Overview
The UMak Industry Partners Recognition Day (IPRD) is a year-end gathering to bring together our partners to rekindle and strengthen bonds, while celebrating and recognizing their significant contributions to the University’s and the City’s mandate for educational excellence and student employability.

Instructions:

• Use the suggested criteria for evaluation below when nominating an industry partner.
• Only one (1) industry partner can be nominated per college/center/office.
• If the industry partner is not on the list of active partners (with duly-signed, notarized, and ratified contracts which have not lapsed, as of September 22, 2023) provided by CILP, they may not be nominated.
• If the industry partner was just given a Special Award in 2023, they may not be nominated. Let’s give more chances for other deserving partners, who have not won recently, to be nominated.
• Nomination is First Come, First Served. Only a maximum of 10 industry partners will be given a special award this year.
• All nominations will be subject to ManCom approval.
• The deadline for submission of the nomination form is on October 27, 2023.

Suggested Evaluation Criteria:
Your college/center/office is invited to participate in nominating one of your industry partners based on their contributions within the past or recent years. Aside from the Active Partner Award, they will also be recognized during the IPRD 2023 with a Special Award. Below is our suggested criteria but feel free to nominate your most deserving partner.

1. Contribution to Cooperative Education and/or Work Integrated Learning – (e.g., Supporting on-campus events, either financially or with in-kind support, attending information sessions, career fairs, interview clinics, networking events, guest speakers, speaker panels, attending poster or debriefing sessions, etc.)
2. Quality of the experience – (e.g., link with education, depth of work experience, level of responsibility, access to challenging projects or assignments, etc)
3. Provision for a professional growth experience – career, competency and/or academic development – (e.g., Professional Development, memberships or participation in professional associations, etc.)
4. The mentoring relationship provided to the student/alumni during the work term – (e.g., providing networking and informational interview opportunities with other professionals, providing career development advice and guidance, etc.)
5. Evaluator assessment and recognition of additional qualities of nominee
6. Aiming Beyond Better in the Borderless Employment Landscape
   – (e.g., helping in upskilling the abilities of students to complement the digital transformation in the employment landscape beyond borders and/or to promote an interconnected UMak whether locally or globally)