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.

Winter 2025 Work Term; January 2 through April 25, 2025

(Students in CPA firms work from January 2 through April 30, 2025) 

We have now completed recruiting for the winter work term.

Spring 2025 Work Term; May 1 through August 29, 2025

We have now completed the primary recruiting period for this term. 

Continuous Recruiting Period

• We will begin posting jobs for the continuous recruiting period on Friday, February 7, 2025.
• 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 Monday, February 10 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 23 through February 3.
• 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, 9 a.m. on January 17, and the time we announce the results of the ranking and matching process, on February 7. 

Fall 2025 Work Term; September 2 through December 24, 2025

Early Recruiting Period for Capital Markets

Jobs in trading, private equity, investment banking

April 17-21: View job postings on Navigator and begin applying.
April 21: Deadline for applying to capital markets roles. 
April 22:  Employers will begin contacting you to arrange interviews and extend job offers.

• Please let your co-op consultant know of any interviews you schedule.
• All interviews will take place by video or phone, not in person.
• During your work term, please try to schedule interviews at lunch or after office hours.
• We ask employers to give you at least 24 hours' notice of interviews.
• We ask employers to give you at least three days to consider job offers.
• Please let your co-op consultant know of any offers you receive.

May 7: Last day to accept job offers during the early recruiting period for capital markets.

Primary Recruiting Period

• Thursday, May 8: We will begin posting co-op jobs for the fall 2025 work term.
• Thursday, May 8, by 11:59 p.m.: Complete the Student Contact and Interview Conflict Form.
• Monday, May 12, by 9 a.m.: Submit your intention form on Navigator.
• Through May 16:  We will continue to post jobs, so check Navigator daily.
• May 22 to May 28: Interviews.
• May 27, and possibly May 28: Some interviews will take place in person on campus.
• Thursday, May 29 (afternoon): View how employers ranked you.
• Friday, May 30, by 9 a.m.:  Enter your rankings of employers on Navigator.
• Monday, June 2, 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 Monday, June 2, 2025.
• 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 Wednesday, June 4 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 May 22 through May 28.
• 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, 9 a.m. on May 12, and the time we announce the results of the ranking and matching process, on June 2.