Youthab

Career Edge - Employment Ontario Services

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Description

Comprehensive employment and job search services
  • assessment of skills, interests and experience
  • job search strategies, including resume preparation
  • information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
  • on-the-job training, work experience, help in maintaining employment as well as information and referral to other employment and community services
Better Jobs Ontario
Skills training and financial support for laid off workers
  • training program must demonstrate good job prospects
  • financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
Services for employers
  • help in identifying human resource skills 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 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
Youth Job Connection
  • paid pre-employment training services
  • job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
  • mentorship, education and work transition supports

Youth Job Connection Summer
  • summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

Eligibility
Self-service information and resources
  • 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) -- people who are unemployed and out of school
Youth Job Connection
  • 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
  • Ontario high school students 15-18 years intending to stay in, or return to high school or go on to postsecondary education after the job placement
  • focus on those facing challenging life circumstances and at risk of experiencing poor transitions between education and work
Better jobs Ontario
  • laid off individuals who are currently unemployed
  • individuals from low-income households experiencing labour market challenges


Application Process
Call or drop in * 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 www.ontario.ca/employmentontario
Toll Free
1-866-859-9222
Office
613-354-0425
Fax
613-354-1085
Web Site
Visit Website
Email
questions@youthab.ca
Languages
English
Fees
None
Documents Required
Contact office for documentation requirements
Accessibility
Partially Accessible
Topic(s)
Social Media
Agency Information
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Copyright
Community Navigation of Eastern Ontario / Navigation communautaire de l’Est ontarien
Last Updated On
November 23, 2021
Address
2 Dairy Ave, Unit 9
Greater Napanee, ON, K7R3Y5
Cross Streets: Centre St N and Advance Ave
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Hours of Operation
Mon
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Tue
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Wed
8:30 am to 6:00 pm
Thu
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Fri
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm, closed between noon-1 pm for lunch; Wed 8:30 am-6 pm, closed between noon-1 pm for lunch, Wed by appointment only.
Service Area(s)
  • Greater Napanee
  • Lennox and Addington County