By: Jason Z.
Work experience is hard to come by these days, and with the summer fast approaching and the school year ending, the Calgary Stampede is a great opportunity to take advantage for accumulating this invaluable wealth called work experience.The work experience program is a partnership between the Boys and Girls Club of Calgary and the Calgary Stampede. Offering a chance for youth to practice and refine their skills in application writing, job interview, punctuality, and customer service. The work experience program does pay handsomely for a six-hour part time job, and offers an range of positions as well as shifts for you to pick. Sounds all too good to be true? Well, getting accepted isn’t exactly a stroll through the park, there are thousands of youths applying each year and only a small fraction of that number will be the lucky few that gets to wear a uniform under the scorching hot sun. Speaking of the sun, even though the program did its best to accommodate the youth’s schedules by allowing the freedom to pick and choose between AM and PM shift, the unforgiving sun on a hot summer day and the requirement to wear jeans make the jobs a sweat fest, so make sure to hydrate!
The information meeting is already over and done with, first priority is given to the youths who did attend, but interviews are not guaranteed (which means you still have a chance!). The deadline is April 22, 2014, but don’t count on it because the selection for the workers may have already been completed before the deadline. Make sure you submit a resume along with your application (don’t make the mistake I made a few years back) to the nearest Boys and Girls Club near you, application download and FAQ is here,
I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours. Hopefully this experience will be of help in the near future when you apply for a full time job.
