition winners, Nicolas Avendano Chung, Abigail Johanna Austin, and Arnaldo Sepulveda!

Entrepreneurship Week is officially complete! We had a very busy week, filled with events to help our students as they become entrepreneurs! From panels to workshops to info sessions, we had a bit of everything entrepreneurship related for our students check out! I want to say thank you to all of our guest speakers who joined us, and an extra special thank you to our judges for the Pitch Competition, Elyse Surette-DiMuzio, Rogan Porter, André Zanoti, LLB, LLM 🇧🇷 🇨🇦, and Brian Jeffers, who dedicated so much of their time this past month to helping us with this competition! And congratulations to our top 4 teams who went away with $2500 each in prizes!

Yesterday we took nine students to Venn Innovation for their Founders' Day Events! Our students had the chance to network with established local entrepreneurs & those beginning their ventures, participate in a fireside chat, and attend round-table discussions about key features needed for starting a business. Thank you Venn for hosting this amazing event and giving our students the chance to learn from other entrepreneurs!

This past weekend we brought six students to Saint Mary's University to participate in the Dal Innovates Collide Discover program! This program gave our students essential skills and tools to become young entrepreneurs! Along with making valuable connections to peers and potential mentors, our students participated in a pitch competition! And a big congratulations to sahil kedia and Cianna McKenzie who were two of the winners! Stay tuned for more information about Collide Discover coming to MtA in the New Year!

We're excited to work with Elyse Surette-DiMuzio this year as our Entrepreneur in Residence. She has a wealth of experience in social media & communications and is excited to lend her knowledge to MTA students. Elyse will be helping with our upcoming Entrepreneurship week workshops, as well as hosting some of her own throughout the school year! She will be a welcome addition to the office!

Fall 2024 Career Week was a success! Over the course of the week, our office engaged students and professionals in many different workshops designed to enhance their career-readiness skills. A huge thank you to MTA alumni Natalie Lagacé, MBA, Laura Schneeberger, MSc, and Emelyana Titarenko who were panelists in our first Young Alumni Panel, and gave wonderful advice to students about entering the workforce post-graduation! Also, thank you to all the organizations who attended our career fair and chatted with students about employment opportunities in many different job sectors in Canada! We had over 150 unique students attend our events over the week! Looking forward, we have Entrepreneurship Week coming up in November, and many different workshops happening each month!