Job Assignments
Securing the basic position assignment from which a
student can progress is extremely important prior to employing a co-op/intern
student. Employers will find that retention of students is valuable to
program cost effectiveness and that retention is possible only when students
are challenged in positions that are commensurate with education content and
level.
Quality job assignments are:
- Appropriate to the students' disciplines and levels of studies at school.
- A position appropriate to the profession and is not a private residence of the employer.
- A position in which the student will be supervised by a practicing professional in the field.
- Challenging in regard to problems to be solved,
quality to be achieved, and production to be accomplished.
- Progressive in responsibility, maintaining a challenge.
- Flexible enough to allow adequate exploration
of interests, aptitudes and the business/industrial environment - to obtain
some career direction.
- Well conceived prior to requesting a student to
fill them.
The following procedures/steps may be utilized to
establish and maintain
quality job assignments:
- Institute a system to obtain feedback from
students including written evaluations of assignments from co-ops/interns and
exit interviews conducted by a co-op/intern coordinator.
- Utilize mid-term performance evaluations/checks
from mentors for the students.
- Use feedback from mentors and students to
improve/change job assignments.
- Ask university coordinators.
- Define/document job assignments in terms of
major/job/location for recruiting and hiring.
- Management should encourage continuous feedback
between co-op/intern supervisors and students.
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