How students found co-op jobs

Career Services at Virginia Tech

Undergraduate Cooperative Education / Internship Program

How students found co-op and internship positions

Data collected, prior to first work term, from students who enroll in the Undergraduate Cooperative Education / Internship Program administered by Career Services.

	2007		2006		2005		2004		2003
Source of job / contact with employer:	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
1. Connection Co-op & Internship Job Fair (held annually in February)	36	18%	38	20%	32	17%	72	28%	44	31%
2. **Engineering Expo (September)	53	26%	35	19%	38	19%	see 4.		see 4.
3. **Business Horizons (September)	see 4.		see 4.		6	3%	see 4.		see 4.
4. Other job fair	3	1%	4	2%	2	1%	34	13%	11	8%
5. Personal contacts in employing organization	8	4%	17	9%	17	7%	see 7.		see 7.
6. Student contacted employing organization directly	19	9%	18	10%	22	12%	see 7.		see 7.
7. Personal contacts / contacted employer directly	See 5. & 6.		see 5. & 6.		see 5. & 6.		38	15%	31	22%
8. Source in academic department (Career Services sends co-op & internship notices to academic departments to distribute to students)	18	9%	19	10%	25	13%	32	12%	17	12%
9. On-Campus Interviewing Program (OCI) (All OCI jobs are posted in Hokies4Hire; students actively apply for OCI jobs via Hokies4Hire)	38	19%	27	14%	22	12%	31	12%	17	12%
10. Student posted resume in Hokies4Hire resume book; employer found student's resume there	14	7%	14	7%	9	5%	8	3%	4	3%
11. Worked for same employer previously in another capacity	8	4%	3	2%	11	6%	22	9%	5	4%
12. Other	5	2%	14	7%	10	5%	21	8%	11	8%
TOTAL	202		189		191		258		*140

* in 2003, job source data is available for about half of the students who enrolled that year.

** Currently over 89% of co-ops are engineering majors, and just under 7% are business majors.

Beginning in 2005, data collected via online salary survey distributed to all students upon their initial enrollment in CEIP. Response rate to question "How did you locate your co-op/internship?" is approximately 80%.

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