Internship and co-op hiring runs on a calendar, and it screens on potential rather than years of experience. Both of those things change how you should apply — and that is what this is for.
Co-op and internship hiring is not a smaller version of the graduate job market. It runs on fixed term dates, employers post months ahead of the work term, and the good postings close early. Miss the window for a term and the next one is four months away, no matter how strong the application would have been.
It also screens differently. Nobody expects five years of experience from a second-year student, so recruiters read for evidence of potential: coursework that is actually relevant, projects you can talk about, part-time and volunteer work that shows reliability, and whether you can explain what you did in plain language. A resume that apologises for having no experience buries all of that. A resume built around it does not.
We work on the resume for the level you are actually at, the timing of your applications against the co-op calendar, how to read a posting for the two or three things that really matter, and how to answer the behavioural questions you will be asked with examples drawn from school, part-time work and volunteering.
Built for applicants whose strongest material is coursework, projects and part-time work — because at this stage, it is.
A one-page resume that leads with relevant coursework, projects and transferable part-time work, written so a recruiter can see the potential in ten seconds.
When postings for your work term actually open and close, and what to have ready before they do. Missing the window is the most avoidable failure here.
Which two or three requirements in a posting are doing the real screening, and how to make sure your application answers those first.
Practice with the questions employers ask students, using STAR examples built from group projects, part-time jobs, volunteering and campus roles.
How many roles to target, how widely to cast, and what to do with a shortlist when everyone in your program is applying to the same five employers.
Short, specific, and about the employer rather than about you. For internships this still matters more than it does later in a career.
Ideally you start a term ahead of the placement. If you are already inside the window, we start with what is closing soonest.
Program, work term, what you have done so far, and what kind of placement you want. We are honest about what is realistic for this term versus next.
About 45 minutesWe rebuild the resume around coursework, projects and part-time work, and check it against applicant tracking software before you send it anywhere.
2 – 4 daysA target list mapped to the posting calendar for your work term, so applications go out while the postings are still open.
1 sessionMock interviews with the behavioural questions students actually get, and feedback on how the answers land.
Before your first interviewMost students working on a placement application end up needing at least one of these too.
The wider picture: entry-level job search, graduate roles, and the move from study into work.
Deeper interview practice when you have a placement interview coming up.
Campus recruiters look you up. A student profile that reads well is worth an evening of work.
Coursework that maps to the posting, projects you can describe in detail, part-time or volunteer work that shows reliability and dealing with people, and any campus role where you organised something. All of it counts, and at this stage recruiters expect exactly that. What hurts is a resume that lists a degree, three lines of unrelated part-time work and nothing else — not because the experience is missing, but because it was never written down.
Earlier than most students expect. Employers commonly post for a work term several months ahead, and the strongest postings fill before the term begins. The practical rule is to have your resume finished and your target list ready before postings open for the term you want, rather than starting to write once you see something you like.
For a placement that is a required part of your program and is 50% or less of it, a separate co-op work permit is no longer required as of April 2026 — the study permit covers it. Rules change, and your school’s co-op office is the authority on your specific program, so confirm with them. This is general information, not immigration advice.
It matters less than people think, and it is a good reason to widen the list. The employers everyone knows get hundreds of applications for a handful of seats; the smaller organisations two suburbs over get a dozen. Part of what we do is find the second group, because your odds there are considerably better and the work is often more interesting.
Send us the posting and your current resume. We will tell you what is missing before the deadline, not after it.