• 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

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• 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

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• 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

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment training, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
  
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

• Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

Provides employment and training services for job seekers and employers
Job seeker services include the following:

• Individual or group employment counselling
• Support, information and publications on career planning
• Workshops and online information for writing resumés, cover letters and interview skills
• Assistance with online job registration and posting documents for job advertisements
• Job alert notifications sent to job seekers email address
• Maintenance of updated list of employers and supplying individuals with all posting positions

Employer services include individualized employer support from job posting through to hiring of qualified employee(s) and consist of:

• Online job posting website
• Assistance with registering vacant job positions
• Cost efficient method of recruiting for job vacancies
• Storage of data in electronic files

Works to create jobs and improve the commercial and industrial base

• Provides assistance and coaching with business plans, including cash flow forecasting
  
• Offers research and information on topics such as basic start-up, expansion, export readiness, market research and marketing strategies and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) guidelines
  
• Offers training seminars geared to small businesses

Business Assistance Loans and Consulting

• Provides financial assistance for business development through loans, equity investments and loan guarantees (to a maximum of $150,000 per business)
  
• Provides technical counselling and advice to area businesses
  
• Offers business consulting and planning
  
• Provides a business library including research assistance and computer access

• Offers employment counselling
• Provides support, information and publications on career planning
• Maintains local labour market information and trends for the area
• Facilitates community presentations and workshops related to employment
• Assists with the development of work action plans
• Teaches job search techniques and strategies
• Offers computer lab areas, access to a photocopier, facsimile and telephones for job search activities
• Accommodates individuals with disabilities who have been accepted into training programs

Financial AssistanceIndividuals enrolled in programming may be eligible for:

• Training wages while receiving on-the-job training
• Training allowance while attending training
• Supplementary allowance for child care, commuting or accommodations and related expenses if living away from home during training

Projects may be eligible for financial assistance to off-set costs related to:

• Hiring of training instructors
• Purchase of training supplies and materials
• Overhead costs to cover actual expenses
• Costs for purchase or lease of training equipment
• Special costs to accommodate persons with disabilities

Self Employment Program

• Provides financial support for people who are on, or who have been on Employment Insurance and are starting own business
• Provides coaching tailored to needs and may include subjects such as business plan development, accounting, marketing
• Provides ongoing technical advice and the use of computers

Training Programs offered are:

• Occupational Skills development acquired through classroom training or on- the-job experience combined with classroom training
• Job Readiness Training
• Academic Upgrading
• Staff Development
• Employment Maintenance skills

Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community

• Works closely with Wasaw Enterprises, a for-profit corporation focused on sustainable and effective small and large project management in Northern Ontario
  
• Provides information, training and educational workshops to enhance employability skills
  
• Responsible for working with the Lands and Resource department for development of plans for the use of traditional lands for community members
  
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
  
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
  
• Maintains local business directory

Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community

• Provides information, training and educational workshops to enhance employability skills
  
• Responsible for working with the Lands and Resource department for development of plans for the use of traditional lands for community members
  
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
  
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business

Initiatives Mitaanjigamiing First Nation (MFN) is involved with include:

• Collaboration with other community members/groups for the development of the Mitaanjigamiing First Nation Strategic Plan
  
• Affiliations with ongoing mining initiatives including Canadian Malarctic and New Gold
  
• Possible development of an Eco Tourism Lodge
  
• Discussions with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry concerning formalization of co-management of a campsite on Crown Land at Boffin Lake
  
• Signing of a cooperation agreement with the Region 1 Métis Nation of Ontario regarding Mitaanjigamiing’s Treaty Land Entitlement Claim
  
• Forest industry activities
  
• Representation in the Rainy Lake Tribal Development Limited Partnership
  
• Board member representative on Grand Council Treaty #3 Trapper's Board