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Employer Responsibilities
It is expected that employers will:
- Post job opportunities and arrange interviews through Western's Careers & Experience
- Extend all job offers through Western's Careers & Experience
- Confirm acceptance of job offers and terms of employment in writing to students and to the institution
- Honour all offers of employment
- Provide accurate and complete information on job responsibilities, compensation, and benefits
- Assign a mentor or advisor to assist the students to identify goals and clarify roles and responsibilities
- Treat the students as employees, let their expectations be like those of their co-workers
- Provide the students with relevant training and development opportunities
- Monitor the students' progress, and provide formal/informal feedback on a timely basis to both the students and to the institution
- Provide Western Careers & Experience with a copy of the employment contract, where possible
- If, in the rare event that you wish to terminate an Intern or an Internship position, please contact HireSocialSci@uwo.ca as soon as possible.
*based on Best Practices Guidelines of the Canadian Association for Internship Programs