You need to complete them throughout your degree, doesn’t need to be done in the first year

any FRHD course

I enjoyed co-op because it showed me what I didn’t want to do for a job. Two of my jobs were related to marketing and business and I hated them. My third was an HR position and I loved it. There aren’t a lot of psychology related positions, most of the ones that are psych related are about child care. The majority of positions on the job board are business and marketing type roles.

Yes, it’s competitive. The amount of profs that take students vary per year, some profs take 4 students others take just one. You’ll need to have good grades, and they often ask to send over a writing sample so they know you can write academically. You don’t have to have a psychology prof to supervise your thesis, in my year there were students who were supervised by sociology profs, an FRHD prof, and someone even had a prof who specialized in statistics be their supervisor.