Services for Employers
While it is true that job seekers must be competitive and appropriately skilled for any job that they may apply for, it is equally true that modern day employers need to be competitive in order to attract the best and most suitable candidates.
Many employers, especially small companies and self employed individuals, do not have extensive HR resources built into their business model.
There are a variety of community resources that are available that may help you to develop skills in this area and we encourage you to use the links to see how you can be best supported.
Developing an effective hiring and firing process will help you to maintain the efficient workforce that is appropriate for your needs. Assessing the business environment in which you are located will also help you to understand the labour pool from which you are drawing or need to avoid.
We will gladly post any jobs that you wish to fill at our Carleton Place Office. Simply FAX your job posting to us. If we find that we have any suitable candidates, we will encourage them to apply.
As well, we have several useful on line sites that are well used by employers.
Some are free, others do have a cost. As an employer, the Canadian Career Academy has often used some of these sites when recruiting for our own internal needs.
If you do not have strong HR skills, read some of the ad styles for content and relevant recruiting information. You want to tell your "best story" so that you can attract the correct candidate.
Here are two free websites that we find to be very useful.
There are a number of very useful wage subsidy and training incentive programs that are intended as a support to help an employer grow his business.
- Financial support for the training of existing staff and selected incoming staff………in the Lanark County area, we encourage employers to speak with Valley Heartland / Community Futures, based in Smiths Falls 613-283-
- These agencies are valuable sources of financial support for the business community. Staff upgrade training dollars can be available, as well as, ongoing business development workshops, guest speakers, business coaching and so on.
If an employer sees potential in a possible candidate, but the candidate is lacking some of the desired skills, then a Wage Subsidy helps to support the investment in hiring. The candidate and the time needed to develop the missing skills will vary. Accordingly, the wage supports may vary per training needs.
This Employment Ontario program provides a temporary wage subsidy to employers as an incentive to hire individuals they would not otherwise hire, usually as a balance between skills that are missing and the cost of providing the skills development opportunity in house. Employers will benefit with the wage subsidy by being able to develop staff skills that they require, in balance with, the financial support for this development. The Targeted Wage Subsidy (TWS) is applied to individuals who are having difficulty finding work. These individuals may well be skilled, but may be lacking some skills in an area of specific need to the potential employer. Unemployed individuals benefit by learning new skills and gaining valuable work experience that is relevant to the employer’s needs.
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The Wage Subsidy is designed to provide on-the-job work experience to unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible to receive Employment Insurance and are experiencing difficulty in finding work; and enable employers to hire people who face barriers to employment (people they might not otherwise hire) by offering temporary wage subsidies while the new employee develops the required skills on site. |
Contact our Job Developer, Kim Field
613-257-3237 |
Job Creation Partnership (JCP) is another Employment Ontario program, but does have some different goals and uses.
This program is aimed at supporting community and non-profit groups who need assistance in their community development work. Eligible participants (employees) who are hired under this program will benefit by a full time hands-on learning experience in a field of work that is relevant to their long term employment and career goals.
In some cases, this could be pioneering a new service or program for the community and can often lead to regular employment once the product has been established, however, by the nature of the program as a training experience, the employed candidate is also expected to maintain a job search effort.
Employed candidates build marketable skills in a field of work that is of relevant interest. The employing agency benefits by the development of their community programs.
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Ontario Job Creation Partnerships is an employment program that provides work experience to unemployed job seekers within projects that benefit the community or local economy. At the end of their participation, participants in the program will have recent work experience and additional skills to add to their rÉsumÉs, increasing their chances of successfully finding long-term employment. |
Contact our Job Developer, Kim Field
613-257-3237 |
Other support programs do exist that are designed to help young people gain practical work experience. The two programs do offer a wage benefit to employers in an effort to provide meaningful work experience for youth.
Summer Jobs Service
For summer job service contact Algonquin Employment Services: 613-267-1381
Apprenticed trades are all in need of young people willing to learn the trades through this time tested combination of hands-on and classroom learning.
Governments in all jurisdictions recognize and support this valuable skills development tool.
In all of the Canadian Career Academy activities, we encourage young people to consider this avenue. We help the client complete the necessary steps. As an employer, interested in providing an apprentiship, we will help to recruit a suitable individual and where warrented may be able to provide some financial incentives / benefits that will assist with the training component fo the apprentiship period. We also will not hesitate to call a particular employer if we suspect that there might be an interest. If this contact only reinforces the idea of apprenticeship for the young person, we will have helped to move the process. In some cases this has lead to a formal arrangement.
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1-800-387-5656
www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/tcu/employmentontario/training/ |
| - Want to work in the skilled trades? Employment Ontario has services right across Ontario that can help you.
Learn about trade certification: Find out which trades require certification in Ontario.
Choose a career: Learn how apprenticeship training works, and the kinds of careers you can choose. You can also visit our Career Finder to find out which jobs are in demand, and learn about many careers.
Learn about apprenticeship options: Find out about the many different pathways to apprenticeship that can help you train for a career. |
We do encourage employers to contact us with any questions relating to workforce development.
Our goal, and that of Employment Ontario, is a well educated and informed workplace.
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