Employers may recruit for four-month or eight-month terms beginning in September 2020.

(Students from User Experience Design and Professional Experience Program in Computer Science are available for work terms of up to 12 months, from September 2020 through August 2021.)

• We are accepting job postings for the continuous employment period, which began on Monday, June 8, 2020.
• Interviews are taking place by phone or video-conference, such as Skype, due to the need for physical distancing.
• Please give us 72 business hours' notice to schedule interviews.
• Please let us know the interview date, start time, interview length, interval between interviews, and length of lunch break, along with the names of candidates and interviewers.
  Example: "Wednesday, June 23; 10 a.m. start; 30-minute interviews at 10-minute intervals; 30-minute lunch."

Employers may recruit for four-month terms beginning in January 2021.

First Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs for the first recruiting period on September 15, 2020.
• We will accept postings until September 28.
• We will schedule interviews to take place by phone or video conference from September 30 through October 5.
• Please let us know your rankings of students by 9 p.m. on October 5.
• We will let you know the results of the match on October 8.

Second Recruiting Period (new!)

• We will begin posting jobs for the second recruiting period on October 9.
• We will accept postings until October 14.
• We will schedule interviews to take place by phone or video conference from October 15 to 21.
• Please let us know your rankings of students by 9 p.m. on October 21.
• We will let you know the results of the match on October 26.

Continuous Employment Period:

• We will begin posting jobs for the continuous employment period on October 27.
• We will accept postings into January 2021, as long as students remain available.
• We will schedule interviews to take place whenever it is convenient for you. (We prefer to give students three days' notice, when possible.)
• We, or you, will make direct offers to the students.

• Recruiting dates TBA

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.