Student success: Future full of promise

By Janet Harron | May 26, 2015

Part of a special feature celebrating student success during spring convocation. You can join the celebration by following @MemorialU on Twitter, MemorialUniversity on Instagram and liking the Memorial University of Newfoundland page on Facebook. Well wishes will be projected in the Arts and Culture Centre prior to each ceremony and can also be seen at www.today.mun.ca. 

Even before crossing the stage during convocation at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre on Tuesday, May 26, Faculty of Arts graduate Stephanie Tucker has already landed her first full-time job.

Ms. Tucker is the new communications and marketing co-ordinator for the Newfoundland and Labrador Conservation Corps (CCNL).

“I was on a grad trip with friends in Cuba after my last exam when I got the job offer,” said the double major in communications studies and English.

Ms. Tucker says it was “definitely the hard work” she put in during her undergraduate years that had a direct result on nabbing that all-important first job.

“With the competitive nature of today’s job market, you can’t just only do your degree and expect to land your dream job, you have to make yourself stand out in your field,” she said. “I worked unpaid internships, volunteered, was very involved on campus, worked both MUCEP [on campus] and off-campus jobs and spent a lot of time studying to make sure I got straight As. It is incredibly rewarding to know that my efforts paid off and I am now working directly in my field at an amazing organization.”

As a MUCEP assistant for Dr. Don Nichols and Mary Walsh during the 2014 Harlow Literary London program, Ms. Tucker created a compelling video of the group’s trip to Beaumont Hamel with each of her classmates reading a line from the poem Verse by John Oxenham.

“Stephanie has a great career ahead of her as a videographer, diplomat or prime minister,” said Dr. Nichols.


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