ENGINEERING CO-OP PROGRAM

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Table of Contents
Viewing Your Transcript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Signing Up for an Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Updating Your Contact Information and Work Term Details Online. . . . . . . . . . . 41
Submitting Learning Objectives Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Submitting Evaluations Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Employer Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Student Evaluations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Checking the Status of your Submitted Co-op Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Log Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
10 Independent Job Search Techniques 44
Co-op Success Lies in Your Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Steps for a Successful Independent Job Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Developing a List of Network Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Creating Your 30-Second Personal Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Researching and Targeting Employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Getting Approval from Your Co-op Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Making the Contact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Tracking Contacts and Managing the Follow-up Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
11 Interviewing Skills 48
Interview Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Purpose of the Job Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Components of a Job Interview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Examples: Appropriate and Inappropriate Interview Questions . . . . . . . . . . . 50
The Behaviour-Based Interview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
START Technique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Seven Key Performance Skill Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Examples of Behaviour-Based Interview Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Interview Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Pointers for Job Interviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Interview Contact Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
12 Understanding the Workplace 57
Timeline for Your First Three Weeks in the Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Guidelines for the Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Ethics and Confidentiality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Unacceptable Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59