[kevintxwu]

To make sure I answer your question well...I'm not quite sure I understand this sentence, could you clarify for me?

considering co-op costs are around 8k at my university (don't know about others off the top of my head). Which are covered pretty easily with mandatory 16 months of work experience.

Do you mean a co-op costs you 8k or that you are paid 8k, and is the 16 months of work experience referring to the co-ops or to the full-time job search afterward?

[marclave]

Apologies; just checked my account summary and I was way off. It is not 8k it is $2,592.

Apologies for the unclear sentence, the engineering degree is 5 years, during which there is 16 months of mandatory work experience. The $2,592 is paid in increments across the 5 year degree. Which is in $324 payments each semester of work until the total of $2,592 is paid.

[kevintxwu]

So if I understand correctly, you're asking: "if I already have 16 months of experience, isn't 7% a bit steep to help me find a job?"

The way we see it, no matter your experience level, especially if you still haven't actually been at a real full-time position yet, it's probably true that you can make your job prospects at least 7%+ better.

I would definitely say plenty of students we work with are fine and plenty capable on their own, but job seeking is rarely a binary of you're either fine or you're not. It's a spectrum from underemployed to dream job.

We try to get students the job that's the best possible fit for them, which is at least 7%+ better of a fit than they would've found alone.

TL;DR - It's not steep in the case that you believe we can provide you more in return in value.