Employer Connect is a tool that connects Employers To Students that are participating in CO-OPs, Internships Or Field Placements though Post Secondary Education Institutions in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
What is a Co-op?
Co-ops are paid work terms, typically 4 months in length for a student in a Post-Secondary Education (PSE) institution with an experiental learning component to the education program related to their field of study.
What is an Internship?
Internships are paid work-terms that is 4 to 16 months in length and take place near the end of the students related education program allowing them to apply the skills and knowledge they have acquired from their post secondary education.
What is a Field Placement
Field Placements are short-term, unpaid work placements that provide students with supervised hands-on experience within their field of study.
Brock University – St. Catherine’s, ON
The Co-op program at Brock relating to Education gives employers the opportunity chance to select students that have job experience in the field while at the same time have a well-rounded education. Employers can choose students for, four-month terms.
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: co-op@brocku.ca
- Phone: 905-688-5550 ext. 4325
- Website: https://brocku.ca/ccee/hirebrocku/co-op-hiring/
Administrator Office:
- E-mail: teaccounts@brocku.ca
- Phone: 905-688-5550 ext. 3341
Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology – Toronto, ON
Centennial College offers internship and field placement opportunities related to paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services. Internships and field placements vary in length.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
Participating programs:
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning – Kitchener, ON
Co-op & Career Services contributes to client success by developing and delivering career and employment related services to students, alumni and employers. Employers can choose a student for four 4-month paid work term opportunities that generally alternate with academic semesters
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: cooped@centennialcollege.ca
- Phone: 416-289-5209
- Website: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/programs-courses/co-op-programs/hiring-a-co-op-student/
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology – London, ON
Fanshawe College is one of the leaders in the development of co-operative education at the college level in Canada with over 30 co-op programs, more than any other college in Canada! Normally, work semesters are four months in duration but in some programs there are double co-ops of eight months or even longer. The minimum duration is 10 weeks of full-time employment.
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Co-operative Education Office:
- E-mail: coop@fanshawec.ca
- Phone: 519-452-4294
- Website: https://myfuture.fanshawec.ca/home.htm
George Brown College of Appled Arts and Technology – Toronto, ON
Work experience employers enjoy the benefits of a skilled employee working for them for a short term, as well as the cost and potential tax advantages that go with it. Co-op and field placements vary in length.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops for Professional occupations in businessco-opse
Internships
No participating programs
Field Placements
Participating programs:
- Assaulted Women’s and Children’s Counsellor/Advocate
- Child and Youth Care
- Child and Youth Care (Fast-track)
- Community Worker
- Dental Office Administration
- Early Childhood Education
- Early Childhood Education (Fast-Track)
- Early Childhood Education (Part-Time)
- Early Childhood Education (Consecutive Diploma/Degree)
- Early Childhood Management Certificate (Post Diploma)
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management
- Honours Bachelor of Early Childhood Leadership (Bridging Courses)
- Honours Bachelor of Early Childhood Leadership (Fast-Track)
- Office Administration – Health Services
- Pre-Community Services
- Professional Development – “Are You a Reflective Practitioner”
- Paralegal
- Social Service Worker
- Social Service Worker (Fast-track)
Contact Directory
GBCareers and Field Education Office:
- E-mail: coopinfo@georgebrown.ca
- Phone: 416-415-5000 ext. 2143
- Website: https://gbcareers.georgebrown.ca/employers/employerOverview.htm
Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology – Barrie, ON
Georgian College partners with over 6,200 employers, and more than 4,100 of our students gain experience in co-ops every year. Students are available for co-op work terms or seasonal employment at various times of the year. Most work terms start in January, May or September and are typically four months in length; some programs have 8 month work terms.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Co-operative Education and Career Success Centre:
- E-mail: careerandcoop@georgiancollege.ca
- Phone: 705-728-1968 ext. 1340
- Website: http://www.georgiancollege.ca/student-services/co-op-and-career-services/employers-tab/
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning – Etobicoke, ON
Humber’s co-op and field placement program allows employers to hire students with extensive knowledge and full range of skills needed to facilitate business operations. Co-op and field placement vary in length.
