Career Services at Virginia Tech
Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program [CEIP]
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.
 
  2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Source of job / contact with employer: N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
1. Connection Co-op & Internship Job Fair (held annually in February) 28 16% 25 14% 18 17% 30 16% 36 18% 38 20% 32 17%
2. **Engineering Expo (held annually in September) 34 20% 30 17% 21 20% 41 22% 53 26% 35 19% 38 19%
3. All other job fairs (many held each year; see list) 7 4% 7 4% 4 4% 8 4% 3 1% 4 2% 8 4%
    Total for all job/career fairs 69 40% 43 35% 43 43% 79 42% 92 45% 77 41% 78 40%
4. Personal contacts in employing organization 7 4% 21 12% 14 13% 17 9% 8 4% 17 9% 17 7%
5. Student contacted employing organization directly 30 18% 21 12% 14 13% 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) 11 6% 12 7% 7 7% 16 9% 18 9% 19 10% 25 13%
7. On-Campus Interviewing Program (OCI) | Hokies4Hire
(All OCI jobs posted in Hokies4Hire; students use H4H to apply.)		 26 15% 30 17% 12 11% 27 14% 38 19% 27 14% 22 12%
* 8. combined with 7. above starting in 2011.
(Student posted resume in Hokies4Hire; employer found resume there.)		 * * 10 6% 4 3% 22 12% 14 7% 14 7% 9 5%
9. Worked for same employer previously in another capacity 5 3% 7 7% 7 7% 9 5% 8 4% 3 2% 11 6%
10. Other 23 13% 8 5% 5 5% 0 0% 5 2% 14 7% 10 5%
TOTAL 171   173   106   186   202   189   191  
** Engineering majors account for 82% to 92% of students enrolled as co-ops during 2003 to 2011.
Business majors account for 5% to 10% of students enrolled as co-ops during the same period.
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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