Students from the programs below will start seeking work in May for the fall 2022 work 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 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
• User Experience Design

Primary recruiting period for Winter 2022:

• If you entered your rankings of students by October 7, we will let you know the results of the match in the afternoon on Wednesday, October 13.

• The continuous employment period begins on October 14.
• You may interview students any business day.

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 Finance

Available for eight months, January through August:

• Water Science and Environmental Health  (January 2023)

Students will be available from the programs below for the Spring 2022 work term. Most students will begin applying to job postings in January.

Early Recruiting Period for CPA Firms

• CPA firms may recruit co-op students for the spring 2022 and fall 2022 work terms at the same time.
• You may hire students for four months or eight months, beginning in May or September. (May through August 2022; May through December 2022; September through December 2022; September 2022 through April 2023.)
• We will start posting jobs on Thursday, November 4, 2021, and will continue to accept postings until Friday, December 3.
• We will arrange virtual interviews to take place on Tuesday, January 4, and Wednesday, January 5, 2022.
• Please enter your rankings on Navigator by 9 p.m. on Wednesday, January 5.
• We will let you know the results of the match on the afternoon of Friday, January 7, 2022.

Primary Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs for the primary recruiting period on January 7, 2022, and will continue accepting postings through January 19.
• We will arrange interviews, online or by phone, from Monday, January 24 through Friday, January 28 and on Monday, January 31.
• Please enter your rankings of students on Navigator by 9 p.m. on January 31.
• We will tell you the results of the match in the afternoon on Thursday, February 3.

Continuous Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs on Friday, February 4, 2022.
• During the continuous recruiting period, you may interview students any business day.

Programs available for eight-month work terms, May through December:

• Business
• Master of Arts in Business Economics 
• Master of Business Administration
• Water Science and Environmental Health

Programs available for work terms of 12 to 16 months, beginning in May:

• Professional Experience Program in Computer Science
•  User Experience Design

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 candidates 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.

By ranking a student, you are extending the student an offer of employment, if you are matched. The student accepts the offer by ranking your position.

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.

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.

If you rank a student #1 and they rank you #1, you are automatically matched at a score of two. A match at 1-1 occurs when:

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:

The program breaks ties randomly.