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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

359.0. "Co op student in Canada ?" by FROCKY::LOEFFELSEND (Juergen Loeffelsender) Fri Oct 05 1990 12:22

    Hello,

    we are two students, who want to gain pratical experience in a
    foreign country as co op students.

    DEC Germany don't help us anyway (only a few adresses in UK) to contact 
    someone in foreign countries.

    So, if someone could give us an pointer, name or/and adress, which we
    could contact, this would be great.

    (BTW, one of us currently works as a co op student at DEC Frankfurt
     (Germany), our activities include system management, performance
     management, design and programming of GUI's)


    Thanks a lot,

           Juergen

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359.1AZUBI neq Co-opCOVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertMon Oct 08 1990 13:5317
I don't know how the co-op program works in Canada, but suspect that since the
U.S. and Canadian university systems are very similar, the co-op program is
also probably the same.

In the U.S., to be eligible to work as a co-op, you must be enrolled in a
co-op program at a university.  Companies interested in hiring co-ops go to
the university and interview students, who are then hired, for a single term,
to work on-site.  At the end of the term, the students return to the university
for the next term.

The program is slightly different at each university (since some universities
divide the year into quarters and others divide the year into semesters).

This is very different from the AZUBI program in Germany.  I fear there is no
mechanism available to allow you to work in either the U.S. or Canada.

/john
359.2TRCO01::FINNEYKeep cool, but do not freezeFri Oct 19 1990 00:437
    Actually, there is a chance in Canada - but transportation and living
    costs/arrangements are up to you, if not from one of the places DEC
    Canada deals with.
    
    I've forwarded your note to a few people in Toronto.
    
    Scooter