Laetitia’s Story Working and Traveling Abroad With International Experience Canada

Video length: 1m 52sec

The video opens on a hand-drawn image of the earth and four travel photos from around the world.

Text displays: International Experience Canada

Narrator: What is great with IEC is that it also facilitates working visas. So, you can travel and go have this experience in another country, but you’re also allowed to work.

It cuts to a woman talking in front of an off-white background, with her name and origin in a text box in the bottom left-hand corner.

Text displays: Laetitia – Montréal, QC

An image of visa stamps appears beside Laetitia, with text above it.

Text displays: Working Visa

Picture of Laetitia in a government office – Australia

Text displays: My Travel Memories

Narrator: I travelled a lot. So I went to all four corners of France, but I was also able to travel around Europe, because it’s much cheaper, so I went to Malta, I went to Portugal, I went to Italy, I went to England, I went to Spain.

Picture of Laetitia in the French Alps – France

Picture of Laetitia with a city in the background – Italy

Narrator: So, for me, it’s the dream. You know, you’re going to immerse yourself in a culture that is not yours, that you do not know how it functions.

Picture of Laetitia by the Sydney Harbour Bridge – Australia

Narrator: So just research the little things, the differences that you have with that country, so when you get there it’s not necessarily a culture shock. You don’t take it in like in a negative way, but you know you were prepared, and you’re like, “Oh yeah, I read about this,” you know, like, “I knew this would happen.”

Picture of Laetitia by the ocean – Australia

Cut to Laetitia talking in front of an off-white background.

Narrator: That ability to create human connections with people that you would’ve never imagined, I think that for me is a beautiful gift, and to have friends from all over the world, that one day if I wanna go to London, I have 6 friends that live in London.

Picture of Laetitia in a red telephone booth – United Kingdom

Picture of Laetitia in Sydney Harbour with the Opera House in the background – Australia

Picture of Laetitia on a boat in the ocean – Australia

Cut to Laetitia talking in front of an off-white background.

Narrator: If I wanna go to Australia, I have friends in Australia. So not just creating a network of professional global contacts, but human contacts, and I think that’s very beautiful.

It then transitions to the text “International Experience Canada” and their tagline, with the logo of the Government of Canada at the bottom of the screen.

Text displays: International Experience Canada – Connecting you to a world of opportunities.

Finally, it transitions to a slide with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada bilingual logo and a copyright notice at the bottom of the screen.

Text displays: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, 2020.

It ends with the Canada wordmark on a black background.