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Northern Community Development Services
Ontario Employment Services
- Description
- Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
- Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
- Provides job search strategies, including resumé preparation
- Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
- Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
- Offers help in maintaining employment
- Provides information and referral to other employment and community services
Skills training and financial support for unemployed individuals- training program must demonstrate good employment prospects
- financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
- Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
- Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
- Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention
- Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
- Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees
- Offers paid pre-employment services, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
- Also provides mentorship and education and work transition supports
- paid pre-employment services
- summer employment opportunities
- part-time jobs available during school year as long as they don't conflict with school
- mentorship, job-coaching and help returning to school after the program ends
- 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
- Services such as supported job search, job matching and placement, job retention services
- People who are unemployed and out of school
- Individuals who have been unemployed for six months or longer and are part of a low-income household
- Ontario residents 15-29 years who are eligible to work in Canada, unemployed, not attending school full time and experiencing multiple barriers to employment
- Ontario residents 15-18 years who intend to continue high school or go on to postsecondary education after the job placement
- Focus is on those facing challenging life circumstances and at risk of experiencing poor transitions between education and work
- 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/page/employment-ontario
- Toll Free
- 1-866-974-5627 - (1-866-974-JOBS)
- Office
- 807-274-2282
- Fax
- 807-274-2352
- Web Site
- https://www.ncds4jobs.ca/
- [email protected]
- Mailing Address
- c/o Sheryl Supinski
304 Scott St
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 1G9
Canada - Languages
- English, French
- Contact
- Sheryl Supinski, Executive Assistant
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 807-274-2282 ext 223 - Executive Director
- Nicke Paddock
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 807-274-2282 ext 232 - Fees
- Program - Some workshops/training require minimal fees to cover licensing and supplies ; None
- Accessibility
- Fully Accessible
- Topic(s)
- Social Media
- Agency Information
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- Copyright
- 211 Ontario North
- Last Verified On
- May 30, 2024
- Address
- 300/304 Scott St
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 1G9
Located at Scott St near Portage Ave; Across the street from Fort Frances Post Office
Open in Google Maps - Hours of Operation
- Mon0830 to 1700Tue0830 to 1700Wed0830 to 1700Thu0830 to 1700Fri0830 to 1600
Mon-Thu 8:30 am-5 pm, Fri 8:30 am-4 pm,
Emo Office: Wed, by appointment only - Service Area(s)
- Rainy River District
