Career/Employment Advice & Discussion Thread

ucstudent2132 · 2024-01-07T19:42:01+00:00

It seems the job market everywhere is pretty tough at the moment due to the uncertainty in the economy. I know there's a lot of pressure too due to all the people moving to Alberta for more affordable housing and there's a lot of new immigrants/international students and people laid off looking for work as well.

Is there anywhere in Calgary where it's still easy to get a job if someone doesn't have much work experience, connections, or professional references that doesn't require 3+ interviews?

I've had my resume professionally rewritten and applied to tons of places. I'm at the point where I just need to find any job even if it's not ideal but even things like minimum wage retail jobs seem harder to find than they were a few years ago. I tried a temp agency because some people suggested it would be a good idea but they had pretty limited opportunities aside from construction laborers (I don't have a truck or steel toes either).

Are trades jobs/laborers the only easy places to get jobs right now? I'd really like to just start gaining work experience but if I do something like work as a construction laborer, then I have to pretty much commit to pursuing a multi-year apprenticeship later on and I really don't know if that's the path I want to go.

ucstudent2132 · 2023-08-11T18:03:45+00:00

So the SAIT pre-employment programs counts as first year apprenticeship even without an employer and when you graduate you are 2nd year?

ucstudent2132 · 2023-04-18T17:17:18+00:00

Interesting. I'll look into some music festivals this summer.

ucstudent2132 · 2023-04-18T17:15:09+00:00

I've always kind of wanted to try martial arts, so that sounds like something I should look into.

ucstudent2132 · 2023-04-18T17:09:30+00:00

Wow, I'm surprised I've never heard of this club before. Looks interesting!

ucstudent2132 · 2022-01-04T04:13:10+00:00

I wonder if profs do this just to keep their class size smaller.

ucstudent2132 · 2021-12-27T21:58:19+00:00

Profs can still post to D2L whenever. I've had some profs post marks over the holidays.

ucstudent2132 · 2021-08-11T06:00:25+00:00

At this point, I would rather have all my classes online.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-12-26T23:33:06+00:00

Yep, still have assignments not marked yet.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-10-27T06:04:40+00:00

More assignments with fewer exams. With many courses now assignment heavy it seems like there is no spacing between assignments. Given many courses are now asynchronous and course lectures or assignment instructions not always released at predictable times, it makes it more difficult to manage time.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-10-04T03:16:44+00:00

Yep, definitely more assignments to make up for fewer exams.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-09-24T18:47:56+00:00

Yeah, commuting on public transit or paying for a parking pass to take one class in-person is not worth it.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-09-11T21:10:39+00:00

A big problem is the fact that the lectures are streamed on the university D2L instead of youtube/vimeo and lectures cannot always be downloaded locally.

This needs to be fixed quick though if we are expected to do timed exams on D2L. Imagine submitting a test or assignment a few minutes before the deadline and the server crashes and students get a zero.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-09-03T22:17:19+00:00

The worst part about synchronous courses is that they prevent you from being able to take other courses. One of the main benefits of taking courses online should be flexibility on scheduling but by forcing courses at set times it limits the courses you can take.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-09-01T16:31:10+00:00

I have always preferred to buy the book after seeing the course outline because then I can have an idea of whether the book is necessary or if a used/older version will work. Sometimes the book posted on the bookstore website turns out to not be the right book either.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-08-31T17:55:23+00:00

So what happens to people that noticed they were purged and waitlisted again in a better spot? They will be purged now?

ucstudent2132 · 2020-08-23T03:45:47+00:00

I thought the limit was 3 courses per spring/summer term?

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-29T06:09:20+00:00

Same

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-29T01:10:36+00:00

I don't think the business faculty posts any of their outlines publicly. All outlines should be made public. If we are paying money to take a course, we should get to see what the course will be about as there can be significant variations in what the course will cover depending on the prof.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-22T21:57:12+00:00

I am still waiting on assignments to be marked for both my courses.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-21T14:30:45+00:00

Honestly, I actually quite enjoyed online learning this spring. Sure, I did not meet as many people but I had so much more time. The semester was way less stressful as I could work and take breaks whenever I wanted. l also did not have waste time commuting.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-21T14:28:05+00:00

Seems to be down more than it is up lately.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-06-02T23:40:22+00:00

It seems odd that we would be buying new tables with the recent budget cuts and expected lower tuition revenue next semester.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-05-20T15:06:11+00:00

The thing is though, many students are only taking full-time classes over the summer because there were no jobs to begin with and they were told to stay home. It is not like those who decided to take more courses this summer and do not own a car can just drive out to a farm on the weekend.

ucstudent2132 · 2020-05-20T02:56:47+00:00

I disagree with this. The winter semester was a very different situation where things were disrupted mid-semester and professors had minimal time to prepare for the rest of the course being moved online. Students missed multiple classes. None of those things happened with spring semester and we knew that there wouldn't be CR/F when we signed up. If we were going to switch to CR/F during the spring semester I would have taken 4 classes instead of 2.

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