Accepting Job Offers

You are obligated to accept employment with any employer you rank, if you are ’matched.’
Before accepting a job offer through your own efforts, please give your co-op co-ordinator a job description and contact information.

When you learn that you have been matched, or you decide to accept a job offer:

Sign and return a confirmation of employment form.
Send a letter of acceptance to your employer by email, or ask us to mail it. You will find the name and address on Navigator. Go to your student profile, and look for the ’matching letter’ in the job description in the ’Term Sequence’ section. (If the interviewer gave you a business card, you may use that.)

Sample Acceptance Letter

123 Lodge Street, Unit 1
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3C5

February 18, 2010

Mr. James Doe
Marketing Manager
ABC Manufacturing
45 Railside Road
Toronto, Ontario
M3C 2J3

Dear Mr. Doe:

I was very pleased to receive your offer of employment, and I am delighted to accept the position as Marketing Assistant with ABC Manufacturing for the spring work term, which runs from May 3 to September 3, 2010.

Please let me know what time to arrive on my first day, and whether you would like me to review any training information before I start. I can be reached by e-mail at jsmi0123@wlu.ca or by telephone at (519) 123-4567.

Alternative second paragraph:

If you would like me to start my work term early, I am available to begin after my exams finish in mid-April. I can be reached by e-mail at jsmi0123@wlu.ca or by telephone at (519) 123-4567.

I look forward to beginning my work term at ABC Manufacturing.

Sincerely,

Jane Smith

Jane Smith