{"id":17985,"date":"2026-10-22T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=17985"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:54:14","slug":"cog-sci-alum-shares-how-co-op-opened-doors-for-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2026\/cog-sci-alum-shares-how-co-op-opened-doors-for-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Cog Sci Alum shares how Co-op opened \ndoors for her career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cog Sci Alum shares how Co-op opened \ndoors for her career\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/10\/Reba-Molotis-Photo-320x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"Reba Molotsi Cog Sci Alum '23\" class=\"wp-image-17986\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Reba Molotsi<\/strong>, each co-op work term opened the door to new opportunities. A 2023 Cognitive Science graduate (concentrating in Biological Foundations of Cognitions), she gained experience in government relations, data analysis, and business development before joining KF Aerospace as an ITB &amp; Commercial Lead. Here, she shares how her co-op and early work experiences helped shape her career journey.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/co-op\/story\/reba-molotsi-career-story\/\">Read her full story.<\/a> <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Reba Molotsi, each co-op work term opened the door to new opportunities. A 2023 Cognitive Science graduate (concentrating in Biological Foundations of Cognitions), she gained experience in government relations, data analysis, and business development before joining KF Aerospace as an ITB &amp; Commercial Lead. Here, she shares how her co-op and early work experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17987,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions\/17987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}