Camosun Business Co-op student Robin Stone recently won three awards (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nStone, who is headed into her second year of the accounting option of the Business Administration program, says that school is a safe place to experiment; she says co-op is an especially good place for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the point; you can go to a co-op and volunteer to do something you\u2019ve never done before, and say, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m gonna give it a shot,\u2019 because they don\u2019t actually expect you necessarily to succeed at it,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019re there to support you too. So, you have this perfect opportunity to experiment, this perfect opportunity to challenge yourself and see where you can go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone also recommends that students put themselves out there, on campus and within the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet to know people other than your classmates,\u201d she says. \u201cGo out and sign up for some clubs, volunteer, do something you\u2019re interested in that gets your name, your face, and your personality, and everything about you, known to other humans who can be part of your social capital and be part of this network you\u2019re building. That\u2019s going to propel you forward in your career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone also points out the importance of taking advantage of what Camosun offers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe school actually sets up these perfect little nuggets of opportunity throughout the program where you can go and practice skills in a professional setting,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can do mock interviews, and networking sessions, and basically speed dating with firms if you\u2019re interested in working with one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone\u2019s outstanding work as a co-op student this past year, as well as her high GPA and community and school involvement, made her a prime candidate for the awards, according to Camosun director of applied learning of co-operative education and career services Nancy Sly. Sly has witnessed not only Stone\u2019s achievements but also her exceptional personal growth; she recalls Stone\u2019s trepidation about speaking at the Yvonne Thompson Page Award ceremony last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would only come to the awards ceremony if she didn\u2019t have to speak,\u201d says Sly. \u201cShe could barely look me in the eye. And in that next year, she went to Toastmasters, she came out of her shell. So, you could see, she just had tremendous growth, and, obviously, support from family and instructors at the college.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone urges Camosun students to take advantage of everything at the college from the get-go instead of waiting until their final semester to unearth the possibilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cGo your first year,\u201d she says. \u201cDon\u2019t wait until fourth year when, one, you\u2019ve never practiced how to speak to another human about work and you\u2019re super nervous, and, two, you\u2019re dependent on actually getting a job. Go in just to get them to get to know you, and they say, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s go for a coffee.\u2019 You follow up, you go for coffee with these people, and you start to get to know who\u2019s in town.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year, Robin Stone was one of a handful of Camosun Business Co-op students to win the college\u2019s Yvonne Thompson Page Co-op Student of the Year award. This year, she received the recognition again, allowing her to be nominated for the Association for Co-operative Education Provincial College Co-op Student of the Year Award, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-august-8-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16196,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194\/revisions\/16196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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