Early Talent Insights - Special Editions
In addition to our monthly insights, the Ted Rogers School of Management has developed other resource materials and special reports that are of interest to our employer partners.
Co-op Wages by Work Term and Industry: 2024-2025
Want to know if your co-op student offer is competitive?
In this Special Report, we share the co-op wage data for 2024-2025. Learn how co-op wages stack up across work terms, academic programs, and different industries—so you can benchmark, stay competitive, and attract top talent.
Supervising Students on a Co-op Work Term: A Resource Guide
This Special Report provides Co-op Supervisors with a number of resources to support you in coaching a student on work term.
Included are best practices in on-boarding, setting SMART goals and learning outcomes, completing end of term evaluations and how to best address performance issues.
Best Practices for Onboarding & Offboarding Co-op Students
Offering a structured Co-op Program is a critical strategy for many Canadian employers wishing to build a strong talent pipeline. Close to 50% of our graduates at the Ted Rogers School of Management accept a full-time role with an employer who offered them a work term.
Based on the results of a student survey conducted in 2022, learn what Co-op students appreciated the most in their onboarding process, and learn how you can create an experience that makes students want to stay.
An Overview of the Ted Rogers Co-op Prep Program
By offering an award-winning, industry-relevant, mandatory prep program for all students in the Ted Rogers Co-op program, we have positioned our students to contribute from Day 1 while on work term.
This unique program includes Technical Bootcamps (Excel, Tableau, Social Media Analytics, Salesforce, R, Python, and many more), a Psychometric Assessment, regular Coaching, and Mentoring.
In this special report, you will learn more about each level of the Prep Program and what employers say about its value.
Monthly Issues of 'Early Talent Insights
Each issue is based on the results of a poll shared each month with all students at the Ted Rogers School of Management. Completing the poll takes students mere seconds, but the overall analysis of the results is worth studying. Analyzed by year of study, academic program, and whether they participate in Co-op or not, each issue is guaranteed to be thought-provoking.
Co-op Wages by Work Term and Industry: 2023-2024
Most employers wish to offer their student candidates a competitive wage.
This Early Talent Insights report highlights the average wages for the Winter 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023, and Winter 2024 work terms. The wages are broken down by work term, with students on 4th work term earning, on average, 15 % more than students on 1st work term. In addition, we analyze the student wages by academic program, and by the top five industries.