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Conference recap: How RIM Retains More Students By Creating A Better Experience by Evan Birtch

It’s essential that students have an amazing experience every step of the way when they’re interacting with your organization, including on social media, at on-campus visits, during the application process, throughout their work terms, and even after their internships or co-op terms are over. That’s the message Evan Birtch, Team Lead, Campus Programs at Research [...]

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Conference recap: How To Start A Successful Internship Program by Just-Eat.ca's Antonio da Luz and Jane Mai

With a labour shortage looming and the competition for top talent already fierce, one trend we’re seeing more and more of is employers using internship and co-op programs as feeders for entry level roles. Students seem to like it too – it acts like an extended interview process for both the student and the employer. [...]

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Gen Y Recruitment Insider: Behind the scenes with Kobi Gulersen at MasterCard Canada

Did you miss our Gen Y Recruitment Insider event last week? Don’t worry. We’ve summarized the top tips from our first two Gen Y Recruitment Insider presentations. Yesterday we published the main messages from Nancy Moulday’s presentation, and today we’re egg-cited to bring you the key points from Kobi Gulersen’s presentation on the innovative MasterCard Canada summer intern [...]

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Poll results: What is most important to students in a summer internship?

With many students soon starting their summer internships now that classes are over, we recently featured a poll on our homepage that asked: What is most important to you in a summer internship? You might think that “high pay” might be most important to students considering all the hype about student loans and unpaid internships [...]

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How to keep interns engaged and why it's important

I’ve been an intern before. I’ve grabbed the coffees, cleaned the kitchen. I’ve even driven the boss’ car to pick someone up (didn’t mind that one). But on top of the trivial tasks, I also did some pretty meaningful work – tasks like writing proposals to attend conferences and making wicked presentations that were seen [...]

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I love watching our eggs hatch

Early last week I happened to be in Lauren’s office when she received a phone call—it was someone calling the references of a TalentEgg intern and writer for a very cool position on the web team of one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies. By Thursday, she had been offered the role and Lauren forwarded me [...]

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Please welcome Jelena, TalentEgg's new intern

Hello! My name is Jelena and I’m a new member of the TalentEgg team – the market research intern. I am a first-year arts and contemporary studies (ACS) student at Ryerson University here in Toronto. It’s a really big change from high school, but I keep myself busy with extracurricular activities in and out of [...]

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Give a big egg-shaped welcome to TalentEgg's assistant editors!

Have you noticed the awesome content we’ve been publishing lately? Well, get ready for even more and even better articles every day thanks to the hard work of our 10 new assistant editor interns who each manage a section or two of the Career Incubator or LAUNCH Magazine. Some of them are familiar faces who [...]

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