During the next few weeks, the Faculty of Engineering will be recruiting Planners and Reps to welcome our incoming first-year students to the Faculty of Engineering.
Here is your chance to get involved, build on our best traditions and start a new chapter!

Two Planner positions available. Apply by Mar. 10
Several Rep positions available. Apply by Mar. 26.
Job details and applications are available on OSCARplus

Job Id 35465 - Welcome Week Engineering Program Planner
Job Id 35466 - Welcome Week Engineering Rep
Job Id 35467 - Welcome Week Engineering Team Planner

Note: At this time, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation, planners and reps from 2012 and 2013 are not eligible to apply. A second phase of recruiting will occur in May/June in anticipation of the conclusion of the investigation and with the hope that those who are currently excluded will be eligible.

Certainly, anyone who takes on one of these roles is in for a wild ride!

The Program Planner and the Team Planner roles were held by as many as 15 students each year in past years, and their work started as early as January, totaling approximately 5000 hours of work between January and September between all 15 individuals.

Good luck!

It should also be noted for anyone who isnt in the know that ALL previous engineering welcome week reps have been banned from doing it again.

Good luck finding anyone with any experience with eng welcome week. Hell, good look finding enthusiastic leaders who want to do it outside of the current group of first years.

If you are in enge you should NOT apply to be a planner/rep next year.

Ok wow I looked at these postings...(which shouldnt even be on a job forum...what type of person are you looking for anyways?)

1) Welcome week rep.
-Only 75 positions? Thats not enough people to support the entire group of first years. Particularly since they wont have any internal leadership with experience.
-"A minimum sessional (January-April) GPA of 6.0 must be achieved" ... ARE YOU KIDDING ME. One of the biggest problems students are going to be faced with is all of a sudden doing a lot worse and being far more stressed out than they have ever been academically before. It is essential that the welcome weeks reps represent all types of students from top averages down to those who have had to struggle with every single course. There is learning in struggling. Seriously...remove this requirement. (btw I have a solid average...but I learned a lot from the lessons of those who failed and were willing to talk about why they failed)

2) Program Planner
Either this person is going to want to do it for nothing or they are going to want to be paid like an engineering student. $12/hour is fine for 1st/2nd years for camp like positions but an upper year engineer would be expected to make at least $20/hour...particularly for a position that is both supervisory and going to require a huge network to help them get everything done in time. Your also very late. A lot of students already have coops by now...

Originally Posted by qwerty91

Ok wow I looked at these postings...(which shouldnt even be on a job forum...what type of person are you looking for anyways?)

1) Welcome week rep.
-Only 75 positions? Thats not enough people to support the entire group of first years. Particularly since they wont have any internal leadership with experience.
-"A minimum sessional (January-April) GPA of 6.0 must be achieved" ... ARE YOU KIDDING ME. One of the biggest problems students are going to be faced with is all of a sudden doing a lot worse and being far more stressed out than they have ever been academically before. It is essential that the welcome weeks reps represent all types of students from top averages down to those who have had to struggle with every single course. There is learning in struggling. Seriously...remove this requirement. (btw I have a solid average...but I learned a lot from the lessons of those who failed and were willing to talk about why they failed)

2) Program Planner
Either this person is going to want to do it for nothing or they are going to want to be paid like an engineering student. $12/hour is fine for 1st/2nd years for camp like positions but an upper year engineer would be expected to make at least $20/hour...particularly for a position that is both supervisory and going to require a huge network to help them get everything done in time. Your also very late. A lot of students already have coops by now...

SSC is literally inept. Can't wait for a disastrous welcome week.

How hard is it this time to get a welcome week rep position? Since they need so many people, will they still reject a lot of applications?