Business View Magazine - January 2024

employers are still actively looking for a well-defined skill set equipping young people with the potential to flourish. Possessing these skills, a young employee can virtually write their ticket. Even better, there are now more opportunities than ever before for young people equipped with the right skills required for the burgeoning field of entrepreneurship, to take a leap of faith and set up successful businesses.What can be better than being your own boss? Before applying for highly skilled positions, or taking the step to develop their brand, young people can benefit greatly from being exposed to real entrepreneurial experience and developing the key skills to apply when embracing future opportunities. This is where Student Works has stepped in to take the lead. TIMELY APPROACH TO STUDENT SUCCESS For close to 45 years there has been no better place to gain those indispensable skills than Student Works, a leading Canadian-based young entrepreneurial program that has been turning out leaders for tomorrowwith the skills to develop fulfilling careers in virtually every sector of the economy. “We are a student leadership program,” Chris Thomson, President and Head Coach of Student Works, explains when we had an opportunity to catch up with him, despite his busy schedule. “What we do is we identify students who want to be powerful leaders.” “That could be in the [field] of law, in business, the medical space or engineering for example, and they are drawn to us because there are very few real leadership opportunities where young people get the opportunity to take the level of control and responsibility that they do in our program,” he elaborates. “They (the students) are (eventually) running their marketing, their sales, their production management, and recruiting their teams.” Thomson points out that Student Works has 101 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 01 STUDENT WORKS