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CECA launches 2016 Annual Report
A Note from Peggy Jarvie, Executive Director, Co-operative Education & Career Action
Growth, new records, new milestones and most of all, world-class students. In an ever-changing environment, these are the constants of Waterloo’s co-op and career action programs.
The 2015 fall term saw us achieve an overall co-op employment rate of 99 percent. We followed that with over 7,000 jobs filled in the winter 2016 term. We accomplished both of these feats as the number of students enrolled in co-op approaches the 20,000 mark.
Our Centre for Career Action has been a hub of activity to all Waterloo students, in both the co-op and regular streams. Over the past fiscal year, over 2,900 students took advantage of our individual career advising sessions while over 4,800 accessed drop-in career or co-op consultation services. Behind the scenes, we launched the appropriately-named Career Hub to provide even better online service to our students.
That Herculean effort isn’t possible without the hard work and dedication of our CECA staff and faculty partners. Our team processed over a million co-op job applications last year and close to 60,000 interviews - including 1,425 in a single day.
We don’t sacrifice quality for quantity either. Our students are top notch and have the accolades to prove it. This year, one of them took home the rare co-op “triple crown” by winning the national, provincial and faculty co-op student of the year awards for the contributions they made on their work term. With talent like that, it’s no wonder we attract employers from all over the world to recruit them.
I hope you enjoy the report.
There's still time to give to 2016 United Way campaign
A message from the United Way Campaign.
While the October days of seeing the Dean of Arts racing his colleagues down the hallway on a plasma car are over, and the Advancement team has hung up their Jersday Thursdays jerseys for another year, the University of Waterloo’s United Way campaign is still accepting donations.
We’re at 84 percent of our $265,000 goal and we know that with your support, we’ll hit that goal. You can make a payroll, credit card, cheque or cash donation through the University of Waterloo’s ePledge site. Review our instructions on how to use the new online giving tool.
While we continue to work towards our $265,000 goal, we are thrilled to announce that the 2016 campaign has seen 101 new donors come on board, helping us surpass our goal of recruiting 75 new donors to the campaign’s 75th anniversary. And the support of groups across campus has been fantastic. Just one example: the Smile Cookie drive organized by Food Services at their Tim Hortons locations brought in over $2,500! Thank you!
Why donate? The University’s United Way campaign supports local agencies that could help a colleague find the source of their stress and learn how to handle it better, or give a student the chance to gather self-esteem and reach their full potential. When we support our community, we all benefit.
Whether you’ve already made a donation, or are thinking of making a donation, we sincerely thank you.
Registration opens for WatITis conference
The WatITis Committee has announced that the 14th annual WatITis (Waterloo Information Technology and Information Systems) conference will take place on December 6 in the Science Teaching Complex (STC).
Registration opens today.
This year's keynote speaker is Professor Larry Smith from the Department of Economics.
Visit the conference website for more information and to register. Join the WatITis mailing list to stay current on conference updates. Follow the conference on Twitter at @WatITisConf.
Registration is free, but there is a $50 charge if you register and then don't show up.
Wednesday's notes
Today in "do you know where your university president is?" On Wednesday, November 9, President Feridun Hamdullahpur visited the University of Hong Kong, joined the Canadian Chamber of Commerce for lunch (and dinner later), and met with Consulate General Jeff Nankivell as part of his travels in China this week.
The WCMS developer drop-in lab returns this Thursday, November 10, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., in MC 2060. If you’re developing for the WCMS, or want to start, and are stuck, in need of guidance, or aren’t sure how to do things “the WCMS way”, you can get help by dropping by and talking with a member of the WCMS developer team. Everyone is welcome – it doesn’t matter if you’re full time or part time, contract or coop. External developers are encouraged to work on projects that may be integrated with the central build or deployed to specific sites.
The next WCMS developer drop-in lab will be on December 8, also from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., in MC 2060.
Community flu clinics are taking place today and tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Student Life Centre. Everyone is welcome, and there's no appointment necessary.
On Wednesday, November 16, Renison is hosting an event called “Explore the World Through Language: Student Panel Discussion”, featuring Waterloo students who have taken credit and non-credit courses to learn English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
"We’d love to welcome the UWaterloo community to come and join us for this enlightening talk which will explore student experiences of the language learning process; discuss barriers faced by Waterloo students when learning a new language; and strategies used by our students in strengthening their language skills," says a statement from Renison's English Language Institute.
Employers on campus next week hosting employer information sessions include Microsoft and Bell. Visit the employer information sessions calendar for more details.