〈2025-01-03〉Toronto Zoo🐺

Today I attended the Toronto Zoo Job Fair. I registered online in advance and when I went on the day of the event, I received a free admission band and parking ticket for myself and one accompanying person. I mistakenly thought these could be used at a later date. 

The job fair was held in a corner of the zoo's facilities and visitors were free to come and go as they pleased during the hours. A number of information panels were set up at each booth, and you were free to visit the booths you were interested in, talk to the staff and hand in your CV. Resume writing lessons and corrections were also available in the building next door. 

I didn't have my CV and cover letter prepared because I didn't know the detail of the job fair, so I just talked to staff at about three booths. The staff told me that I didn't need any zoo experience and that if I had a work permit, it would be fine because it was a time-limited job. To be honest, it was difficult to understand everything about the job with my English skills and job fair experience in Canada.

I had wanted to work in a zoo since I was a child. I really wanted to work in a job related to animals, like a zoo keeper, but I think it's difficult for me because of my second language and no degree of veterinary or biology.  That's way, at first, I thought if I can work as a staff in the park's amusement, in the café or at the ticket booth. But the zoo is far from my house and I thought that if I was going to do that kind of work, I would probably improve my English more in the city. 

Honestly, I would like to participate in an internship at the Toronto Zoo. I found out that it was also possible to participate after asking a few questions. However, only a few people can participate each term and I have to do a lot of tasks in English, which is very interesting and I would like to do it, but it seems very difficult and I don't think I can pass it in the first place.

Then, I also attended a lesson on how to write a CV. It was mostly the same content as the Japanese website, but I appreciated the direct correction. My CV was for a restaurant and I wasn't sure if my English was correct, so I was too shy to ask for a correction at first. However I was happy to hear that I had written it almost correctly.

Afterwards, I enjoyed the zoo for my first time. But I didn't see many animals because of winter and it was too cold for me because I didn't expect to walk in the zoo today. I tried to see everything as evenly as possible and enjoyed until the afternoon. Maybe I should come back when the snow melts.

(Perhaps today's article is difficult to read. Sorry.)

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