Nature, Naturally: A Possible Summer Job

by Tiffany Cowan

I’ve just applied for a Parks Canada Summer Student Videographer job.  I think that it would be an awesome way to spend the summer.  Travelling across Alberta, maybe even Canada filming things that I think are interesting would be great!  I really hope that I get the job.

It’s been quite the process already and I have no idea if I’m going to get the job.

It started off with sending in your resumé and a cover letter.  After that, there was a 40 question multiple choice test that asked about video editing, shooting and quite a bit on Canadian history.  (P.S. Canadians first used the loonie in 1987.)

So, after all that was over, I waited.  I waited for just two days and received an e-mail asking that I send in a one minute sample of my work.

I wanted to show them that I could shoot, edit, and write, and I wanted them to see my face.  So this is the video I came up with… I called it Nature, Naturally.

Just two more days after I sent them the video, they e-mailed me back some forms to fill out.  Since it is a government job, I’m realizing that they want to know everything about their applicants.  I gave them everything.

Well, I just finished mailing the Personnel Screening, Consent and Authorization Forms.  So I’m assuming in another two days, I’ll either hear something good, or something bad.

Hopefully it wasn’t a waste of time.  Wait, I take that back.  It wasn’t a waste of time.  I had never been to Elk Island National Park before, and now that I’ve been out there I really enjoyed it.  Even if I only saw one bison in three hours.

I really hope that I get the job.  I’ll keep you posted.

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