Les métiers spécialisés incluent quatre catégories principales : la construction, le transport, l’industrie manufacturière et les services.
Milestones to Employment assists visible minority newcomer women with little or no previous work experience, who are open to entry-level careers in the high-demand Commercial Cleaning and Senior Care sectors.
Sheet metal workers fabricate, assemble, install and repair sheet metal products – from furnaces and ventilating systems to all sheet metal products used in the construction industry.
Established in 1999, everywoman is the expert in the advancement of women in business. Everywoman is a professional organisation that drives the development of women at all levels.
Job openings. Decent wages. Experts say the skilled trades have a lot to offer women — and vice versa. So how do we encourage more women to get into them? In 2015, Rebecca Chenier was looking for a new career. She and her three kids had just returned from living in Costa Rica, where she’d waitressed and run a surf camp. She’d separated from her husband and was living with her parents in Windsor. It was, she says, a “restarting phase of life.”
ApprenticeSearch.com is a free online job search and matching platform with an exclusive focus on apprenticeship trade positions in Ontario.
Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says. Learn more from her TED Talks.
This week on the Construction Record podcast Journal of Commerce staff writer Russell Hixson spoke with BC Centre for Women in the Trades (BCCWITT) outreach coordinator Lindsay Kearns, a British Columbia organization that seeks to attract women to trades careers as well as ensure retention in the industry for women. Lindsay is a Red Seal journey electrician and said her work in the organization sprang from a desire to create a community for herself and fellow women in the trades and also to address the lack of peer mentorship for women when men often join the trades, receive hand-me-down tools or learn of opportunities through families and friends.
CareerWise is a program of CERIC funded through a grant by The Counselling Foundation of Canada.
Thirty per cent of Canadians who identify with a specific diversity group, including visible minorities and LGBTQ, have experienced at least one incident of discrimination at their current employer, a new survey suggests.
Developing the competencies necessary to serve this gifted but highly barriered population is a critical skill for employment professionals. Here is a summary of three major mistakes made by career development professionals when they support individuals who live on the spectrum.
Early March brought International Women’s Day and all the requisite hashtags and headlines. It was a time to reflect on how far women have come, and how much farther they have to go. Women have been gaining ground in many male-dominated industries, including real estate, architecture and design. But the building side of the industry hasn’t seen the same interest from female candidates — an issue the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) has been addressing in its public awareness initiatives.
Tellent is a diversity recruitment and social impact company striving to close the talent gap in the new work economy. Tellent work with flexible work opportunity seekers and businesses to make work, work better for everyone. Tellent’s mission is to increase women’s economic contribution, progress gender equity and prepare companies for evolving workforce trends to stay competitive in the Future of Work.
A detailed research paper that discusses the participation of women in Canada’s automotive industry.
Unifor is hopeful about the future of skilled trades training and development following the announcement of Skilled Trades Ontario.
Job Talks is an employment marketing and research agency. This is their YouTube channel, where they feature a lot of workers from the skilled trades sector.
Women in Mining Canada is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021 Trailblazer Awards. Please join us in congratulating: Trailblazer Award: Monica Moretto (Vice President, Social Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion, Pan American Silver Corp.), Indigenous Trailblazer: Leona Aglukkaq (Director, TMAC Resources Inc.), Indigenous Student Trailblazer Award: Taryn Cutler (Community Liaison and Office Manager, Seabridge Gold Inc.), Student Trailblazer Award: Lori Manoukian (PhD Candidate, P. Geo, McGill University), and Rick Hutson Mentorship Award: Dr. Jeanne Paquette (Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University).
The Canadian Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC) announced Freshco as the 2017 CGLCC LGBT+ Business of the Year Award recipient at the organization’s Black & White Gala.
Skills for change helps over 14,000 people a year with professional workshops, settlement counseling and other services.
In celebration of National Women’s History Month, the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA) is releasing a National Strategy for Supporting Women in Trades. In 2019, CAF-FCA led a task force of more than 60 skilled trades stakeholders who came together to guide and inform a strategy to create measurable change for women’s representation in skilled trades careers in Canada. The industry-driven strategy has four measurable action items that are intended to generate awareness, trigger policy change, recognize best practices, and create skilled trade workplace environments where women’s representation increases.
A few months ago I received an email from Ed Youdell, president of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, also known as my boss’s boss’s boss. The email was addressed to me, which obviously piqued my interest. Why would the president be contacting me, of all people? I opened the email before I had the chance to freak out and assume the worst.
Career Edge has compiled tips and guides to make job searching a little easier.
A data-rich, job-matching technology platform. Discover Ability is a free online portal and resource that connects Ontario businesses directly to people with disabilities.
Women In HVAC-R mission is to provide a forum to promote the inclusion and advancement of women in the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC-R) industry in Canada. The organization, Women in HVACR Canada, will achieve their objectives through networking, education, mentoring and professional development activities specifically dedicated to supporting women in building long-term productive careers in a thriving, essential services industry.
Being a female in a dominated career can be hard, but to start that career with no money and everyone telling you, you shouldn’t be doing it makes it even harder. In this video, there are the top 5 tips/life lessons learned from a story of a welder named Barbie.
