Career Essentials

Marketing Strategies

Relevant marketing strategies assist clients in identifying the specific skill sets they have to offer potential employers and ideas for targeting their skills, talents and abilities.

Work Placements

Career Essentials participants are provided with the opportunity to actively engage in the local labour market through a minimum five-week voluntary work placement. Newcomers gain valuable work experience in a Canadian career setting and establish a network of contacts.

Other topics include

• Networking strategies
• Accessing the "hidden" job market
• Problem solving and decision-making
• New technologies
• Verbal and written communications
• Labour standards and human rights
• Self-awareness
• Time management

"The clearer your vision of what you seek,
The closer you are to finding it."
- Richard Bolles

Participants:

• Get to know the Canadian Labour Market
• Learn strategies to break down employment barriers
• Identify transferable skills
• Engage in document assessment and accreditation processes
• Prepare targeted resumes
• Write effective cover letters
• Cultivate occupation-specific language competencies
• Develop strategic interview skills and techniques
• Participate in a volunteer work placement

Essential Skills

Career Essentials integrates the nine Essential Skills as identified by the Government of Canada, which provide participants with the expertise to participate successfully in a knowledge society and a global economy.