Business: Learning in Action
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Jessica Amundrud
Business Enrolment Specialist
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Transform your knowledge
Business is all about connections, and you'll have the opportunity to make lots as a student at Lakeland College.
Real-world experience is a key component of our business programs. Practicums, volunteer work, work-integrated learning projects and co-op placements are all examples of turning your ideas into experiences.
Whether you come to Lakeland to build a business, specialize in accounting, create dynamic marketing plans or climb the corporate ladder, come prepared to learn by doing.
Hands-on learning happens here
For 20+ years, the Lloydminster Chamber of Commerce members have met and mingled with Lakeland business students through Chamber Connect.
Who you know is often a critical part of business success. Get started with Chamber Connect networking events. You may even meet your future employer at one of these events.
You'll also meet with guest speakers, some of whom are alumni, who come to your classes throughout the year.
Invest in yourself through Synergy Speakers' Corner.
You practice and learn to be a more confident speaker through Synergy Speakers' Corner.
The club, founded in 2015, also focuses on building student leadership skills.
You also have the opportunity to lead and organize activities.
Public speaking skills increase your value by 50% says one of the club's organizers.
Lloydminster's annual Inspiring Women conference has benefited from the skills and hands-on support of administrative professional students.
Since 2019, admin professional students have joined the organizers to help put together the conference. See how our students helped make the 2025 conference a success.
Tasks have included co-hosting, marketing, decorating, scheduling session moderators, running the registration table, acting as escorts to seat attendees, organizing door prizes, engaging with an online audience through social media and administering a survey.
Experiences
Accounting major students have used their skills to help people do their income taxes for over two decades.
Students volunteer their time to help seniors, students, low-income families and newcomers to Canada with their annual income taxes. They are helped by alumni and faculty. Partnerships with local businesses and organizations support the clinics.
At the start, students prepared just over 400 income tax returns in a year. The number of returns has grown to more than 600 during the annual tax clinics.
Check out how our students continue to provide this valuable tax preparation service every year.
The annual deans of business case competition brings together some of Lakeland's best
and brightest against similar post-secondary teams teams from across Alberta.
The competition starts with a real-world business problem. Each team is challenged to develop practical solutions and present them to a panel.
While the team is limited to 5 members, going through real business cases is also a classroom exercise.
Metrix Group LLP is our team's official sponsor.
And by the way, Lakeland has won this competition and also placed in the top 3 five times since the competition started in 2006. The 2018 business case competition placed 3rd (photo above).
You have the opportunity to choose a co-op placement between first and second year
of our business administration diploma.
Not only are you putting what you learned to use in the real world, you're getting a taste of how to interview for a job and of where jobs might take you along a career path.
