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Three Strategies to Work Efficiently at Your Job

You probably know the feeling well: you have a few important projects that need to get done for work, your homework from school is piling up, and you’d like to maybe try to have a social life at some point. Everything must get done, and even though you feel like you’re working hard, you never seem to get ahead.

Lucky for you, there’s a solution. It’s time to learn to work efficiently.

Working efficiently means optimizing the way you work to finish your projects and save time. Learning how to do it takes time, but as you get familiar with your own work patterns you’ll start to see your efficiency changing.

There are some key ways to start that process. Below, we look at three of them.

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Three Reasons to Apply for Summer 2018 Co-op Right Now

It’s pretty crazy to start thinking about next summer already, but we just opened applications for the summer 2018 co-op term! Applications are open from now until September 17th.

That means it’s time for you to decide whether you want to do a co-op. It also means it’s time for us to tell you all the reasons why doing co-op is the best possible decision you could make for your future career.

Here are three big reasons why you should definitely apply to co-op for 2018.

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The 7 Basic Steps of a Successful Job Hunt

With fall coming and a new school year starting, now is a great time to revisit the basics of a successful job or placement hunt. Love it or hate it, job hunting is a necessary part of life. The skills that you learn while looking for a co-op placement will come up time and time again throughout your professional career.

Today, we look at the basics of this process, from start to finish. We’ve also included a lot of links to previous articles we published, all of which go into further detail about the job hunt. As always, if you have any other questions for us, you can contact our office and we’ll help you out.

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The Super Easy Way to Forward Your Student Emails Account to Your Regular Email

With school starting up, you’ll be getting busy again soon. It can be hard to keep up with all the information coming at you, from your program’s Facebook group to Blackboard to random asides in class. But one thing to always keep in mind—especially as a co-op student at Algonquin—is that checking your school email is really, really important.

Here in the co-op office, we use your student email address as our primary mode of communication. That means that resume reviews, interview requests, and—vitally—job offers will often come through your student email. And you don’t want to miss out on any of that.

But, because you’re busy, remembering to check your student email can be hard. The answer? Forward your student email to your regular email account, and make sure you get notifications of new emails on your phone.

Here are the 3 easy steps to make it happen.

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Four Ways to Prepare for the Back-to-School Grind

We are less than a week away from the start of the fall 2017 semester, which means the end of summer and back to school for many. Because your summer schedule and school year schedule can be so vastly different, the transition back into the school year can be kind of stressful.

Today, we’re going to look at four ways to prepare for back to school, to manage stress and make your transition back to student so much easier.

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