One Night: The Past, Present & Future Collide

                            Another networking night! Brought to you by Sheridan College :)

            This one, however, a different kind of networking that the one earlier in the semester. Tonight, graduates of the advertising post-grad program are coming back to Sheridan to meet with the current post-grads of the advertising program ( aka the awesome class of 2015! aka us!)

Photo Cred: Advertising Account Management 2015

From left to right (First Row): Lindsay, Maria, Rebecca, Fredo, Me & Rachele

From let to right (Second Row): Migs & Bhavukk 

            Since there are only 8 of us in this program, we broke off in pairs and each duo were seated at a table. The past grads would come up to us and we got to talk to them for 10 minutes before another round of grads came by our table. If you are thinking that this reminds of you of speed-dating, yep! it is exactly like that except more professional.

            I teamed up with Rachele and we basically tag-teamed our way to success :)  It was never a dull moment. We talked to A LOT of grads and personally, I found it really comforting to know that those who graduated from this program and doing incredibly well since they graduated, We even had a few alumni who finished the program back in 2014! just a year before us!

            I know that I want to get into Account Management when I get into the Advertising Industry, so I made sure to really do my homework and make it a point to talk to grads who have a position in Accounts. There weren't as many as I would have liked, most of them were in Media ( which Rachele was happy about since that is her field of choice!). None the less, I really loved hearing the stories of how they got their 'foot in the door.' Everyone's story is different, one grad actually got an internship from an alumni who attended Networking Grad Night the year before! can you say, HOLY **** ! and of course there were some that got their job through the contacts they made via their professors, applying on LinkedIn and these are just to name a few.

               Everyone I met were really easy to talk to and seemed genuinely interested to help us with all our questions or even connect us to other people. We even found out about internship opportunities! Check out my little video below, in all the excitement for tonight, I did forget to make a video! I remembered only towards the end, so there are a few people leaving and this is how our night ended :)

This may seem silly, but we got a booklet that had a list of all the grads that showed up tonight - basically consisted of their name, a photo, graduating year and a little paragraph about them. I smiled when I got to the back pages of the booklet, class of 2015 was featured and there we were. I know we were are going to graduate and we are the class of 2015 but just seeing it in there, in full colour just made it seems so… legit. Check out the pictures below, you will see what I mean :)