• We will continue to post jobs until all students are employed for spring.
• We will schedule interviews, unless you prefer to do so.
• You may interview candidates by phone or video conference.
• During the continuous employment period, we will extend job offers to students, unless you prefer to do so.

Students are available from the programs below.

Four-month work terms, May through August:

Eight-month work terms, May through December:

• Applied Water Science
• Business
• Master of Arts in Business Economics 

Available for 12 or 16 months:

• Professional Experience Program in Computer Science
• User Experience Design

• We will begin posting jobs for fall on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
• We will accept job postings for the primary recruiting period until Wednesday, May 19. (We will include jobs we receive after May 19 in the continuous employment period.)
• We are scheduling interviews by phone or video conference from Wednesday, May 26 through Thursday, June 3.
• Please submit your rankings of students by 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 3.
• You will learn the results of the match in the afternoon on Tuesday, June 8. 

Continuous employment period for Fall 2021:

• We will begin posting jobs for the continuous employment period on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.
• We will continue to post jobs until all students are employed for fall.
• We will arrange interviews for any business day.
• During the continuous employment period, we will extend job offers to students, unless you prefer to do so.

Students from the programs below seek work for the fall term.

Available four months, September through December:

• Business
• Business and Computer Science
• Business and Financial Mathematics
• Business and Mathematics
• Business Technology Management
• Computer Science
• Data Science
• Economics
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Finance

Available for eight months, September through April:

• Business
• Business Technology Management

Available for 12 months, September through August

• Professional Experience Program in Computer Science
• Use Experience Design

Beginning in September 2021, employers may recruit co-op students for work terms beginning in January 2022. Recruiting dates to be announced.

Available for four months, January through April:

• Business
• Business and Computer Science
• Business and Financial Mathematics
• Business and Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Data Science
• Economics
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Finance

Available for eight months, January through August:

• Applied Water Science

After we have shared the results of the match with you and the students, we enter the continuous employment period.

We can arrange interviews any business day during this period. During the pandemic, all interviews take place by phone or video conference.

If you prefer to arrange interviews yourself, please let us know the details so we don't schedule students for other interviews at the same time. 

After your interviews, let us know which students you agree to hire. A co-op coordinator will extend employment offers to students directly on your behalf and let you know which students accept your offer.

We accept job postings and arrange interviews until all students have found employment.

During the primary recruiting period, the Co-op Office will schedule all your interviews. All interviews currently take place by phone or video conference.

You will rank the students you interviewed, and they will rank you. By ranking students, you agree to hire the one with whom you are "matched."

Please do not communicate directly with students you have interviewed during the primary recruiting period until after we have told you the results of the matching and ranking process. 

Employers who interview during the primary interview period rank their candidates, and students rank employers. If you interview co-op students during the primary interview period, you will use Navigator to submit your rankings online.

Please submit your rankings by 9 p.m. on the final day of the primary interview period.

Once you have conducted interviews, please do not contact your applicants until we have communicated the results of the match to you.

How the Ranking and Matching Process Works

You provide us with your rankings online, according to our advertised deadline. (If you miss the deadline, we will inform students that rankings are not available for your position.)

Students rank the positions for which they have been interviewed, according to our advertised deadline.

Employer and student rankings are combined to produce a sum, or total score, for each combination.

Students are matched with employers sequentially, based on total scores and the principle of “low score wins.” Total scores of two are linked, followed by total scores of three, then four, and five, and so on, until all possible combinations have been exhausted. Ties begin to occur at total scores of three, and are broken randomly.

A match at 1-1 occurs when:

The lowest possible total score is two. There are no ties at this level, as you have only one first-choice per position, and students may rank only one employer as their first choice.

By ranking a student #1, you are extending an offer of employment to him or her. The student accepts the offer by ranking your position #1, which results in an automatic match.

Once students and employers matched at total scores of two have been eliminated, Navigator links all combinations with total scores of three. Scores of three can result from either of the following combinations:

Ties will be broken randomly by the program.