Student Information :: Student Benefits

• Work experience students are paid for their work, and as a result are able to significantly defray their educational costs.
• Work experience students are more likely to have a job upon graduation than those without work experience.
• Work experience students gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between their job, school work and their expected career path as well as reporting greater intrinsic interest in their work.
• Students gain a variety of career development skills including resume preparation, interview skills, job search, a period of practical paid employment experience, and a network of related-industry contacts.
• Students gain work-related social skills, maturity, an increase in confidence and are better able to make meaningful career choices.
• Recent studies confirm that cooperative education work placements support the development of students’ communication and team work skills.
• Studies have also demonstrated that work experience students have higher levels of job satisfaction.