Why Hire an MIRHR student?
The Master of Industrial Relations and Human Resources is an advanced graduate degree designed to train professionals in the latest innovations and best practices within Industrial Relations and Human Resources. Integral to the MIRHR degree is training in the essential analytical, research, and communication skills required of the effective labour relations or human resources professional.
Five Reasons to Hire an MIRHR Student
- Gain access to the top talent in Industrial Relations and Human Resources – MIRHR students are carefully selected, highly motivated, and can provide refreshing and creative business solutions.
- Get help with your special projects or other short-term requirements.
- Evaluate potential new employees - our graduates are highly sought after and many major employers return annually to recruit new graduates. Gain a competitive advantage: recruit once, hire twice.
- Energize your human resources or labour relations teams by hiring a student that will bring new knowledge, skills, and perspectives to the organization.
- Promote your organization as one that is committed to developing Industrial Relations and Human Resources professionals.
Knowledge and Skills of MIRHR Students
MIRHR students bring knowledge and skills that are essential for organizational success. Such strengths and abilities may include the following:
- Effective analytical, research, and project management skills.
- Demonstrated creativity, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
- Well-developed written, oral, and presentation skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability to new ways of thinking.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Experience in team-based environments.
- Long-term commitment to continuous learning.
- Experience in conflict management.
- Diplomacy and judgment.
- High levels of motivation and self-discipline.
- Ability to prioritize and make effective decisions.
- Strong computer skills: PowerPoint, Excel, SPSS, Internet, and word processing applications.
- Advanced understanding of:
- managing diversity as an integral part of strategic human resource planning,
- the laws governing the individual and the collective in the workplace,
- the complexities facing today's unionized and non-unionized organizations,
- essential quantitative analysis needed to make effective business decisions, and
- organizational dynamics.
Students participating in the summer work term will have completed many of the following courses during their first year in the MIRHR program:
- Human resource management
- Organizational behaviour
- Managing organizational change
- Accounting for HR
- Compensation
- Law in the workpalce
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- Industrial relations
- Economic environment of IR/HR
- Diversity in the workplace
- Negotiation skills
- Labour arbitration
- Statistics
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Compensation Guidelines
The website for the Co-op Program in Management at the University of Toronto at Scarborough provides compensation guidelines for summer work term positions.
Between 2008 and 2010 there were 32 applicants and 22 students secured positions.
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Salary Statistics 2010
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$15-$22/hour |
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Average |
$18.50/hour |
Employer Profiles
Link to profiles of employers who have hired MIRHR summer students.
How to Hire an MIRHR Summer Student
If you are interested in hiring an MIRHR Summer student, or learning more, please contact Chantal Emond at the University of Toronto 's
Co-op Program in Management at 416-287-7361 or email emond@utsc.utoronto.ca
