LAURA HAYWOOD: NORTHERN CANADA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME

Having grown up in the Canadian Northwest Territories for six years, Laura Haywood developed a love for Northern Canada and is enthused to do her six-week internship there this spring. “I will be working in a communications department for a Union of Northern workers,” she says. “If I am offered a job through my placement, I would definitely take it.”

Haywood is a public relations student at NSCC Ivany Campus and is graduating in June 2020. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in women’s studies from Mount Saint Vincent University and says it was an amazing program. She is passionate about women’s rights and wants to use her PR advanced diploma to complement her undergraduate education.

Her favourite part about the public relations program is the writing she and her classmates get to do. She believes it will be the most used skill in the real world. “The public relations program has a writing class component that will ensure we are prepared to tackle writing projects when we start working in industry,” she says. “I also love that you get to be with the same people everyday in every class and I love the friendships being made in the program.”

Her dream job is to find a position with a Union in the North. “Both of my parents were union representatives when I was growing up,” she says. “This has led me to want to work for a Union and I hope this placement is a steppingstone into that line of work.”

She also lived and worked in Iqaluit, Nunavut after graduating high school. She had a job with Nunavut Tourism where she worked for four years. “I went from information counsellor to a conference coordinator,” she says. “I planned a 300-person conference with a $300,000 budget.” The experience made her want to return to school and further her education.

If an opportunity arises from her placement in Yellowknife to move there, Haywood states she would jump at the chance and take it.

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