Campus Career Centre

As a new employee there will be a number of important things that you will need to know about the Campus Career Centre.

Firstly, all student employment on campus should be arranged and managed through the Centre. If you have a project, whether internally or externally funded, management through the Career Centre ensures equitable employment, the integrity of your project, union considerations, and reduces the risk of negative outcomes.

Secondly, you should know about the wide arrange of services they make available. The Campus Career Centre can provide services and resources, such as facilitating employability skills workshops (e.g. resume writing, interview skills), hosting career events, recruiting sessions, etc.

Work-Op is a very popular program on campus. It starts at the end of the academic year when departments develop proposals for student positions. At the start of September, these vetted positions are posted, and students then have a week to contact the job supervisor directly.

Supervisors then collect resumes, perform interviews as appropriate, and then hire the best applicants for the job. Even better, the Work-op positions are available at no cost to the department (unless the position's wage rate needs to be topped up).

Co-operative Education is a model of education that incorporates experiential learning. A model where academic classroom learning and applied field based experience highly complement each other by offering full-time, paid, career-related employment. This model is currently used by the departments of Recreation Administration, Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management and Fisheries and Aquaculture. While most frequently, Co-op jobs are found and arranged by the Career Centre with the cooperation of employers, as a new employee you may will bring interesting resources with you - whether they're contacts in the business world or the insight that researching companies is similar to academic research and interviewing skills are similar whether journalistic or job oriented.

Naturally, while these programs use the Cooperative Education model, the Campus Career Centre experts are adept with other models of experiential learning, including internship, volunteering options, work-op, work experience and practicum placements.

Let's help the Campus Career Centre put education to work.