Our co-op program is carefully designed, and then tailored, to meet the individual needs of employers and the educational goals of student participants. The UC program is uncluttered. There are no required formal employer contracts, no long-term obligations, and paperwork is kept to a minimum. We review job descriptions and the employer's plans for co-ops and identify students for available positions.
Employers follow their own selection procedures.
Depending on the employer's preference, we will prescreen candidates, forward resumes, or arrange on-campus interviews. Participating employers hire the student and train and manage him or her as they would any other employee in the company or agency. While on cooperative learning quarters, students are subject to the same policies and practices of the cooperative employer as are regular employees. Due to the demand for students in some of our majors, we recommend that new co-op employers initiate their program with sophomore students, since generally very few upperclass students are available for referral. We do, of course, require that co-op firms be equal opportunity, affirmative action employers.