Employer Impact Awards Rubric: Impact in Global Engagement

Prompts (500-word maximum per prompt):

  1. Summarize how your organization’s focus on international relations and global engagement helps Waterloo co-op students in their professional growth and career development. For example, experiences like working abroad or working in Canada on projects that have an international component may expand a co-op student’s worldview.
  2. Describe your organization’s international relations and global engagement. Engagement could be through initiatives like hiring international students, working with international partners, presenting at international conferences or being an international organization.

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1. Summarize how your organization’s focus on international relations and global engagement helps Waterloo co-op students in their professional growth and career development. For example, experiences like working abroad or working in Canada on projects that have an international component that may expand a co-op student’s worldview.

Did the entry include the following?

  • Highlight specific ways Waterloo co-op students experience the organization’s global focus.
  • Experiences that helped students develop key skills such as cultural competency, global problem-solving, adaptability and an understanding of international business dynamics.
  • How students are involved in the organization’s global strategy. How the organization supports students in navigating these global opportunities, such as training, mentorship and/or settling into a new culture.
  • Examples of international-focused projects where students played a key role.
  • How these experiences expanded students’ understanding of global issues, enhanced their career readiness and inspired them to pursue globally focused roles in the future.
  • Measurable or tangible outcomes from students’ work (e.g., increased efficiency, strengthened partnerships, insights that shaped decisions, etc.).

Provides minimal detail and few/no examples

Provides some detail and adequate examples

Provides adequate detail and good examples

Provides excellent detail and strong, connected examples
2. Describe your organization’s international relations and global engagement. Engagement could be through initiatives like hiring international students, working with international partners, presenting at international conferences or being an international organization.

Did the entry include the following?

  • How the organization’s mission or vision relates to global engagement.
  • The value the organization places on international collaboration and global opportunities.
  • How does the organization leverage global partnerships, collaborations or networks to enhance operations or knowledge sharing?
  • Efforts to adapt products, services or strategies to meet the needs of diverse global audiences.
 Provides minimal detail and few/no examples Provides some detail and adequate examples Provides adequate detail and good examples Provides excellent detail and strong, connected examples