Benefits of Co-Op
- Explore career options, interests and abilities through work experience.
- Decide if a chosen career does or does not meet their expectations, prior to investing time and money at the post-secondary level.
- Develop and enhance employability skills.
- Students do not miss instructional time from other courses while attending work experience.
- Learn the discipline of hard work through an extensive timeline for course work.
- Develop tight collaboration with classmates through all-day classes with the same students
- Complete mandatory 30 hour work/volunteer requirement for the Grad Transitions program.
- Network with and obtain valuable references and contacts in a field of their choice.
- Build on their learning in Planning 10.
- Develop evidence to support their Grad Transitions requirements.
- Accumulate employer references for broad-based applications for post-secondary admissions, ie. UBC or certain Business, Science or Arts degrees.
- Decide if a chosen career does or does not meet their expectations, prior to investing time and money at the post-secondary level.
- Develop and enhance employability skills.
- Students do not miss instructional time from other courses while attending work experience.
- Learn the discipline of hard work through an extensive timeline for course work.
- Develop tight collaboration with classmates through all-day classes with the same students
- Complete mandatory 30 hour work/volunteer requirement for the Grad Transitions program.
- Network with and obtain valuable references and contacts in a field of their choice.
- Build on their learning in Planning 10.
- Develop evidence to support their Grad Transitions requirements.
- Accumulate employer references for broad-based applications for post-secondary admissions, ie. UBC or certain Business, Science or Arts degrees.