This services offers one-on-one career counselling and job preparedness workshops.
It offers support for Internationally trained professionals and second career applications.
There is pre-employment training, referrals and paid job placements for individuals aged 15-29.
This program provides:
- Comprehensive employment and job search services
- skills assessment
- resume preparation
- employment and training opportunities
And the following government programs:
Second Career Program - skills training and financial support for laid-off workers
Youth Job Connection
- paid pre-employment training
- job matching
- paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
- mentorship
- education and work transitions support
Youth Job Connection Summer - summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year
- Services for employers
- help in identifying their human resource skill requirements
- matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
- support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support success and retention
Canada-Ontario Job Grant
- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
- available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees
151 Queen St N
Hamilton, ON
L8R 2V7
Self-service information and resources eligibility: anyone, including people with jobs, those who are under-employed, people looking for work, students, apprentices, internationally trained individuals, employers
Assisted services (such as supported job search, job matching and placement, job retention services) eligibility: people who are unemployed and out of school
Youth Job Connection eligibility: Ontario residents 15-29 years who are eligible to work in Canada, unemployed, not attending school full time and experiencing multiple barriers to employment
Youth Job Connection Summer eligibility: Ontario residents 15-18 years who intend to continue high school or go on to post-secondary education after the job placement * focus on those facing challenging life circumstances and at risk of experiencing poor transitions between education and work
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For general information on Employment Ontario services call the toll-free Employment Ontario contact centre at 1-800-387-5656 (TTY 1-866-533-6339) or visit their website.