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Kris Allen
Marine Geomatics, Class of 2006
The skills we learned in the field and the classroom translated very well to the industry.
Kris Allen
Kris Allen went to school for five years thinking he'd end up working in the forestry industry. The only problem was, when he graduated from the Forestry Management program at UNB, there were no jobs to be had. A stint in the mountains of British Columbia, followed by a year teaching English in Japan, resulted in lots of fun and lots of cash, but not a lot of job satisfaction.
When Kris heard that students from a tiny campus in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia were being snatched up at graduation and fitted with well paying employment, he re-evaluated his career path. He had always been intrigued by Marine Geomatics; enrolling in the Nova Scotia Community College COGS (Centre of Geographic Sciences) program further spurred his interest.
Kris and his classmates were out on the water within the first month of the program and spent concentrated time with industry standard equipment. "The skills we learned in the field and the classroom translated very well to the industry," says Kris, who appreciated the real world experience of NSCC instructors. "In fact, employers across the board are desperate to get their hands on more people from the program."
It's not unusual for these companies to come calling on students even before convocation. When Kris graduated, his entire class was offered work many times over. Kris' work as a marine surveyor/navigator now takes him around the world.
"At NSCC, we received the theory and then we would go out and do it," says Kris, who enjoys the exciting and dynamic nature of his new work. "There couldn't be a better time to take this program. There's more work out there than there are qualified people to do it."
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