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where the building is. All I want is the students to know where the building is.”
From then on, all our buildings have had signs in the back, toward the university.
One of the things I realized was that to get strong co-op students, you had to
start early because, by the second year, you’ve lost them already to some other
company. So we started hiring first- and second-year students, knowing that
they were not really going to be full-time employees for 3 to 4 years after that.
It was a 3- to 4-year investment we started making with students early on
because I knew their value. We treated them like full-time employees. We’re
the largest co-op employer in Canada.