Hire an ECU Student

We connect employers to bright and talented art, design, and media students.

Thank you for your interest in hiring Emily Carr students or graduates.

ECU’s Career Development + Work Integrated Learning Office facilitates employment, placements, recruitment, and artist calls from creative industry professionals for our undergraduate, graduate, and alumni communities.

Work Integrated Learning

The Work Experience for Credit program integrates classroom learning with periods of paid work to enable students to apply their knowledge and skills. Students receive credits toward their degree for successfully completed work terms.

A wide range of employers, including large and small businesses, non-profit organizations and the public sector, hire our students.

Students can assist with short- or long-term needs for specific projects, or provide general assistance to ease workload pressures on full-time employees. This is also a great avenue for organizations to recruit, train, and assess potential future employees.

Work Experience terms are available to third- and fourth-year undergraduate students. Placements can be part-time or full-time in summer, spring, and fall semesters.

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Are you interested in a research partnership with ECU?

Visit our Research Partnerships page.

Post an Opportunity on Our Job Board

Employers can post opportunities for students and alumni for free on ECU's job board, located on The Leeway.

When posting your job, please include:

  • job title

  • company name or contact name

  • contact information

  • how to apply

  • job description and duties
  • qualifications (skills and experience required)
  • remuneration/wages - this is a legal requirement for posting, as per the Pay Transparency Act.
  • term of employment - temporary, full time, part time, contract, Work Experience, Internship, Co-op, etc.
  • closing date - required

You can also request applicants submit examples of work by email or a link to an online portfolio.

For more information please refer to our resource Information for Employers.

Funding Resources for Employers

ACE/WIL BC (Association for Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning) has an excellent funding resource page for employers.

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    Emily Carr Career Development + Work Integrated Learning services facilitate employment, recruitment, and artist call efforts from the creative industry for our undergraduate, graduate, and alumni communities.

    To access these services, you and your organization must comply with all employment standards outlined by the British Columbia Employment Standards Act, the Human Rights Code, and Emily Carr University.

    Also please note British Columbia’s Pay Transparency Act, which came into effect on Nov 1, 2023 and requires transparent wages be included on all job postings. Jobs posted without remuneration will be removed.

    For fine arts creative service compensation recommendations, visit CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation / Le Front des Artistes Canadiens).

    All student experiential opportunity postings such as Work Experience (formerly co-ops) must be compensated as per the British Columbia Employment Standards Act’s definitions.

    Emily Carr University only posts unpaid opportunities for registered charitable organizations, and not-for-profit organizations, with preference given to work that is related to our undergraduate and master’s degrees.

    In compliance with the Design Professionals of Canada, Emily Carr University does not post opportunities requiring the applicants to perform speculative work (such as competitions).

    Recruiting and posting privileges will not be provided to organizations that:

    • Charge student applicants directly for services
    • Require a financial investment on the part of the applicants
    • Offer compensation that is primarily based on commission
    • Offer compensation that is primarily based on speculative work
    • Offer unpaid opportunities and are not a registered charitable organization or not-for-profit organization
    • Third party postings that do not disclose the employer’s information

    Emily Carr University reserves the right to edit, delete, or refuse any opportunity posting that are not in compliance with the above-mentioned policies. The provision of this search/opportunity posting service does not constitute an endorsement by Emily Carr University of any of the organizations posting opportunities.