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In This Bulletin:
Member News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
South West Regional
Meeting
Renew your agency’s
membership today!
Toronto Niagara
Regional Meeting
South East Regional
Meeting
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and
announcements
Who's Hiring?
Mentors
can help with career development
Post-65 workers
'productive and engaged'
Events
The GTA Chapter of the
OACDP is pleased to invite you to our Spring Breakfast PD Event (Toronto)
Light Industrial
Training Program (London)
Property Maintenance
Program (London)
New sessions confirmed
for Imagine Canada (Toronto)
The Canadian
Counselling Association Conference (St.
John's)
Online Resources
The 10 Step Career Planning
Guide
Occupational
Profiles (over 500) developed by the Government of Alberta
HRVS: Developing Human
Resources in the Voluntary / Non-profit Sector
Job Postings
Manager, Employment Services (Ottawa)
Employment counsellor / Job Developer (St.
Catharines)
Researcher - Action for Neighbourhood Change (Ottawa)
Co-odinator, Youth Crisis Response (Cobourg)
Adult Employment Counsellor (Tillsonburg)
THE COSTI VAUGHAN
CENTRE REQUIRES AN E.D.G.E. EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANT (Concord)
Employment Counsellor (Job Coach) (Mississauga)
Member News
Next South West Region meeting is on April 15th, 2005, 10:00 am. Location to
be determined, an agenda will be sent prior to the meeting.
Renew your agency’s membership today!
New membership fees effective April 1st 2005: Ratified at September 16, 2004
AGM.
Full members pay:
*Budget does not include stipends to clients but include education and
training funding for education, training, pre-employment activities.
Our Full Members:
As a full member, you can be confident that ONESTEP will be looking out for
you while you look out for your clients.
Toronto Niagara Regional Meeting
Next Toronto Region meeting is on April 6th from 9:00 am- 12:00 pm
Next meeting is on April 20, 2005, at YEAH Inc. at 10:30 am.
Location: YMCA, 42 Charles St., 9th Floor Auditorium
We will send out an
agenda before the meeting.
News/Alerts
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) predicts about 2.7
million new jobs will be created over the next five years due to increased
economic activity and increasing numbers retiring from the workforce.* Most jobs
will value brains —two thirds, in fact, require post-secondary education or
training.
Click here
for more information.
Mentors can help with career development
Studies have found that senior executives say that having a mentor to turn to
for advice helped their careers.
Click here
for more information.
Post-65 workers 'productive and engaged'
With moves afoot to abolish mandatory retirement in Ontario, many concerns
employers might have about those who work past 65 have been proven unfounded
elsewhere.
Click here
for more information.
Events
The GTA Chapter of the OACDP is pleased to invite
you to our Spring Breakfast PD Event (Toronto)
Our topic, Sizing -up Your Client: Finding out if you client is employable
and in what kind of work, will feature a panel discussing psycho-vocational
testing.
Click
here for more information
Light Industrial Training Program (London)
This 8 week program prepares individuals to work in any factory, warehouse or
light industrial setting.
Click
here for more information
Property Maintenance Program (London)
This 8 week PMT program prepares individuals to work in the cleaning
industry.
Click
here for more information
New sessions confirmed for Imagine
Canada (Toronto)
JHU International Symposium March 22 and 23/Confirmation de nouvelles
interventionsau Symposium international d’Imagine Canada et de JHU des 22 et 23
mars
Click
here for more information
The Canadian Counselling Association
Conference (St. John's)
The theme of the 2005 conference is "Roots of Resilience." Organizers invite
you to St. John's to enjoy the many opportunities to learn, inspire and network
with your peers.
Click
here for more information
Online Resources
The Resource Library is an online searchable database of information about community-based employment and training across Ontario and beyond. Visit the ONESTEP Resource Library: www.onestep.on.ca/resource/intro.cfm Below are some recent additions:
The 10 Step Career Planning Guide
This resource contains a comprehensive and interactive web guide that will
help you/your clients through 10 steps of the career planning process. The best
way to step through the process is to do each section in sequence. The first
five steps help the person to look inward, while the last five steps help to
discover information about the world around us. The 10 sections are: values,
personality, learning styles, skills, interests, options, research, connections,
goals, and actions. You will need to set up a username and password to access
this online guide.
Click
here for more information
Occupational Profiles (over 500) developed by the
Government of Alberta
A recently updated listing of over 500 occupational profiles, which
correspond to the NOC. This resource contains detailed infromation and useful
additional links.
Click
here for more information
HRVS: Developing Human Resources in the Voluntary /
Non-profit Sector
HRVS is Developing Human Resources in the Voluntary/ Non-profit Sector. Our
goal is to help non-profit organizations attract and keep the skilled and
committed paid staff they need to fulfill their missions. This site provides
free practical tools and information on human resources management for
non-profit organizations.
Click
here for more information
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