Benefits of Participation
More than 1,500 participating employers throughout the United States and around the world know that UC co-ops are an excellent resource for meeting short-range skilled employee needs today and for identifying and training their organizational leaders of tomorrow. Major studies have proven that employment of co-op students is a cost-effective method of recruitment and development of human resources. Our co-op program is carefully designed and tailored to meet the individual needs of employers and the educational goals of student participants. Co-op will work for your organization too.
Significant benefits accrue to the employer who participates in UC’s Professional Practice (Co-op) Program because:
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Co-op is a proven cost-effective method to meet both immediate and long-range human resource needs
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Co-op is an opportunity to evaluate potential career employees
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Co-op students can perform well on some professional level assignments, thus freeing career employees for advanced responsibilities
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Co-op decreases the turnover of graduates employed in career positions
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Co-op is a ready source of obtaining employees
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Co-op arrangements are ideal for technology transfer
Additionally, co-op fosters ongoing productive relationships between the campus and employer communities. Co-op employers play an important role in providing feedback to the University of Cincinnati on the needs of industry.
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