{"id":1220,"date":"2019-01-23T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:29:05","slug":"jacqueline-stesco-ma-in-international-affairs-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/2019\/jacqueline-stesco-ma-in-international-affairs-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Stesco: MA in International Affairs (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Jacqueline Stesco: MA in International Affairs (2011)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"jacqueline-stesco\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jacqueline Stesco<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"ma-in-international-affairs-2011\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">MA in International Affairs (2011)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What field of work are you in, and what duties are required in your position?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I am in Risk Management. Currently, I work at the Canada Revenue Agency in their Enterprise Risk Management function. I am responsible for reviewing the risk management of all Agency projects valued at over $1M, I complete Internal Fraud Risk Assessments and I do ad-hoc risk advisories with clients across the Agency to help identify&nbsp;and mitigate their&nbsp;risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What challenges did you face when looking for work after graduating?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to work for the government and when I graduated, there was a hiring freeze. No jobs to be had. I pivoted and expanded my horizons to the private sector landing a job at EY. Working at EY was the perfect solution. Working out of the Ottawa office, most of my clients were government so I was able to soak up all the experience I needed to eventually transition into government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How did you arrive at your current position?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I found my current position via my network. I knew about the function through my previous consulting work and was intrigued. When I heard that there was an opening, I jumped!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What advice would you give to a graduate student looking to follow a career path similar to yours?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no one way to achieve a goal. Few people achieve what they want right off the bat. Often, it takes a little maneuvering. I think that understanding how what you&#8217;re doing now will connect to the next step will be more helpful in the long run and will get you to where you want to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jacqueline Stesco has been involved with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.carleton.ca\/cu-mentors\/stesco-jacqueline\/\">Carleton\u2019s Alumni Mentoring program<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;The Alumni Mentors program pairs motivated upper-year students and recent graduates with an alumni mentor. Mentors are established professionals who help students and recent graduates develop skills for the workplace and expand their professional networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Stesco MA in International Affairs (2011) I am in Risk Management. Currently, I work at the Canada Revenue Agency in their Enterprise Risk Management function. I am responsible for reviewing the risk management of all Agency projects valued at over $1M, I complete Internal Fraud Risk Assessments and I do ad-hoc risk advisories with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-advice","category-public-affairs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}