MARKHAM – The Ontario Association of Broadcasters held its ninth annual Career Development Day on Monday, with more than 250 students from 11 post-secondary schools from across Ontario registered for the event.
Career Day allows soon-to-be graduating broadcasting students to meet with professionals in their field to talk candidly and ask questions, an opportunity they may not ordinarily have. This year's panel consisted of Shannon Bentley, Shott Innovation Media Production Services; Francis D'Souza, Senior Manager of Editorial and Anchor/Reporter, CityNews; Humble and Fred, humbleandfred.com; and Todd Shapiro, The Todd Shapiro Show who highlighted the many job possibilities in the broadcast field.
The event’s ever popular round-table discussions featured hosts from all areas of broadcasting and included: (alphabetically) Julie Adam, Shelley Barry, Keith Beaulieu, Shannon Bentley, Lisa Bowditch, Maureen Bulley, Chris Byrnes, Paul Campbell, Pat Cugliari, Francis D'Souza, Dave Farough, Rob Faulds, Jeff Girodat, Patrick Gonsalves, Azeem Haq, Blair Henatyzen, Julie James, Theresa Kowall-Shipp, John McKenna, James McPhee, Scott Metcalfe, JD Moffat, Evanka Osmak, Chris Pottage, Sheila Quattrociocchi, Stephanie Shaugnessey, Arlene Sobreira, Andrew Thomas, Geoff Thrasher, Angela Tu, Adriane Vogel, Brett Westdorp, Dan Wylie, and Sarah Zinger.
Sponsors of this year’s event were Humber College, Media Job Search Canada, Applied Electronics Ltd., Hitachi, National Captioning Canada, Seneca College, Fanshawe College, Loyalist College, Mohawk College, Ryerson University, Ross Video, Tier 1 Technology and Broadcast Dialogue.
