Ben Boudreau, Guest Blogger

I received an email the other day from a MSVU co-op student working for ACOA. I guess the gang over there is jumping onto the blog-bandwagon to promote employment opportunities within the federal government for students and recent graduates. I guess they must have been low on available writers (or, I'm the only author-wannabe that will write just about anything for just about anyone who asks!) because they asked me to write a piece for their site. Regardless, my four months with the Public Health Agency of Canada just won me my first guest-blog appearance! Whooohooo!

There's an excerpt below but be sure to click over to the Halifax Student Networking Café for the full piece tomorrow, September 18. As for their event, I wish them the best of luck - not that they'll need it...I happen to already know at least one of their guest-speakers and she'll rock their socks off. Go Mel, go! And yes, the photo choice will make perfect sense once you read the whole thing. Thanks ACOA!

As for any students who found they're way over to this site, I'll answer any questions you may have. Despite my shining review, there are a few downsides to everything and I'll be just as honest about those.
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“I’ll never EVER work for the government!”

My father, a public servant of almost thirty years, would roll his eyes every time I started one of my well-known rants about what I believed to be a boring, stuffy way to make a living. “Do you even know how long it takes to get a single-paged document approved?”

After twelve months of balancing a variety of tasks and responsibilities with two busy nonprofit organizations in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I had convinced myself that government timelines simply weren’t up to my fast-paced standards. The fact that I was writing off our country’s largest employer offering the widest range of employment opportunities in Canada hadn’t even occurred to me. To make matters even more embarrassing, these conclusions were all made without ever having worked even a day for the Government of Canada.

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