All Posts: Green Dream Internship Program

Any day that involves learning and being out in the field makes for a fun day!

As an HR Student, I am exposed to a lot of entry level HR recruiting work. My supervisor receives applications for various open positions at our plant and gets me to set up interviews between the candidates and the appropriate managers. I sometimes sit in on these interviews to observe the interviewers and develop a better understanding of the hiring process.

Today, I'm going to show you the Kraft pulp process that we make at the Saint-Félicien mill. I also filmed a short video to show you the inside world of the mill. Finally, I'll tell you about the values that Resolute Forest Products promotes.

Here are some of my personal favourite things to do and trip ideas, all accessible with Hudson Bay as your base camp.

Oh, the things we find off the beaten path! Nature is unexpectedly beautiful and you find all manner of neat things when you explore and keep aware. I always strive for minimal impact when I explore.

The words Green Energy, 100% Utilization, Sustainability, and Good Neighbours are some of the first to come up. I know if managed correctly, forestry can restore health to a forest. It is a renewable resource that can improve plant growth and with the proper forest practices, it can reduce severe forest fires.

I started my forestry career in 2017 fighting wildfires for Strategic Natural Resource Consultants. That was one of BC’s worst fire seasons to date and it was quite the experience to say the least.

Classes start back up in the beginning of September, so my time living in Slave Lake and working for Tolko are coming to an end as well.

If someone would have asked me what I would be doing during my work term for Tolko, writing blog posts on the side would not have been anywhere close to the top 100 things I would have thought of. Even though this internship was very unexpected, working with FPAC and Tolko to create these blog posts has been a wonderful experience.

There are many things which have made my work term at Tolko very enjoyable, and to summarize them I have used the six core values at Tolko to explain my favorite parts.

his would be my life for the next four months while I worked as a forestry intern for Weyerhaeuser Timberlands. It was a drastic change for me, but one I was ready for.

When you start your first job in forestry, there is a lot of preparation required: the first cardinal point of advice is to buy good work boots and wear them in before you start.