Career Counsellor Support– We can provide you with access to our skills platform that includes assessments, skills content and a management platform to support your candidates.
Customized Solutions – We can provide customize solutions to support your own services. This could include content development, a customized platform and learning paths.
Your Own Platform – For Indigenous Employment centers, BIPOC counselors we can provide you with your own branded, managed, fully loaded Skills Development Platform as part of our VAR program.
Career Counsellor Support
Many career counsellors and employment centers across the country also need support in understanding each of their candidate’s skills gaps and being able to provide access to skills development programs, online resources and career development tools. In partnership with Indigenous Works, you will have access to all the resources you need to better support their candidates in becoming job ready.
Your communities and candidates trust you and we want to support that by being part of your support process. In doing so, once you become one of our partners, you will be provided with administrative access to your branded platform which would provide you with all the resources required to support your candidates. We would work with you to set-up the platform, help integrate your candidates, align required resources, assessments, content and reporting. Our all-on-one solution will help you become more effective, efficient and provide increased benefits to your candidates that they will thank you!
Our goal in supporting counsellor and employment centers across Canada is to create an ecosystem that creates opportunities that go beyond local communities. With access to our platform, you will be able to easily focus on your people development while we continue to work to provide you with you with the resources you require. This will include employment opportunity pipeline, access to resources to assess, train, communication and support your candidates for their immediate needs, but also with them in the future.
While you would be working with candidates that are interested in all sectors, our current focus is in supporting the financial sector by building a pipeline of candidates that could be placed with financial companies across Canada. As we work with you, we will be looking for candidates that can become part of our pipeline of resources to introduce to our corporate partners. As we grow together, we will also begin looking at other sectors that could help expand your employment pipeline for your candidates.
Your platform will provide you with complete governance over your candidates, their progress, results and with the ability to interact fully. You will also be able to access a robust reporting repository so that you can have reviews with candidates, status and result based reports up to other stakeholders not only during the development of your candidates, but also throughout their career growth.
It is important that even after your candidates get placed that they are still able to have someone they can connect with for support. While on the job, through our platform, you will be able to stay connected. Your candidates would continue to have access to the system to be able to continually develop their skills. Our library of resources will continue to support them, but that also includes their ability to ask questions, advice and also collaboration with their peers from your center. All within the platform. This way they are never alone!
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
We are looking forward to working together! Please complete the following form. Our team will then set-up your profile and provide access to our management system where all the magic happens. You will receive an email with 24 hours that will include your login details.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Internships may occur in the middle of an academic program or after all academic coursework has been completed and prior to graduation. Internships can be of any length but are typically 12 to 16 months long.
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Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
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Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
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Co-op alternating consists of alternating academic terms and paid work terms. Co-op internship consists of several co-op work terms back-to-back. In both models, work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study. The number of required work terms varies by program; however, the time spent in work terms must be at least 30% of the time spent in academic study for programs over 2 years in length and 25% of time for programs 2 years and shorter in length.
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Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
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Apprenticeship is an agreement between a person (an apprentice) who wants to learn a skill and an employer who needs a skilled worker and who is willing to sponsor the apprentice and provide paid related practical experience under the direction of a certified journeyperson in a work environment conducive to learning the tasks, activities and functions of a skilled worker. Apprenticeship combines about 80% at-the-workplace experience with 20% technical classroom training, and depending on the trade, takes about 2-5 years to complete. Both the workplace experience and the technical training are essential components of the learning experience.
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Entrepreneurship allows a student to leverage resources, space, mentorship and/or funding to engage in the early-stage development of business start-ups and/or to advance external ideas that address real-world needs for academic credit.
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Applied Research students are engaged in research that occurs primarily in workplaces, including consulting projects, design projects, and community-based research projects.
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Both the Ontario and the Quebec governments provide a Co-operative Education Tax Credit to businesses hiring students enrolled in a recognized CO-OP education program.
NEW: Enhancing the Co-operative Education Tax Credit
The 2009 Ontario Budget introduced enhancements to the Co-operative Education Tax Credit (CETC), effective for eligible expenditures incurred after March 26, 2009, that will:
increase the 10 per cent CETC rate to 25 per cent and the enhanced 15 per cent rate for small businesses to 30 per cent;
increase the maximum tax credit available from $1,000 to $3,000 per work placement.
There are opportunities that could help financial support employers.
For other programs on funding, please visit the following web sites:
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