Field Placements
Participating programs:
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: enquiry@humber.ca
- Phone: 416-675-3111
- Website: http://careers.humber.ca/employserv.php
Placement Advisor Team:
- E-mail: antoniette.dimarco@humber.ca
- Phone: 416-675-6622 ext. 3662
McMaster University – Hamilton, ON
The Social Sciences Internship Program is a voluntary program that allows undergraduate students to actively engage in paid work opportunities and explore careers in fields related to their academic studies over a 4, 8, 12 or 16 month period in a part-time or full-time capacity.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops for Professional occupations in busco-opse
Internships
Participating programs:
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- Phone: 905-525-9140
- Website: http://www.mcmaster.ca/services/career.cfm
Faulty of Social Sciences:
- E-mail: socscfac@mcmaster.ca
- Phone: 905-525-9140
Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology – Hamilton, ON
As an employer Mohawk College will help you to find the right fit for your workforce needs. Be it a Co-op, full-time, part-time, seasonal, or contractual worker Mohawk College will have students and graduates ready to fill the gap.
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: careerready@mohawkcollege.ca
- Phone: 905-575-2167 Toll-Free: 1-888-546-COOP(2667)
- Website: https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/programs/cooperative-education/services-for-employers
Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology – Welland, ON
Employers are continuously recruiting for upcoming work terms at Niagara College. If you have work which is labeled ‘temporary, casual, or summer’, or some other category, it would probably provide good working experience for Niagara College enthusiastic co-op students.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Niagara College Employment Support (Co-op):
- E-mail: ncemploymentsupport@niagaracollege.ca
- Phone: Welland Campus (905) 735-2211 ext. 7777; Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus (905) 641-2252 ext. 4165
- Website: https://mycareer.niagaracollege.ca/employer/overview.htm
General Inquiries:
- E-mail: info@niagaracollege.ca
- Phone: 905-735-2211 ext. 7559
Queen’s University – Kingston, ON
Queen’s University provides employers with students who can participate in 20 weeks of placements, including an alternative practicum that can be done outside a school setting and anywhere in the world as long as it is related to the program. Queen’s also offers 12-16 month paid and professionally supervised work terms for second and third year students depending on the program.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
Participating programs:
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: qocr@queensu.ca
- Website: http://careers.queensu.ca/employers-recruiters
Seneca College – North York, ON
Co-operative Education programs give employers the opportunity to select students to use what they’ve learned in the classroom during a paid work period. Co-op programs vary in length.
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
- Public Administration – (Optional Co-op)
- Honours Bachelor of Child Development – (Co-op)
- Business Administration – Human Resources – (Optional Co-op)
- Global Hospitality Business Development – (Optional Co-op)
- Global Hospitality Operations Management – (Optional Co-op)
Participating Graduate Programs:
Internship
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: Career.Services@senecacollege.ca
- Phone: 416-491-5050 ext. 22192
- Website: http://www.senecacollege.ca/employers
Co-op Business Developer:
- E-mail: Alison.Badali@senecacollege.ca
- Phone: 416-491-5050 ext. 22233
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning – Oakville, ON
Students can be hired in one of two ways – hired directly by your company or through Sheridan’s Contract Services. Contract Services gives employers the ability to get the benefit of employing a co-op student, but on a contract basis – giving you more flexibility in hiring. Sheridan College offers a minimum of 360 hours for Co-op Diploma Programs, or 14 consecutive full-time weeks (or a minimum of 420 hours in total) for Internship Degree Programs.
