Sprott-Shaw Blog

The Vancouver fall Grad went great!! All staff and students looked fabulous!! Our Special Guests arrived and I was quite excited to meet them!! For those of you who were not at the Vancouver Fall Grad our special guests were the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots!!

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots

For more pictures check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/sprottshaw/page15/

The grad was a success thanks to everyone who helped!

Proud Community Contributor to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

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Loaves and Fishes representative Mike Councel (second from left) accepts a donation and non-perishable from Sprott Shaw Community College staff and students (left to right Yolanda, Candace Carpenter, Jay Kotsek and Director Bruce Wilbee). Bruce gave students and staff an opportunity to cover his head in temporary tattoos on September 11 to encourage donations! What a good sport and a great marketing idea as well!

Director Bruce is a great sport!

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A few weeks ago there was a presentation from a member of Aviawest. Aviawest is an interesting company. Aviawest is a family owned business with 7 locations, the location in Parksville and Victoria are two of the biggest. Aviawest have call centers in Nanaimo and they hire for the call center as well massages. house keeping, guest services, marketing and administrative. There are many opportunities with this locally owned company.

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Two weeks ago our Marketing rep Yolanda went to a meeting at lunch called Career Practitioners, the discussion being a huge recognition that employers are not posting information as much as word of mouth. So if you are looking for work hit the pavement and knock on doors and/or treat EVERYONE as if they could be your future boss!! This is a tip from our local Career Professionals!!

What a great point, typically it’s not what you know but who you know! It’s all about networking and making contacts!

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Yolanda one of our Marketing Reps currently attended a recruitment session for a company called NEXEN where they are currently looking for people in Long Lake Northern Alberta approx. 40km outside of Fort McMurray. Apparently this is Canada’s newest major oil sands development and the first to integrate in situ Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage technology with on-site upgrading on a large scale. So people interested can go on-line www.longlake.ca ; www.nexeninc.com. Excellent opportunities seem to be happening in Fort Mac once again!

What great information, if you are interested check out their websites!

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A student from the Vernon campus spent the morning of Tuesday June the 4 with the Vernon City Council working on Vernon’s homeless issues and also spent the morning looking around town for camps to see if they needed any assistance with food or toiletries. This practicum is being supported by the John Howard Society in Vernon and the sheltered is called Gateway. They have been a huge support to Sprott Shaw Community College and our practicum students; providing them with local contacts in different agencies that also support the homeless which in turn creates a lead a lead for future jobs and practicums for our students.

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“I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that you could not have better instructors in the LPN program than Lynne Wozney and Sheila Ackford. I had the privilege to work with both these ladies ar Glacier View Lodge. They were the biggest supporters an LPN could have, and great examples of caring, nuturing yet firm employers. I often tell potential students when they call about going into programs how honored I would have been to be taught by Lynne and Sheila, and how lucky they would be to be in their classe. This is big for me, because I am a two time Discovery Grad, but I hvae no qualms about sending someone to you for the absolute finest teaching they could receive anywhere.”

Laura Raycraft LPN
Care Coordinator
Berwick Comox Valley

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At our Nanaimo Campus on May 14 they were doing a career planning with a group of Sprott Shaw students and decided to bring in a mystery employer to do a round table discussion. Each student was able to do a short introduction of themselves and then the employer was able to do one for himself without exposing who he was or where he was from.

The group of students then proceeded to ask one question where they were able to practice their networking skills. Once the students completed this,  the employer took the floor talking openly about his business. After the guest speaker was done, an opportunity to have an open discussion happened. The students were then provided an opportunity to have a “Formal Interview” and receive feed back.

Some comments students made were:

“I found the things you talked about for interviews very interesting and applied them to my test interview with Kevin… he said he would hire me!!

“Dividing us into groups are having us ask each other interview questions was a real challenge and bringing in a surprise guest speak and having us prepare questions to find out what business he represented was a prefect wrap-up!”

“Most importantly, thank you for taking personal interest in us, it is much appreciated!”

“Kevin Jessup was very good and comfortable to with. Thank you for taking the time to arrange this opportunity as well as all the other speakers you arrange to come in. I truly believe that networking is very important and the “young ones” in the class will find out shortly once they finish that not taking the opportunities as they come in one less contact you might have to pursue your chosen path.”

-Debbie Kyle Soon to be MOA

Great ide! Looking at the feed back it is clear that the Career Planning and Management mystery guest was a success!!
Great job Nanaimo!

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are coming up fast!! Has anyone successfully purchased tickets? It is quite hard to purchase tickets for a popular events such as men’s and women’s hockey. Well I have some good news Sprott Shaw Community College has arranged a deal with VANOC.

VANOC   has given Sprott Shaw volunteer positions for any student, alumni, staff, friends and family! So if you are interested in volunteering in one of the many positions being offered head down to your Sprott Shaw Community College and speak to your Director.  This is a great opportunity for those who want to be apart of a great event! 

For more information contact your local Sprott Shaw Community Community and speak to your Director!

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Hello, welcome to Sprott Shaw Community College’s blog! My name is Dolly Anne and I am the high school liaison for Sprott Shaw. Part of my job is to go around to high schools speaking to students about why it’s important to continue on with their education, and about the courses Sprott Shaw offers. In this blog I will write about up-coming events, the courses we offer, campus news, career fairs and much more!! All information will be current and constantly up-dated! Visit the blog frequently!!

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