The Youth Employment Strategy (YES) has provided another $198,000 towards helping youth find gainful employment in Canada. A press release announced that the government of Canada would provide a local New Glasgow business funds to supplement the creation of 10 jobs… Read more »
Youth Employment Fund Helps Connect Employers with Skilled Young Workers
Through the provincial Youth Employment Fund (YEF), employers in Ontario can receive up to $6,800 to offset training and wage costs linked to a job placement for a young person. To be eligible for this hiring incentive funding, employers must… Read more »
Canada Job Grant 2014
It’s been a long time coming, but it appears that the country is finally ready for the Canada Job Grant to take off. As of July 7th, Newfoundland and Labrador signed off on the program, becoming the last of the… Read more »
ICTC Career Connect Now Closed
All funding for the 2014-2015 round of the ICTC Career Connect Program has now been allocated. The program, which is aimed to help connect employers with unemployed or underemployed Information and Communications Technology graduates, helped 100 job seekers this year.… Read more »
Youth Employment Fund (YEF)
The Ontario government has recently launched its comprehensive Youth Employment Fund (YEF) to promote employment and innovation through the creation of 25,000 new job opportunities for youth. The objective of the YEF program is to provide unemployed youth between the… Read more »
NorthBridge Success Story: Ontario Confectionery Company Receives Funding for Hiring of Recent Graduate
NorthBridge engaged an Ontario confectionery company that was looking to hire a recent graduate from a STEM field (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics). The company wanted to hire an engineering undergraduate student to help with equipment installation, design, product engineering,… Read more »