OUTREACH
BUILDING FUTURE LEADERS APEGA’s Student Liaison Committees are taking a more hands-on role in organizing events to help engineering and geoscience undergrads strengthen their soft skills — like this Rapid Resume Review held last fall at the University of Alberta. While APEGA’s Outreach team still provides support, students on the committees are now responsible for running events, which helps them develop valuable leadership and project management skills.
A SMOOTH TRANSITION
Students coming out of post-secondary over the next few years will learn a lot about what makes Alberta unique in the world economy. There’s a certain culture in our province, one that’s tough to convey in a classroom. Albertans are passionate about what we do. We’re committed to innovating and improving; refining and adapting; and coming up with creative solutions to the problems we face. Students who have experience tackling large-scale issues (“how can we help people thrive post-graduation?”), thinking outside the box, leading initiatives, and organizing events that serve a larger goal are going to be those that help further establish Alberta as an economic leader for ideas and industry in Canada and beyond. These students will be a valuable commodity as they walk up to receive their degree, and the skills they picked up in university have the potential to make an impact on far more than just their career.
“We didn’t tell students exactly how to accomplish initiatives or give them step-by-step instructions on how to execute. We’re mentoring them, and planning a few early events alongside them, but the power to make a difference in engineering and geoscience students is in their hands; not ours.”
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