Once you’ve clarified your goals, you’d want to immediately start taking steps towards achieving them. To do this, you can think about the tasks that you must complete on a regular basis to meet your targets. For example, if one of your goals is to complete a course on time management, your regular task might be to spend at least 2 days a week finishing the units in that course. This is called task management: the practice of creating and managing a to-do list. Nowadays, there are a number of digital task management tools at your disposal, some examples being Todoist, Microsoft To Do, and Habitica. This course is the third in a series of courses on time management for beginners and it will cover the basics of task management. You will receive an introduction to one highly powerful and easy to use task management software- Todoist- and learn how to create better to-do lists. Learning objectives: – Learn about the common mistake that many people make when creating to-do lists – Learn how you can avoid making this mistake – Learn one way of effectively organizing your tasks and using task management software like Todoist – Learn how to add and schedule tasks in Todoist – Learn the different scheduling options available on Todoist – Learn how to process your tasks in Todoist (by adding tags, for example) – Learn how to retrieve completed tasks in Todoist – Learn about priorities in Todoist
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.
