When you’re on an important task and the end of the workday is approaching fast, it can be tempting to stay late, or even take work home to finish. You might feel like you have to, to keep the boss happy. It’s fine to do this occasionally, but don’t make it a habit. Striking a good work/life balance is vital for your well-being, as well as your job. Getting it wrong could cause your mental and physical health to suffer, which isn’t great for your productivity. It can impact everyone around you, both in and out of work. In fact, many say the goal is having a good life balance – and your job is just one part of that! By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: • Understand the need for a good work-life balance • Manage staff workloads to help productivity • Use strategies to make sure the balance is right for you Why take this course? It sounds morbid, but this isn’t a rehearsal – you only get one life, so making time for everything you need to fit in is essential. This course will give you useful tips (both for employees and those leading people) on encouraging a good life balance and managing workloads. See how this will help maintain and improve productivity and keep your health and well-being levels up. 10 mins | SCORM | Infographic
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
