March 19 Agenda and Meeting Minutes

Agenda:

Date: March 19th 2024 Time: 5:45 pm

Location: BMH 1005

Minutes:

AHSUM Meeting Minutes

BMH 1005

Speaker: Mistry, Krupa Secretary: DeSouza, Rochelle

 

Attendance

The following members were present:

• Mistry, Krupa
• DeSouza, Rochelle
• Halley, Olivia
• Szajbely, Katie
• Jalili, Ailin
• Mughal, Aisha
• Dao, Kelly
• Seedat, Zaakirah
• Sidhu, Roopneet
• Zohdy, Saleena
• Lam, Brendan
• Marsili, Angelica
• Deng, Kevin

Regrets: Sahni, Divija ; Protacio, Jenna

Preliminaries

Call to Order

President, Mistry called the meeting to order at 05:45 p.m. 

Highs and Lows

High and lows will not be recorded since they are personal reflections.

Regular Agenda

Approval of Agenda

Approval of Meeting Minutes

President

VP of Internal Affairs

VP of Education

VP of Finance

Directors  

Representatives

Reports

Other Business

Janice Bruin and Gabrielle Smith from Co-operative and Experiential Education joined the AHSUM Executive meeting. As of Fall 2023 there are recruiting term advisors. This is someone assigned to students through WaterlooWorks. The advisor assigned to you stays advised every recruiting term. There are also work-term advisors assigned geographically. There are career advisors as well in CCD. Co-op connection is a student-run social connection. It is a place students can go where they can look for others in the same city or region to connect. In November and December, student consultations were conducted in the Faculty of Health. They had conversations about the pain points, what was working well, and what was not working well. There were key themes across consultations of different years. Pace and volume were something that came up a lot among 2A students. They are going to communicate with 1B students that they have access to PD1 early to minimize workload in 2A. A session was held for 1B students last term. A video was created from the student consultation which is geared to first year students. They are creating a 1-peger toolkit for success geared toward. Low salaries were a theme throughout consultations. People who were part of consultation were asked to share gaps about employment opportunities. Job clusters are often not highly relevant to programs of study. They are working on cleaning this up so that jobs that are visible are more relevant. The department has created a series of videos about search functionality on WaterlooWorks. The video is being shared by sending it in an email with access to PD1 at the end of July to all 1B students. Housing and relocation was a hot topic. With salaries being what they are, relocating is very cost prohibitive. A new housing project has been created. The first phase is linking people to current resources. Future phases of the project have not been determined yet. Teh winter employment rate is at around 97-98%. In relation to themes from consultations, the department knows there are a lot of challenges for students finding co-op right now. With remote opportunities, there are lots of universities also looking to fill co-op jobs. The traditional Hire Waterloo job board on WaterlooWorks have some employers who don’t follow cycle timelines. To pull those employers in, they are shifting some of the job boards in WaterlooWorks which will come into effect in the spring. There will be two co-op job boards: a full-cycle board (the one that Waterloo has previously been using) and a new employment-student board. The new board allows all communications to be between students and employers. The other job boards will remain mostly the same. All jobs on the employment-student board will be vetted by co-op and therefore, eligible for a co-op work-term credit. Students need to fill out a short form to submit to co-op when they have secured a job from the new board. Staying this spring, when submitting a form, applications and interviews will be taken out of the full cycle service job board. The form these to be submitted by noon the day before an interview to be removed and two days before ranking to be removed from rankings. Something that AHSUM is hoping to know is when in the recruitment cycle most 2A students have been getting jobs and what is the rate of employment for 2A students. What is the percentage of people looking for their first work-term who dropped co-op? - about 40%. What information is available about work/job satisfaction? CEE collects rate my work-term data. CEE categorizes jobs with a classification code. A pie chart from the dashboard shows where students work by industry which co-op can share with AHSUM. All jobs at WaterlooWorks must meet the minimum wage. Unpaid and underpaid jobs that might affect health are hospitals and clinics that don’t have a history of paying students. The sport industry often has interns which are unpaid as well. Unpaid or underpaid guidelines may be approved under certain stipulations.  CEE will share presentation slides with AHSUM following the meeting. Most students rank a job as 1. Less than a handful of students have used their ‘not interested’.  

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