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Job descriptions on Waterloo Works are divided into three sections: Job summary, Job Responsibilities, and Required Skills. When hiring a co-op, it is important to convey an accurate description of the responsibilities and requirements. Avoid unnecessary detail. Keep it to the point and succinct. Each section should contain the following information. Examples can be found in Appendix 1.

Job Summary

  • Should emphasize that the role is unpaid. 

  • Provide an overview of what WARG does as a whole

  • Provide an overview of what the hiring sub team's responsibilities are within WARG

Job Responsibilities

  • Potential projects

  • Day-to-day tasks (i.e. documentation, CAD’ing parts, etc)

Required Skills

  • Skills, Languages, Software, Version Control, etc.

  • Mention “Passion for aviation”

Resume Selection:

  • Sub-team leads create a group to select resumes 

  • Groups will have access to a private chat in which all co-op discussion should be contained (this will prevent breaches of privacy)

  • Recommended that at least two people look at each resume 

  • Select a reasonable amount of people to interview

  • What to look for in resumes:

    • Projects and/or experience in tools/languages used by sub-team

    • Passion/interest in aviation

    • Attention to detail and care (good formatting, etc.)

  • Take note of poor performance in courses that are relevant to the subteam (ex. Poor performance in a C++ course for the embedded subteam) 

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  • WARG member applying for co-op positions 

    • Cannot be on the team during the same term that the team is hiring (ex. If the team is hiring in Winter for the Spring term, the candidate cannot have been a part of WARG during the Winter term) Acceptable as long as they are not involved in the hiring process

Extending the offer:

The following email template should be used when extending the offer:

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