Careers

Laurier Grads are Successful

Sample Jobs within the First Year After Graduation

• communications coordinator
• content editor
• digital marketing specialist
• editor-in-chief
• junior copywriter

Sample Further Education Programs within the First Year After Graduation

• Master’s degree: Media and Communication Studies, Applied Politics, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory.
• College program: Technical Writing, Public Relations, Sports Broadcasting.
• 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

Employers identify these competencies as very important when recruiting entry-level candidates. As a Laurier student, you gain these skills through the opportunities available to you.

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 volume of information to create a story or message that is clear, concise, comprehensive, accurate and engaging.
• Understand and appropriately use language to communicate ideas and information to others who have different levels of literacy and different contextual perspectives.
• 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.

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.