What is Micro-ExP?
Micro-ExP is a Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunity. It helps bridge the classroom and the world of work, connecting students with businesses looking to support professional development in students, while gaining fresh perspectives. Students learn valuable skills in their courses but it’s experiences outside of the classroom with real professionals and organizations that leave a lasting impact on their career development.
Partners appreciate how easy it is to participate and the benefits:
- Short-term commitment of a few hours over the course of 1 week (May 13-17)
- Fully remote, projects/placements customizable to your business needs
- Access to work with top students with fresh perspectives
How does it work?
As a partner, you can host the following options:
- Micro-Project. 100% remote 12 hours max/student
- Micro-Placement. On-site/hybrid 10-15 hours max/student
What kind of projects/placements are students expecting to gain experience with?
- Communications, marketing, design, grant writing, engineering, data science, product, research, etc. are all topics of interest. Since in most cases we can’t have students sign NDA’s however, certain domains lend themselves better to micro experiences than others.
What kind of students take part in this program? What kind of projects can we expect to give to them?
- Undergrad and graduate across all disciplines – we operate on the assumption that the students selecting a given project are motivated to gain that experience and do our best to match them accordingly.
How many students should we expect?
- Anywhere from 1 – 3 students for each project/placement.
- Since each student commits 12hrs max to their project, team-based projects can work well to increase max hours and project scope.
How much guidance/supervision is required for each student?
- The work required on the employer side is outlined here:
- Write project posting(s) key tasks/deliverables/skills/number of students
- Employer and Student Introductions: Each project has a key contact/supervisor – We send this contact their student names/emails and they send a meeting invite to their students.
- Project Kick-off meeting (45m-1hr) to review the project objectives and provide access to any tools/resources they need to complete it (May 14th)
- Mid-week checkpoint meeting is optional - Students may reach out during the week with burning questions over email
- Students submit deliverables at the end of the week (May 17th)
- Key contact confirms receipt and provides feedback by the following Wednesday
For more information on both options please read the PDF below, and contact Amelia Slone at amelia.slone [at] mcgill.ca
