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Waterloo, ON, April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The University of Waterloo is launching a brand new type of work-integrated learning particularly designed to assist co-op college students in search of their first work time period throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the evaluation of 71,000 job descriptions – analysis performed by Waterloo’s Work-Learn Institute – Co-operative and Experiential Education (CEE) recognized the prime abilities in most demand by employers throughout all industries throughout this time when the nature of labor is essentially changing. Skills employers are in search of now embody: know-how, communications, video advertising and marketing, social media, software program growth and high quality assurance, project-identification, evaluation and growth of innovation options. “The previous yr has created distinctive and surprising challenges for our college students, and we’re excited to introduce extra versatile methods for them to upskill and interact in significant work-integrated learning,” says Norah McRae, affiliate provost of CEE. “The WE Accelerate Program won’t solely assist college students safe team-based undertaking experiences, however by means of the exemplary efforts of our employers and trade companions, it would additionally assist college students develop very important abilities to navigate a posh future of labor.” CEE co-developed the new program (dubbed WE Accelerate) with trade companions Microsoft, Deloitte, Vidyard, Desire2Learn and Manulife, in addition to campus companions Concept by Velocity, The Problem Lab, and The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change. All supplied their experience, course content material, facilitators, coaches and mentors. Some of those companions will work with college students on actual work tasks. The program affords a novel high quality work-integrated learning alternative and gives a substitute for a standard co-op work time period. Microsoft “For over twenty years, Microsoft has recruited distinctive expertise from the University of Waterloo by means of the co-op program. Microsoft is proud to collaborate with the University of Waterloo to upskill and coach first work-term college students as considered one of the first steps of their profession journey. These college students could have the likelihood to work on trade tasks, achieve helpful mentorship, and earn their first Microsoft certification in Azure cloud and AI, setting them on a path to thrive in the digital economic system.” – Kevin Peesker, President, Microsoft Canada Manulife “Manulife is proud to have a longstanding relationship with the University of Waterloo. Through this new work-integrated learning program, we’re excited to assist first work-term college students construct their abilities in software program growth as they work on tasks that may have a optimistic influence on digital, buyer experiences. We sit up for connecting college students with proficient, formidable, and out of the field thinkers by means of this program, in help of constructing a resilient and revolutionary future workforce for tomorrow’s graduates.” – Hugh Cumming, CIO, Manulife Canada Vidyard Video is the way forward for enterprise on this digital-focused world. Through the Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate program, we’ve partnered with the University of Waterloo to develop video advertising and marketing abilities with first work-term college students. Vidyard makes use of video to alter the method corporations join and talk and this abilities set will set UWaterloo college students aside, able to embrace the continuously evolving digital office. – Michael Litt, co-founder & CEO, Vidyard, Systems Engineering alumnus and former co-op pupil Deloitte “To keep forward of in the present day’s office disruptions, organizations have to constantly upskill their workforce dynamically and in the circulate of labor. We acknowledge that human-centred design (HCD) is a key future ability for constructing a future-ready workforce and are delighted to collaborate with the University of Waterloo to create an HCD Master Class for first-year college students. During this 8-week course, college students will clear up an actual work-integrated drawback utilizing the fundamentals of HCD – growing options that put the “human”, whether or not a buyer, an worker, or a enterprise associate, at the forefront, whereas flipping orthodoxies and paradigms about how a enterprise operates.” – Peter Tulumello, Leader of Learning Advisory and Ecosystems, Deloitte Canada Concept/Velocity “Concept is extremely excited to assist provide college students a novel alternative to spend a semester increasing their networks throughout disciplines and working with trade specialists. The WE Accelerate program will present publicity to alternatives exterior of pupil consolation zones and permits them to concentrate on non-academic pursuits whereas constructing extremely transferrable abilities.” – Carly Cameron, Manager Entrepreneurship Experience, Concept imagined by Velocity Rebecca Elming
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