Youth Employment Fund Information Session

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Job Search AssistanceCareer Planning Apprenticeship OptionsAccess to Employment Ontario Programs

Summer Jobs Service

WHAT IS YEF?WHAT IS YEF?

The fund is set up to provide an entry point to long-term employment through a job placement that offers the chance to learn work skills while earning an income

Fund kicked off Sept. 23, 2013

Start dates have begun for training/placements!

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

A person between 15- 29 years of age

Unemployed but with a career goal

Not participating in full-time training or education

Resident of Ontario

TRAINING COMPONENTTRAINING COMPONENT

Includes short-term, non occupation-specific training

Directly linked to a job placement

WHAT TYPES OF TRAINING?WHAT TYPES OF TRAINING?

Examples of eligible training could include but are not limited to:

Written/oral communications (e.g. public speaking)

Health and Safety (e.g. first aid, WHMIS) Business Skills (information

management) or Technology (word processing)

The training cannot exceed eight weeks in length.

OTHER SUPPORTOTHER SUPPORT

Work Clothes, Footwear Equipment, Uniforms Tools, Supplies Child Care Expenses Transportation Costs (i.e. gas

cards, bus tickets)

JOB OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:JOB OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:

Customer Service Electrical Apprenticeship

Automotive Apprenticeship

Stock Clerk

Photography Assistant Retail

Security Manufacturing IT Food & Beverage Bakery Assistant

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO THE EMPLOYER?WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO THE EMPLOYER?

Hiring incentives for employer Free staff training to address placement related skills gap

Pre-screening of candidates Contributing to the growth of the sector

NEXT STEPSNEXT STEPS

Complete the ministry paperwork today

Meet with an Employment Service Consultant to determine eligibility/suitability for service

FAMOUS PEOPLE – THEN AND NOWFAMOUS PEOPLE – THEN AND NOW

Bobby Flay Then: High School Drop Out Now: Executive Chef

Hosted 12 cooking shows on Food Network including “Boy Meets Grill”

Jamie Oliver Then: Peeled Potatoes in Parents’ Pub Now: Host of the TV show “The Naked Chef”

THEN AND NOWTHEN AND NOW

Quentin Tarentino Then: Usher Now: Film Director

Videl Sassoon Then: grew up in orphanage until age 11; quit

school at age 14 became a hairdressing apprentice

Now: Legendary Hair Stylist (deceased May 2012, age 84)

THEN AND NOWTHEN AND NOW

Albert Einstein Then: quit high school at age 15; later returned

to complete it; failed entrance exams to university first time around

Now: Renowned Physicist – Nobel Prize Winner 1921 for Theory of Relativity

(March 1879 – April 1955)