In the summer of 2018, Alicia Mayo-White was a few months into a post-graduate human resources (HR) program at Confederation College when a tour of the school’s machine shop stopped her in her tracks.
She had been hired for the summer to work in the HR department at the Thunder Bay college, and part of her job was to help hire new faculty.
Touring the school with a candidate interviewing for the millwright program coordinator position, they poked their heads into the machine shop to check out the space and equipment.
Laid out on the workbenches were a number of fireplaces, all made by current students.
A feeling hit Mayo-White like a lightning bolt.
“I was, like, ‘I’m in the wrong program — who made these’?” Mayo-White recalled. “I just instantly knew.”
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