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.
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  2008

2007

2006 2005 2004 2003*
Source of job / contact with employer:

N

%

N

%

 N % N % N % N %
1. Connection Co-op & Internship Job Fair (held annually in February)

30

16%

36

18%

 38 20% 32 17% 72 28% 44 31%
2. **Engineering Expo (held annually in September)

41

22%

53

26%

 35 19% 38 19% see 3. see 3.
3. All other job fairs (many held each year; see list)

8

4%

3

1%

 4 2% 8 4% 34 13% 11 8%
    Total for all job/career fairs 79 42% 92 45% 77 41% 78 40% 106 41% 55 39%
4. Personal contacts in employing organization

17

9%

8

4%

 17 9% 17 7%

4.&5.
38

 15% 4.&5.
31		 22%
5. Student contacted employing organization directly

16

9%

19

9%

 18 10% 22 12%
6. Source in academic department (Career Services sends co-op & internship notices to academic departments to distribute to students)

16

9%

18

9%

 19 10% 25 13% 32 12% 17 12%
7. On-Campus Interviewing Program (OCI) (All OCI jobs are posted in Hokies4Hire; students actively apply for OCI jobs via Hokies4Hire)

27

14%

38

19%

 27 14% 22 12% 31 12% 17 12%
8. Student posted resume in Hokies4Hire resume book; employer found student's resume there

22

12%

14

7%

 14 7% 9 5% 8 3% 4 3%
9. Worked for same employer previously in another capacity

9

5%

8

4%

 3 2% 11 6% 22 9% 5 4%
10. Other

0

0%

5

2%

 14 7% 10 5% 21 8% 11 8%
TOTAL 186  

202

 

 189   191   258   *140  
  * in 2003, job source data is available for about half of the students who enrolled that year.
  ** Currently over 90% of co-ops are engineering majors, and approximately 5% 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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