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ASPIRE for Employers

ASPIRE | Sector: Financial Services

ASPIRE has been designed to bring together Financial Services employers and in-demand student talent. Their job-matching platform enables financial services businesses to promote co-ops, internships and other temporary positions to a student talent pool. Students can apply directly to employers to ensure a streamlined application process.

Career Edge

Career Edge | Sector: General

The Career Edge paid internship program aims to help individuals facing barriers to employment connect with top employers in Canada, secure employment opportunities, and launch meaningful careers.

CareersNOW! Employer

Food and Beverage Ontario | Sector: Food and Beverage

CareersNOW! Employer is Food and Beverage Ontario’s workforce development program to support Ontario’s food and beverage processing employers. Employers can create a free account to gain access to profiles of qualified individuals, post job opportunities and have them targeted to qualified candidates, and hire students and future employees through work integrated learning programs at colleges and universities. This initiative is part of CareersNOW!, a program that is equipping jobseekers with essential skills training and access to opportunities.

Elevate Talent

Elevate | Sector: Technology (ICT)

Elevate Talent was founded as a direct response to the underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQ+ and Francophone professionals in the Canadian tech industry. Businesses can partner with Elevate Talent to: Engage and recruit from Elevate Talent's cohorts of skilled and qualified candidates to fill open roles; Shape Elevate Talent training programs by identifying the essential job skills for tech professionals; and Support the pipeline of diverse and underrepresented talent into the tech and innovation industry.

Employment Ontario Peel Region

Employment Ontario Peel and WCG Services | Sector: General

Employment Ontario Peel offers a simple cost-free way of hiring job ready, qualified candidates to fill your vacancies. Access a pool of motivated people who are actively looking for work and ready to start right away. They also provide a captive audience to your job postings and can create, promote and host hiring events or share information about your events. Their jobseekers are prepared for the job market and offer a variety of experience across industries and career stages; if you have hiring needs, their team can help.

Flexible Upskilling Network (F.U.N.)

Prepr, Government of Canada | Sector: General

The Flexible Upskilling Network (F.U.N.) program is a blended, hands-on learning experience combining valuable work experience with accelerated skills training. Employers can apply to gain access to pre-trained, pre-qualified digitally capable candidates from diverse backgrounds in digital career paths. F.U.N. also provides employers with a wage subsidy to cover 11 weeks of full-time employment (40 hours a week, a minimum of $15/hour) or a maximum wage subsidy of $6,600.

Government of Canada Job Bank

Government of Canada | Sector: General

Job Bank's free tools and resources can help employers find, hire, and retain the right workers, learn about diversity and inclusion in the workplace, explore the job market and stay informed about employment standards.

Magnet

MAGNET | Sector: General

Magnet provides the platform for student recruitment for some of Canada’s largest employers. With one job posting, Outcome Campus Connect allows employers to connect with over 1 million student accounts from 85+ post-secondary schools across Canada. Job postings are shared with job seekers based on pre-selected skills, qualifications, and competencies.

Mitacs

Mitacs | Sector: General

Connect with the Mitacs business development team to solve your innovation challenges through access to highly skilled talent and the right academic expertise.

OBIO Health to Business Bridge

OBIO® | Sector: Life Sciences

OBIO Health to Business Bridge Program supports improved access to early career talent across Ontario's health science sector. OBIO H2BB offers companies access to pre-screened candidates, advisors and training for all early career roles including business, quality, regulatory and R&D.

Onyx Initiative

Onyx Initiative | Sector: General

The purpose of Onyx Initiative is to expand the Black Talent pipeline by fostering cohesive, mutually beneficial partnerships to close the systemic gap in the recruiting and selection of Black university and college students and recent graduates for roles in corporate Canada.

Peel Halton Workforce Hub

Peel Halton Workforce Development Group | Sector: General

The Peel Halton Workforce Hub is an interactive toolkit to connect to and understand Peel and Halton Regions labour market. It includes tools such as a job board, sector map, talent map, job demand report, job search report and more. The website also provides resources on labour market information that may pertain to industry shifts, in demand occupations, emerging educational trends, economic forecasts, labour market data and more.

Sheridan Works!

Sheridan College | Sector: General

Sheridan Works is a platform where Sheridan students and employers can engage in a variety of career-related and job-related activities. Employers can post jobs to the Sheridan job board and for the co-op/internship job board. Employers can review co-op/internship job applications, select interviewees, participate in virtual interviews, rank students for job offers and complete forms for Cooperative Education.

The Petri Dish

BioTalent Canada | Sector: Life Sciences

The PetriDish is Canada’s only national bilingual biotechnology job board. From entry-level and internationally educated professionals to senior level applicants, The PetriDish connects employers to over 17,000 skilled and experienced job seekers. It aims to assist employers in reaching candidates exclusive to the bio-economy and saving time sorting through resumés.

The Vector Digital Talent Hub

Vector Institute | Sector: Technology (ICT)

Vector’s Digital Talent Hub is an online platform exclusively dedicated to connecting employers with machine learning talent actively seeking high-impact employment opportunities. It's a place to post both internship and full-time roles in machine learning and data science.

Labour Market Information

Bio-economy Labour Market Research

BioTalent Canada | Sector: Life Sciences

Access Canadian bio-economy labour market research reports conducted covering topics including: Labour Market Information for the Biotechnology Industry (2007-2009), Connecting and Advancing Women in Biotech (2014-2017), The Bio-economy Labour Market Information (LMI) Study (2018-2021) and more. BioTalent Canada identifies as the HR partner of and catalyst for growth in Canada’s bio-economy.

ManufacturingGPS

EMC | Sector: Advanced Manufacturing

Provided by Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC), ManufacturingGPS is a fully searchable interactive labour market information (LMI) system with benchmarking, skills and capability resources, reports and outreach portal to better help the manufacturing sector. There is no cost for industry to participate in ManufacturingGPS.

Peel Halton Workforce Hub

Peel Halton Workforce Development Group | Sector: General