Testimonials

From an graduate's point of view:

•“NAIT was an ideal starting point for my career.  It helped me with my confidence and it helped to approach situations with a positive perspective, find a way to get things done and then get things done!” – Marcin Derewonko- NAIT graduate, Employee of Metegrity Inc.

•“ The best part was after the Co-Op, they hired me!”, (Re: the instructors)“…I had the most amazing instructor…she taught at night in the Continuing Ed program; she taught SQL.  She had a ‘touch’ with the students.  I remember that her explanations of the code and syntax, it was amazing- it was impossible to NOT understand what she was teaching.”- Tomasz Dudycz, Programmer- Metegrity Inc.

•(Re: the Co-Op Program)“It wasn’t simply a positive experience, but turned out to be a blessing in a diminishing job market at the time.”- Swarn Dhaliwal, Systems Analyst -Metegrity Inc.

•“The transition to the workforce was pretty seamless.  The instructors gave a really good idea of what to expect…”, “ ..The instructors would stay after class if any students had problems or issues.  They were even flexible on assignments sometimes.” – Stefan Krupa, NAIT graduate Spring 2011,

•“NAIT provided good opportunity in the Co-Op program.  NAIT has a lot of connections with IT related companies both huge and small.”- Si Yuan Ma, NAIT CST graduate, Spring 2011

From an employer’s point of view:

•“(Bringing students in through the Co-Op program, they) have the courses and skills we require and they don’t have the preconceived processes…they’re not coming from some other environment where we have to work around existing habits and behaviors or work processes…Obviously we believe in their skill-sets because we’ve hired a lot of them as permanent employees after their term is done!”

•“Working full-time and going to school at night was taxing, but the environment is so supportive at NAIT.  The instructors will make time with you to discuss things, students work with each other..” - Carolyn Beswatherick, Team Lead, Systems Analyst- Metegrity Inc. and NAIT graduate