Business Work Experience I

The student business work experience is designed to provide a period of full-time, productive, paid employment in industry, not-for-profit organizations or government. The business work experience enables the student to apply classroom theory and skills to employment practices. For the duration of the project, students are expected to reflect on how they have developed as an individual and as part of a team as a means of developing a professional identity that highlights their distinctive self and to consider their own personal employment strategies while building professional networks. It provides the student, faculty, and the employer with a measuring device for assessing the student's approach to full-time employment. Students are responsible for securing their own work experience placement, with the assistance of the instructor, prior to the first week of the course.