Welcome!
The
Cooperative Education program provides employers with expert
service. As a COOP employer, the staff member can help you
define the responsibilities of a COOP job, set up
interviews, provides a flexible, affordable source of
motivated, competent workers. Employers find college
cooperative education a vital resource for human resource
management. Large and small companies, as well as public
sector and non profit organizations, have found COOP
invaluable for meeting short - term employment needs and
building a cost effective, productive system of recruiting
future graduates.
Advantages and Benefits
- Cooperative Education is
an excellent source of temporary personnel.
Many employers use COOP as a testing ground to
try out their “hand-picked” students as potential
permanent hires after graduation without the obvious
risks associated with hiring someone “off the
street” or fresh out of college.
- COOP students often
relieve much of the burden of your senior-level
personnel by performing some of the less complex or
demanding tasks taking up the valuable time of your
staff. Allowing,
your senior staff to complete more demanding or pressing
assignments. COOP
students also, are a source of temporary “relief” in
times of heavy workload demands.
3.
Hiring a COOP student gives the employer a
recruiting edge on campus because returning COOP
participants tell their friends and professors about the
experience they had while on assignment with you.
This on-campus publicity will help you attract more
students because a student’s recommendation about a
company has the highest possible credibility among other
students.
4.
COOP student salaries are typically 70% or 80%
of what you would pay a new college graduate and COOP’s
perform the same basic tasks at the same skill levels.
5.
COOP students hired permanently after
graduation have demonstrated a significantly reduced
turnover rate, a higher level of responsibility and greater
productivity than non COOP’s. Hiring COOP students from
PUPR just makes good business sense.
ALTERNATIVES
/ MODALITIES
Employers
have some alternatives or modalities to hire our students as
professional assistants.
These are:
·
The parallel modality where students work
during the day and study during the night.
·
The alternate modality where students work six
(6) months as full-time employee and
study the
next six
(6) months as full-time student.
·
Internship modality where students work as a
full-time employee during the summer session.
RESPONSIBILITIES
PUPR has
developed a COOP Program with minimal requirements for our
COOP employers. We
do not set salaries, although we do give you some typical
salary ranges for most job positions and majors.
We also, do not pre-select or pre-screen students for
your positions. But
we do work with you if you have special requirements for
class standing, grade-point averages, minimum course work
taken, or citizenship requirements (government contractors)
of prospective students.
Our
employers have only three (3) responsibilities:
1.
Each PUPR COOP employer must provide
supervised work experience directly related to the
student’s major or career goals.
2.
The work must be paid.
3. PUPR asks that each employer COOP supervisor assist us in
evaluating each student at the end of the COOP
assignment by completing a two page evaluation form.
GET
INVOLVED IN COOP
Once you
determine your COOP needs, contact
our office
at (787) 765-5974 or (787) 758-7915, and:
