Royal Roads University is pleased to recognize outstanding internship employers with an RRU Internship Employer of the Year Award for their effort in providing a valuable learning experience to one or more students. The selected employer will receive a plaque.
Eligibility
Working in partnership, Career Learning and Development (CLD) Advisors and Faculty from each School have an opportunity each year to nominate an internship employer they feel is most deserving based on best satisfying one or more of these criteria:
- the intern gained significant mentorship from his/her host supervisor;
- the internship position provided additional training opportunities, professional development and critical workplace challenges;
- the internship employer created additional value by allowing the intern to expand the original job description to match personal career goals or professional interests;
- the intern was encouraged to attend decision-making meetings or become involved in challenging projects or assignments; and
- the intern was permitted to attend or support University or industry events, including career fairs, interview clinics, networking events, poster sessions, etc.
Eligible internship employers must have:
- offered an internship that was part of an academic requirement of a student’s program stream;
- been a host employer sometime within the 12 months leading up to the nomination deadline;
- hosted an intern who successfully completed his/her course requirements with a passing grade as per the requirements of the School’s program office and the Career Learning and Development office.
How to apply
CLD Advisors and/or Internship Instructors nominate a deserving internship employer for this award by completing the RRU Internship Employer of the Year Award Nomination Form and submitting it to Financial Aid and Awards.
Nominations are accepted all year with the competition closing on August 31 (11:59 p.m. PDT).
The Career Learning and Development team will select one employer from amongst the submissions for the Dean’s approval, for having provided the best internship learning opportunity. The employer will be recognized in the University’s social media by the CLD office and profiled on the CLD webpages as the year’s recipient.
What advice do past recipients of the RRU Internships Employer of the year have to say?
2023- City of Victoria
"Seal-Jones (City of Victoria) says during Gray’s (Student) internship, not only did he provide hands-on support, creating heat response kits to hand out to people in the community, his heatwave vulnerability mapping proved valuable, identifying specific areas and populations that are in greatest danger during a period of hot weather.
The internship added to Gray’s resume and he’s now working with the provincial emergency coordination centre. For both experiences, he credits his time at RRU (he finished the program in March), especially instructors’ abilities to pivot their teaching material to encompass current events.
Before both school and the internship, Gray says, he had doubts about the applicability of his previous experience but the City of Victoria internship helped give him confidence to apply his skills to future roles helping people.
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2022- R.A. Malatest & Associates
Malatest was named Royal Roads University’s Internship Employer of the Year for its work with interns from RRU’s Master of Global Management (MGM) program.
“The first thing that any of the international students who come and work for us get is immediate exposure to all different kinds of opinions and Canadians, as well as topics that are actually facing Canadians,” says Jeremy Town, Malatest’s survey house manager at its Victoria, BC office.
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2021-Payline by Ice
Payline team has encouraged the intern in many ways The interns role was not only confined towards the finance department, but also given a chance to work in the critical departments like payments, sales and marketing. Such an approach helped the intern to excel in his career and also to provide valuable feedback to the organization. Payline management also included the new intern in the decision making process mainly in the budgeting and forecasting.
Not only from the professional front but on the personal front also Payline has helped the intern. During pandemic times as he was away from the family, Payline made sure that he and his family are safe and made sure that his family back in India is also on the insurance/medical policy even though they were physically not present in Canada. They have paid the premiums for the family members back in India.
2020- AXYS Technologies Inc.
“We usually recruit students to work on projects specific to some improvements we want to make within the company. We choose the students to help us make those improvements, implement them, and from there, they can even potentially stay with the company and have a career,” says Callo.
Link to Article.
2019- ISM a Kyndryl Company
Master of Global Management student Ricardo Ramirez completed a five-month internship at ISM in 2018.
“ISM provided an exemplary internship experience that not only gave relevant academic and professional learning to Ricardo but directly affected his human resources career in Canada,” says Natasha Dilay, manager of Career Learning and Development for Royal Roads. “Ricardo continues to work for ISM in a perfect example of how work-integrated learning can benefit students and employers.”
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