How to Wrap Up Co-op

It is important to leave a good impression on your employer as you conclude your co-op. This will help them when they are considering you for another co-op or a full-time position. Even if you are not interested in working with them again, it’s always good to have past employers who will be a reference or write you a letter of recommendation.

Thank Your Supervisor(s)

• Be sure to finish out your co-op semester by thanking your supervisor(s) and mentor(s) for their guidance during your co-op. A formal note or email is best.
• Ask your colleagues if you can connect with them on LinkedIn. Remember – these are the people who you may want to call on when you begin to search for full time jobs in the very near future.

Provide A Smooth Transition

• Document and provide a status update of anything you’ve been working on so you can do a knowledge transfer to the next person and/or create a procedural manual for the next co-op student. This will help train them.
• Write up a list of what you’ve been working on and where it is located to hand it off.

Complete Your Co-op Evaluation

• Spend some time reflecting on your co-op experience.
• Fill out your self-evaluation of the co-op on WITworks. (Co-op>Self-Evaluation)
• Answer all the prompts with full, well-thought responses to the open-ended questions. If your answers are brief (one sentence, one word, “n/a’, etc.) it may be rejected. This evaluation, along with your employer’s evaluation, is how we award a grade at the end of the semester.

Update Your Resume

• Update your resume with your co-op experience and any new projects or skills.
• Refer to both your self-evaluation and your employer evaluation in WITworks to remind you of important projects in which you were involved.