SOCB54H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blue-Collar Worker, Job Satisfaction, High School Dropouts
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What is co-op education: alternation of academic and work terms (related to area of study) Match up students with work environment to the study they are studying in university. Easy, cost-effective way for firms to meet staffing needs (specific projects, short-term tasks: project for a short term project: got a pool of highly talented people. Frees-up senior staff for more complex tasks (because students are good, delegation is relatively risk-free) University students: source of new ideas and innovations. Co-op work terms: means of evaluating a potential new permanent hire. Work experience: co-op provides experience that education cannot give you, prof experience with waterloo co-op program: He went into sociology department, stated that there was a problem of getting work experience for students in sociology. Contacts, networks, references: o(cid:272)iologi(cid:272)al e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e to support the (cid:374)otio(cid:374) it"s (cid:374)ot (cid:862)(cid:449)hat(cid:863) you k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:271)ut (cid:862)(cid:449)ho(cid:863) you know, faint contacts or not someone who know can be crucial in getting a job.
