Career Services
Professional Experiences
Professional experiences allow students to participate in time-limited work placements that provide participants with niche-specific experience. Participants are able to explore professions and develop the relevant competencies, skills, and field knowledge required to enter into a particular career. Placements usually include an element of on-the-job training and offer professional development opportunities.
At Brescia we offer students professional experiences in the form of Internships and Service-Learning Placements.
Internships
Internships are work-related experiences that provide participants with skill development, professional networking, and niche-specific professional experience. Internships require a time commitment and vary in length. At Brescia we offer paid, volunteer, non-for-profit, and summer internships.
Service-Learning Placements
Service-learning placements are reciprocal professional experiences between the student and the participating community organization. In order for professional placements to be considered, learning objectives must be met while completing some type of community service work. This allows you to provide assistance to the community while reaping the rewards of providing service, learning skills, making connections between your academics and future career goals, receiving a reference, and expanding your possibilities. At Brescia we offer organized Service-Learning Placements such as the Alternative Spring Break and Beyond Ourselves as well as individualized projects.
Alternative Spring Break Program
The Alternative Spring Break program places a group of Brescia women in foreign communities to engage in community service and experiential learning during the academic break in February. Students perform short-term projects for community agencies and learn about issues such as literacy, poverty, racism, hunger, homelessness, sustainable development, and the environment. Brescia University College and the Department of Student Services are hopeful that the alternative spring break program acts as a springboard into lifelong active citizenship. In partnership with Rayjon Sharecare, the Alternative Spring Break 2012 will be in the Dominican Republic.
For more information please contact:
Manager of Career Development and Student Engagement
Student Services Centre
St. James Building, Room 119
Office hours 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (Monday-Friday)