Careers

Laurier Grads are Successful

Laurier Graduate Survey Results (2019)

Respondents from the Laurier Graduate Survey conducted by Career Centre. Graduates were surveyed within 12 months of graduation.

9 Digital Media and Journalism Graduates:

• Employed: 57.1%
• Pursuing Further Education: 28.6%
• Looking for Work: 14.3%

Sample Jobs within the First Year After Graduation

• communications coordinator
• corporate translator
• content and events specialist
• junior copywriter
• social media coordinator

Sample Further Education Programs within the First Year After Graduation

• Master’s degree: Journalism and Communication, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory.
• College program: Technical Writing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing.
• JD: Law.

Careers of Alumni Two-Five Years After Graduation

• associate editor
• broadcast journalist
• digital editor
• freelance writer and copywriter
• human resources coordinator
• public relations coordinator
• reporter/anchor
• social media strategist

Develop Your Knowledge and Skills

At Laurier, develop these competencies through both curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help you achieve your goals for the future.

Functional Knowledge

• Develop observational skills that will help you interpret events and issues and communicate them clearly, accurately, fairly and effectively through digital storytelling.
• Conduct comprehensive research and be able to verify information from a broad range of sources.
• Critically analyze contemporary issues including local, national and global politics, and culture and how they relate to the media.
• Understand the legal and ethical responsibilities of journalists and media professionals.
• Discover how information is sourced, valued and used in creating new knowledge.

Collaboration & Teamwork 

• Work effectively as part of a team by contributing, leading, teaching, motivating and/or encouraging others for team success.
• Lead or contribute to a shared project through determining goals, planning details, making decisions and completing tasks.
• Demonstrate professional behaviour and an understanding of individual perspectives and diversity.

Communication 

• Demonstrate excellent skills in listening, questioning, reasoning, clarifying and interviewing to gather the most relevant information to produce high-quality digital stories.
• Effectively synthesize a wide breadth of information to create a story or message that is clear, concise, comprehensive, accurate and engaging.
• Understand how to communicate ideas and information to audiences with different levels of literacy and different perspectives and backgrounds.
• Determine the right medium - a podcast, a video, a magazine feature, an interactive graphic, a data visualization - to reach a particular audience for any given story or message.
• Prepare interesting and informative reports and presentations for diverse audiences using a range of current technology.

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 

• Identify and access a wide range of relevant information and resources.
• Locate, analyze and evaluate different types of data, polls and statistics from a variety of sources.
• Discover how to use emerging tools and technology and evaluate their usefulness.
• Set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time, data and resources.
• Think creatively, consider all sides of an issue and make well-reasoned decisions.