Shape your company’s future with early talent from top universities and colleges from across Canada. Experience Ventures, powered by the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking at the University of Calgary, enables college and university students to make an impact alongside real-world innovators through entrepreneurial thinking placements
Identify early talent
Why wait to engage with students until after they’ve graduated? For Canada’s startups and social ventures, identifying the right talent—and the right mindset—is a priority. Your future depends on it. Experience Ventures works with you to create entrepreneurial thinking placements for students.
An entrepreneurial thinking placement is a structured, short-term placement (with honorarium) with companies like yours, that partner with a student’s school.
Why participate?
Access to fresh, innovative thinking from tomorrow’s changemakers and disrupters at a very affordable price
Recruit early talent to your local innovation economy
Tap into the different insights and perspectives of students and evaluate prospective talent
Diversify the talent pool that seeks to work in social impact and/or tech innovation
Contribute to the success of your campus-linked incubator
Give your up-and-coming team members the opportunity to develop their managerial skill set
How does it work?
Apply for an entrepreneurial thinking placement
Companies provide in-kind support, while students receive an honorarium through Experience Ventures
Both students and companies go through an onboarding process and participate in one of five types of entrepreneurial thinking placements and evaluate their experiences