Internships
Participating programs:
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: coopenq@sheridancollege.ca
- Phone: 905-845-9430 ext. 2649
- Website: https://www.sheridancollege.ca/life-at-sheridan/student-services/co-op/info-for-employers.aspx
Trent University – Peterborough, ON
At Trent University, employers can choose students from an array of programs at the School of Education. As part of the 2-year Consecutive Bachelor of Education program, Teacher Candidates are required to complete 75 hours as part of the The Alternative Field Experience Placements.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
Participating programs:
University of Guelph – Guelph, ON
The University of Guelph and Guelph Humber offers a variety of undergraduate co-op opportunities for professional occupations in education, law and social, community and government services. Field placements are delivered in concert with employer partners, constitutes part of the student’s formal education and is available in over 35 majors for students. Co-ops & field placements vary in length.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Field Placements
Participating programs:
Contact Directory
Cooperative Education and Career Services:
- E-mail: recruit@uoguelph.ca
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52323
- Website: https://www.recruitguelph.ca/cecs/employers-institutions/post-jobs
Career & Placement Coordinator, Early Childhood:
- E-mail: jenni.mastroianni@guelphhumber.ca
- Phone: 416-798-1331 ext. 6235
University of Ontario Institute of Technology – Hamilton, ON
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) offers optional co-op and internship opportunities in a wide range of programs. All 16-month Consecutive BEd students take part in several field experience placements. Concurrent Education students will have 100 days of school experience/ The Practicum course for the Criminology and Justice program consists of 100 hours of fieldwork.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail:
- Phone: 905-721-8668 ext. 3824
Faculty of Education:
- E-mail: faculty-of-education@uoit.ca
- Phone:905-721-3181
University of Toronto – Toronto, ON
Eligible U of T students with an opportunity to work on campus during the academic year and gain academic/career related experience. Field placements vary in length.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: employer@mail.careers.utoronto.ca
- Phone: 416-978-8000
- Website: https://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/for-employers/post-opportunities
University of Waterloo – Waterloo, ON
The University of Waterloo operates the largest post secondary co-op program of its kind in the world. Some sequences begin in the first year of study while others begin in the second year. Co-op positions are generally 4 months in length, with some lasting 8 months.
Internships
No available internships in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: hire.talent@uwaterloo.ca
- Phone: 519-888-4026
- Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/hire/
Western University – London, ON
Employers can choose students out of Western’s two year, four-term Bachelor of Education program. These students can provide an employer field placements of a length of 27 weeks.
The Faculty of Social Science offers a summer internship program for 2nd and 3rd year students, to provide them with a valuable degree-related work experience (May August). Internships are a minimum of 10 weeks to a maximum of 4 months, full-time paid work terms.
CO-OPs
No available co-ops in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Internships
Participating programs:
Contact Directory
Hirewesternu:
- E-mail: hirewesternu@uwo.ca
- Phone: 19-661-3619
- Website: http://hirewesternu.ca/hire_western_talent/index.html
Wilfred Laurier – Waterloo, ON
Employers can find students who often take the majors below, that can lead them into the education sector. Arts co-op students complete two work terms of four months each in the summer following their second and third years of study.
Laurier’s Faculty of Education offers a Bachelor of Education degree provides employers, prepared students that will learn hands-on education necessary to go into the classroom, as well as the theoretical and research background to further knowledge and help in other areas of education. Employers can choose a student for at least 2 days each week in a Professional Development School (PDS) placement throughout 2 years, in addition to your 5 block practicum placements for the Bachelor of Education (BEd) program.
CO-OPs
Participating programs:
Internships
Contact Directory
Wilfrid Laurier Co-operative Education:
- E-mail: lauriercoop@wlu.ca
- Phone: 519-884-0710 ext. 4484
- Website: https://navigator.wlu.ca/co-op/employers/why-laurier.htm
Faculty of Education:
- E-mail: eduadmissions@wlu.ca and edugrad@wlu.ca
- Phone: 519-884-0710 ext. 4966 (Graduate program only)
Faculty of Social Work:
- E-mail: socialwork@wlu.ca
- Phone: 519-884-0710 ext.5201
- Website:
York University – Toronto, ON
The Faculty of Education’s workplace-based learning offers employers to choose students that put theory to practice in the field of learning and education. Teacher candidates in both our Concurrent and Consecutive BEd programs are required to complete 88 days of school-based classroom practicum.
The York Internship Program is an optional experiential education program that provides students with the opportunity to engage in a four, eight, twelve or sixteen month internship.
Internships
Participating programs:
Field Placements
No available field placements in Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services.
Contact Directory
Career Center:
- E-mail: ccjobs@yorku.ca
- Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 22089
- Website: http://careers.yorku.ca/employers/