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Take Your Kid To Work Day 2018

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The Assignment:

 

Name: Tyr C

Advisory #: 2

Name of your host: Leslie Courchesne   Relationship to you: Mother

 

  1. What is your job title?

 

Executive director of alumni relations, and alumni association at BCIT.

 

  1. What is your job description?

 

Advancement for enhancing services for alumni and strengthening their role in advancing institute goals. This position is responsible for overall administration of the alumni relations office, including strategic planning, fiscal management, staffing, and program development; and serves as the executive director of the alumni association. The director leads alumni engagement, representing the interests of alumni in discussions on a wide range of pan-institutional challenges and opportunities.

 

  1. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

 

Communications, Alumni relations strategic plan, Organization, Management and leadership of staff, Planning, development and Communications, Fundraising, Alumni Association, Administration and Finance, Decision Making, Financial Responsibility, Supervision Exercised, Supervision Received, Entrance Qualifications.

  1. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
  2. training?

No training.

  1. education?

Bachelor’s in communication also a masters in marketing.

  1. experience?

20 years in public sector.

  1. skills and attributes (personal qualities)?

Communication, leadership, relationship building, strategic planning.

 

  1. What are some of the things you like about the job?

Likes to meet new people, and interacting with new people. Likes events, and international travel. “Also there is always cool stuff happening at BCIT, says its fun working at place where there is always something happening”.

  1. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?

Long hours.

Lots of e-mails (433 right now).

Does not like commute.

Doesn’t like where the office is on campus because they are hidden away on the back corner of the campus.

 

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so                                                      Growing programs and making new ones. Also expanding alumni chapters. Bigger budget and more staff

 

Student Reflections:

  1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

a)You get to lead/organize a lot of meeting and events.

b)There is a Tim Hortons on campus as well as a Triple O’s.

  1. c) You get to meet a lot of new interesting people and travel the world                                    Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
  2. a) Sitting in an office all day, and going to meetings.

b)Lots of meetings and late night events you have to go to. Also you have to organize them.

c)Very far commute. This also is bad because of gas money and environment.

  1. Is this job for you? Why or Why not?

No because I prefer to work not in an office and be more out in the world every-day. I don’t want to sit in meetings and deal with budgeting.

  1. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).

This experience showed what working looks like, and helped me decide if I liked it or not. It showed me how much planning that goes into everything they do, and how they are already looking two years ahead.