The Career Accelerator format offers a week-long intensive training program focused on management and industry issues that most affect businesses today. There are four CWC Career Accelerators offered on a rotating basis. Twenty participants are chosen per session and recieve a scholarship that covers all travel, accommodation and tuition expenses.

CWC / CORUS DIGITAL MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY CAREER ACCELERATOR

Scholarship recipients announced !

We're providing you with a virtual tour of our 2010 CWC/Corus Digital Media & Techonology Career Accelerator through daily blog posts written by this year’s program participants. To read the participants’ insightful reports on the program, please click here.

This is THE program that explores new technologies and cross platform content development and distribution that will keep you an in demand employee!

This intensive, six-day executive training program funded by Corus Entertainment Inc., outlines and explores the converging media platforms and their impact on the industry and your role within it.

The program teaches the fundamentals of how technology is affecting media content development and distribution.

This Program has been designed exclusively for women in the communications industries (radio, TV, specialty broadcasting, cable TV, telecommunications, publishing, new/digital media, film/TV production) and the IT/ICT sector with at least 5 years of full-time experience who, to advance in their careers, need to understand technology and how it’s affecting content development across the converging media platforms.

Congratulations to the following 2010 scholarship recipients: Joyce Byrne, Maayan Cohen, Melanie de Klerk, Sophie De Nobile, Linda English, Tema Frank, Lisa Gotlieb, Crystal Hildebrandt, Carla Johnson, Michelle Kosoy, Stacey Lines, Kathy Mauchner, Jodi "Taylor" Orr, Lisa Peters, Debbie Schween, Helen Sianos, Lecia Simpson, Christiane Vaillancourt, Kristy Werner, Betty Yung.

CWC / CORUS CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES CAREER ACCELERATOR

Scholarship recipients announced !

The CWC/Corus Convergent Technologies Career Accelerator offers an intense and enriching learning experience that demystifies ICT and communications technology and explores its impact on sales, marketing, business, strategic planning and regulation issues.

The program, funded by Corus Entertainment Inc., outlines the evolution of the various communications and media creation tools and delivery methods, and describes how and where these technologies converge and what that means to careers and to the industry.

The program is designed exclusively for women with at least 3 to 5 years experience in ICT, broadcasting and communications, who need to understand technology and its future in order to be successful in their careers.

The women listed below were accepted on a full scholarship basis into the program, which ran from May 25 - 30, 2008, at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Congratulations to the following 2008 scholarship recipients:

Paula Allen, Dawn Olivence, Donia Bloxam, Kerri Pelland, Fawn-Dell Flanagan, Sandee Reed, Naomi Fraser, Katrina Regan-Ingram, Sacha Fraser, Pacifica Santarcangelo, Karen Hui, Caroline Soucy, Carly Klassen, Kim Stadfeld, Nadine Krefetz, Tina-Marie Tatto, Nathalie Larouche, Deborah Therien, Dawn MacInnis, Tina Tremblay, Susan Makela, Dawn Hong Xie.

To download a brochure that outlines the 2008 program, please click here.

CWC RADIO CAREER ACCELERATOR

Designed exclusively for women in Canadian radio, this executive training program offers an intensive and enriching learning experience for new and middle managers focusing on programming, administration and sales. Participants learn how to present their ideas effectively, find their way around a financial statement with confidence, and deal with the realities of deregulation, digitization, sales, automation, marketing, labour relations, programming and research.

CWC TELEVISION CAREER ACCELERATOR PROGRAM

This week-long executive training course was created especially for women in television, to prepare them for senior management roles in their field. The curriculum is designed and delivered by Ryerson University in Toronto, in collaboration with some of the best television, specialty and new media broadcasters in the industry.