Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of my exec update. I hope the job hunting is going fairly well for everyone, and that you are having a relatively enjoyable term so far. I have a couple things to cover this time, so let’s get to it.
First an update on work term reports. Expect a survey to be out by the time you are reading this exec update. The goal of this survey is to get an idea of the status of work term reports across programs on things like marking guidelines, confidential reports, etc. From the results of this survey, I’m going to be bringing a motion to council for the society to formally adopt a stance on work term reports. I hope by doing this, it will show the faculty that we want these to improve and show that students are engaged on this issue. I’ll have more updates on this in coming updates.
Next another Waterloo Works update. CECA is going to be providing regular updates on the project through the new student panel Facebook page located here: https://www.facebook.com/waterlooworks.student.panel. I have a written commitment from them that we will be getting regular updates on the project, and I’m already starting to see results.
That’s it for updates from last time, so now for something new! PD5, Project Management, is getting a refresh for upcoming offerings of the course. The core content of the course will remain unchanged, but the examples and assignments have been updated to be more relevant. If you are interested in project management or just looking for a decent PD course to take, the new offering looks to be an improvement. Expect to see this version in either the fall or winter terms.
The last little update is that the career fair is picking up steam and will be starting to contact employers in the coming weeks. We ran one of these in the fall term and based on student and employer feedback, we have expanded this to be a joint-society effort (both A and B). For this term our goal is to contact employers and get some of the initial logistics together to run career fairs in both the fall and winter terms. If you have know any employers that may be interested or want to find out some more information, feel free to send an email to careerfair@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca
That’s all for this week. Best of luck with the rest of the first round of Jobmine and on midterms in the coming weeks. As usual, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, feel free to send me an email at vpeducation.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca
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