Recruiting and Work Term Dates

For your convenience, we have compiled a listing of recruiting and work term dates to help you navigate your co-op experience at Laurier. Further detailed information can be found in the co-op events calendar on Navigator. Note: Recruiting dates are subject to change.

Fall 2025 Work Term; September 2 through December 19, 2025

We have now completed co-op recruiting for the fall work term.

Winter 2026 Work Term; January 2 through April 24, 2026

(Students in CPA firms work from January 2 through April 30, 2026) 

Primary Recruiting Period

We have now completed our primary recruiting period.

Continuous Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs for the continuous recruiting period on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
• If you are still seeking work for the winter, you will begin applying to job postings again.
• Please complete the Student Contact and Interview Conflict Form for the continous recruiting period by Sunday, October 5, at 11:59 p.m..
• During the continuous recruiting period, employers may contact you directly to arrange interviews and offer jobs. Please send details of your interviews to your consultant , so we don't schedule you for other interviews at the same time.
• We will post jobs for the continuous recruiting period until all co-op students have secured employment for the winter.
• If you receive an offer from an employer, please let your consultant know so we can notify other employers considering you.

Personal Job Search

• You may conduct a personal job search any time.
• Interviews we schedule take precedence over interviews through your personal job search, so please avoid scheduling interviews from September 22 through 29.
• Before accepting a job you find on your own, you must send details of the offer to your co-op consultant so we can decide whether to approve the job for co-op.
• You may not accept a job offer through your personal job search between the deadline for submitting your intention form, 10 a.m. on September 10, and the time we announce the results of the ranking and matching process, on October 2. 

Spring 2026 Work Term; May 4 through August 28, 2026

CPA Recruiting Period

CPA firms will recruit students to work for four or eight months beginning in the spring or fall.

You may participate if you are a Sequence One or Economics Co-op student seeking your first work term in May or a Sequence Two student seeking your first work term in September. (We allow CPA firms to switch your sequence. Economics students: If you apply to jobs that start in fall or last eight months, please consult with Amy Neufeld about strategies for registration challenges.)

• Thursday, November 13: We will begin posting co-op jobs for the CPA recruiting period.
• Through December 1:  We will continue to post jobs, so check Navigator daily.
• January 6 and 7: Interviews
• January 8 (afternoon): View how employers ranked you.
• January 9 by 9 a.m.: Submit your rankings of employers.
• January 9 (late afternoon): Learn the results of the early CPA ranking and matching process.

Primary Recruiting Period

• Thursday, January 8: We will begin posting co-op jobs for the spring 2026 work term.
• Monday, January 12, by 11:59 p.m.: Complete the Student Contact and Interview Conflict Form.
• January 16, by 10 a.m.: Submit your intention form on Navigator.
• Through January 16:  We will continue to post jobs, so check Navigator daily.
• January 21 to 27: Interviews.
• January 22 and 23: Some interviews will take place in-person on-campus.
• Wednesday, January 28 (afternoon): View how employers ranked you.
• Thursday, January 29, by 9 a.m.:  Enter your rankings of employers on Navigator.
• Friday, January 30 (late afternoon): Learn the results of the ranking and matching process.

Note: Employers and co-op students may not communicate between the interview and the time we release results of the match. If an employer contacts you during the primary recruiting period, you must send their message to your co-op coordinator.

Continuous Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs for the continuous recruiting period on Friday, January 30, 2026.
• If you are still seeking work for the spring, you will begin applying to job postings again.
• Please complete the Student Contact and Interview Conflict Form for the continous recruiting period by Sunday, February 1, at 11:59 p.m..
• During the continuous recruiting period, employers may contact you directly to arrange interviews and offer jobs. Please send details of your interviews to your coordinator, so we don't schedule you for other interviews at the same time.
• We will post jobs for the continuous recruiting period until all co-op students have secured employment for the spring.
• If you receive an offer from an employer, please let your coordinator know so we can notify other employers considering you.

Personal Job Search

• You may conduct a personal job search any time.
• Interviews we schedule take precedence over interviews through your personal job search, so please avoid scheduling interviews from January 21 through 27.
• Before accepting a job you find on your own, you must send details of the offer to your co-op coordinator so we can decide whether to approve the job for co-op.
• You may not accept a job offer through your personal job search between the deadline for submitting your intention form, 10 a.m. on January 16, and the time we announce the results of the ranking and matching process, on January 30.