Cheryl Lloyd, a hard-working team player in the Communications field, is seeking employment within that field.

She views communications as an exciting and challenging field, full of possibilities. Her goal? To facilitate the passing of information from one individual to another, using whatever medium is necessary.

When asked about her hopes for employment, she grins. "I can do a lot within the communications field. All I'm looking for is the chance to prove that I can do the work. It's funny. You can't get a job without experience, but you can't experience without a job. In once sense, I have an advantage over some university graduates. I don't have to unlearn all that academia has taught me. Some of it seems to be a bit ... um ... well, impractical for the workplace reality. I have a good grounding in the basics. What I know, I know well. Now all I have to do is learn how to do things 'the company way'."

"I'd like to remain in Prince Albert, 'though. It's an interesting city, and the people are terrific. It's going places, and I'd like to grow with it."

Cheryl has earned the honour of being the only person in ten years, to pass the 'English Grammar Diagnostic Exam' (a mandatory program for her Audiovisual Technician's Certificate (1997)) without requiring tutorial assistance. According to the program's creator, not even university graduates have done that.

Aside from her command of the English language, Cheryl speaks and writes some French and German, HTML, and is currently learning JavaScript and related programming languages.

"Of course, I don't know everything," she chuckles during a recent interview. "I cheat. I make sure I know where to find it."

Cheryl's sense of humour is evident when she's asked to list the positions she'd like to fill within the company. "Job titles are like colours, everyone has a different idea. I don't think it's so much a question of where do I fit in, but where does the company need me to fit in? I'm flexible."

Cheryl remembers her first web pages (1998) with laughter. "I didn't want to have pages that were trendy. I wanted something more elegant and long-lasting, something timeless in its simplicity. I did something like ten pages in Clarisworks. It took about 2 weeks to get everything looking the way I wanted it to look. And then I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't upload to the site. No one told me I had to convert them to HTML before I put them up!"

Since then, Cheryl has discovered HTML (using Dreamweaver), animation (Director), and is teaching herself to understand JavaScript. "There's a lot of programs out there, and a lot of different types of programming. My major problem is that I don't have the facilities to be able to write and test some of the more complex programming. So, I do the next best thing. I investigate. I learn. I try to teach others what I've learned."

When asked about her teaching, Cheryl readily admits that the second fastest way for her to learn to do something is to teach it. "You can't teach unless you understand the system," she says. What's the fastest? She smiles. "Doing it."

A newsanchor at the local radio station has had the opportunity to work with Cheryl. "She learns quickly, and takes direction well," he has been known to remark. "She's not afraid to ask questions."

Cheryl has only one question for the Human Resources of the company. "Where do you need me, and when do I start?"