FREE Employment Services

Individual and Group Services

Individual Planning & Coordination

Clients will meet with a counselor to develop a plan and determine which employment services are most appropriate for them. Referrals to programs, ongoing support and follow-up is provided throughout the process.

Workshops

Group workshops are in one-day, two-day or one-week formats.

  • How To Workshops (Resume and Job Interview)
  • Career Exploration: Planning for Change
  • Winning Interview Techniques
  • Refining your Marketing Tools
  • Networking for Success
  • Your Rights and Responsibilities
  • Word Processing
  • Email & Internet Navigation
  • Social Media

Career Exploration: Planning for Change

This is a one-week program for individuals who don’t have a clear job objective. During the week, you will be looking at values, interests and personality types using various techniques and tools including:

  • Self-assessment
  • Research
  • Decision-making
  • Creating an Action Plan

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Winning Interview Techniques

Participants will join a one-week group that will provide them with all the information and practice they need to
succeed at an interview:

  • Interview preparation
  • Behavioural interviews
  • Mock interviews

Refining Your Marketing Tools

One-week group workshop with individual assistance covers:

  • Resumes
  • Cover letters
  • Reference letters
  • Business cards
  • Thank you notes
  • Employment proposals and portfolios
  • Access to computer lab

Participants need a job objective and some knowledge of computers.

Networking for Success

One-week group workshop, which covers the following topics:

  • Learning what networking is
  • Building networking skills
  • Developing business cards, elevator speech, phone script
  • Becoming familiar with online and other resources
  • Warming up to cold calls

Participants in this workshop need to have a clear job objective and an open mind to change.

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Your Rights and Responsibilities

This two-day workshop is filled with vital information regarding Health & Safety and Human Rights.
Specific topics include an overview of:

  • The Employment Standards Act
  • Ontario Human Rights Code
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act
  • Workplace Violence and Harassment (Bill 168)
  • Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)

Word Processing

This one-day workshop will teach the very basics in word processing:

  • Desktop features
  • Keyboard layout
  • Microsoft Word and Windows
  • File management - Opening, saving and re-naming
  • Formatting - Bold, underline, italics, etc.
  • Work on a sample resume

Email & Internet Navigation

This is a one-day, basic computer-training workshop, which will enable participants to:

  • Set up an email account
  • Learn email basics
  • Learn about attachments in an email
  • Do online applications
  • Text resumes
  • Begin Internet job searching

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Social Media

This one-day workshop is designed for individuals who are intermediate computer users and who have a resume and email account. Topics include:

  • Understanding the function of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in your job search and career development
  • Setting up a Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter account
  • Joining a LinkedIn group
  • Introduction to several different blogs
  • Using the applications and learning to navigate the online
  • world of digital communications

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This Employment Ontario service is funded in part by the Government of Canada