Students defy blizzard to attend Brandon Career Symposium

Stormy conditions across southwestern Manitoba couldn’t stop this year’s Brandon Career Symposium.

The annual event is for high school students to explore career, education, and training opportunities at Brandon’s Keystone Centre. It provides an engaging setting for students to connect with post-secondary institutions and services that help put them on their way to success. The 2017 Symposium featured exhibitor booths, sponsors, and activities for people of all ages.

Campus Manitoba’s Virtual Help Desk was on hand to answer questions about Set Your Course and eCourses Manitoba. Despite reduced traffic due to province-wide road closures and poor conditions in town, students were in good spirits as they took in the sights at the Symposium.

Brandon Career Symposium open for business

Our experience at previous events told us that students are eager to explore the career and education opportunities available in Manitoba.  The Brandon Career Symposium was no exception. Students shared their plans to be teachers, chefs, doctors, veterinary assistants, aircraft mechanics, and more.

As we did at the Rotary Career Symposium and the Canadian Immigrant Fair, we asked students to share a few details about their educational interests and career plans.

We had 106 entrants into our draw for a gift card. 87 of those students plan on furthering their education at a post-secondary institution — that’s over 80%! The most common career interests were teaching (with 10 responses) and nursing (with 6). Other careers included accounting, medicine, acting, engineering, and sports management.

We also asked about favourite subjects in school. The highest response was Math (33) and second was Science (19), with Physical Education (15) and English (13) rounding out the top four.

We used Set Your Course to show students what universities and colleges offer the education needed for their career goals.

Set Your Course is Manitoba’s career and education planning hub

If you couldn’t come to the Symposium because of weather, visit us online at setyourcourse.ca. Set Your Course has the tools and tips to help make career decisions easier. You’ll find information about universities and colleges in Manitoba, plus a catalogue of over 200 careers available in the province. SYC also features links to apprenticeship programs and resources for financing your education. It is Manitoba’s hub for planning your future as a university or college student!

Want to talk to someone about your plans? The Virtual Help Desk is standing by to help you determine what education you need to make your dreams a reality. You’ll have plenty of options! The site features live chat that you can use to connect with a real human being who is ready to answer your questions. We’re more than happy to help you out.

With Set Your Course, you can look forward to what your future has to offer. No matter what age you are or stage of life you’re at, we’ll help make your journey into the post-secondary world a simple one.

Campus Manitoba is a consortium of Manitoba’s public post-secondary institutions. Through collaborative projects and shared services, we facilitate student mobility and expand access to post-secondary programs for students in Manitoba. In addition to setyourcourse.ca, our websites include ecoursesmb.ca and openedmb.ca.