When I started my academic endeavor at PACE last year, I had zero knowledge about both public relations and marketing. After completing my internship at the end of the program, I was offered a full-time position as the Communications Coordinator at Dooley PR & Marketing.

Most of us have been there – that awkward time between school and career. You feel like you’re ready to take on the world, but lack real-world experience. Time and again, experiential learning helps students bridge the gap between education and career.

We're excited to introduce launch our 2020-2021 Year in the Life series, where we'll follow a number of PACE students through their year as students in one of our full-time programs.

Before I moved to Winnipeg in December 2018, I had a budding marketing communications career in Nigeria. So when I moved here as a resident, my natural career interest was in the field that I was already familiar with.

Almost a year ago, my husband and I moved to Canada, and I started the Human Resource Management Program at PACE. Wow! This year went by fast, but at the same time, so many things have happened.

Meet Javier Gore. Javier is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with Loblaws. Javier graduated from our Human Resource Management Diploma in 2019. We asked Javier to reflect on how the pandemic has impacted his work-life.

Many people often ask, including Canadians, why my family and I crossed the ocean from tropical and ever-green Bali island and stopped in Winnipeg - in the heart of the country, with a population of just over 700 thousand, where the temperature reaches -42 during the winter, and +36 in summer?

Meet Kim. Kim is the Executive Director of UWinnipeg PACE. Kim has a passion for creating a culture of innovation and collaboration and leading the team in developing and delivering professional programs that change our students’ lives. We asked her to reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her work life.

In episode 9 of our Year in the Life series featuring five students in UWinnipeg PACE programs who began their studies in September 2019, our students talk about the diversity in our classrooms. Interviews for this episode were filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.

Meet Lelita. Lelita is one of our Program Managers at UWinnipeg PACE. She has a host of responsibilities at PACE including overseeing our Financial Management Diploma.