Hire a Student!

Supporting Students, Serving Communities

A Tool for Employers

Lighten your workload this summer.
Let us help you hire a student!

Each year, Service Canada helps employers find students to fill summer positions. As an employer, you can get quick access to students ready to put their skills to work for you by contacting one of the more than 300 Service Canada Centres across Canada.Whatever the job—big or small, short or longer term—we can help you fill it by posting a job notice where students and youth will see it on our virtual job banks and in our centres. Our services benefit your business or organization by helping you get dynamic and enthusiastic summer help.

We provide employers with:

• job-posting services;
• information on wage rates and employment standards;
• potential employees for more permanent positions; and
• information on other Government of Canada and provincial/territorial employment initiatives.

Under the Summer Work Experience program, Service Canada and partner departments offer several initiatives to help you fill your summer positions.

Canada Summer Jobs

Canada Summer Jobs is a Government of Canada initiative. It provides funding for not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to create work experiences for students between the ages of 15 and 30.

Canada Summer Jobs is about:

• providing work experiences for students;
• supporting organizations, including those that provide important community services; and
• recognizing that local circumstances, community needs, and priorities vary widely.

Canada Summer Jobs is focused on encouraging not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to create jobs that not only meet their needs, but benefit students looking to gain work experiences. The postmark deadline for employers to submit their applications is February 27, 2009.

For more information on the Canada Summer Jobs initiative:
Click Servicecanada.gc.ca Call 1-800-935-5555 (TTY: 1-800-926-9105)
Visit a Service Canada Centre 

The Government of Canada also offers other summer opportunities for employers to hire youth.

Canadian Heritage’s Young Canada Works (YCW) sponsors three summer job programs: YCW for Aboriginal Urban Youth, YCW in Heritage Organizations, and YCW in Both Official Languages. For more information, call
1-800-935-5555 (TTY: 1-800-926-9105), visit www.youngcanadaworks.gc.ca, or e-mail ycwcoordinator@pch.gc.ca.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada provides funding through the First Nations and Inuit Youth Work Experience Program for secondary and post-secondary students. For more information, we invite you to contact your local First Nation administration, hamlet office, regional management organization, or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regional office, or visit
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca.

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