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Programs for youth
Youth safety information
Job search support
Youth employment facts
Bonus!
100
THIS program helps youth between 15-30 with significant barriers to employment gain pre-employment training coupled with a paid placement
What is Skills Link?
100
All new workers must complete THIS legislated safety training as of July 1st, 2014.
What is the Occupational Health and Safety Act's 4-Step Safety course?
100
The KEYS Employment Resource Centre offers top quality, hand's-on support in writing THESE very important job search documents.
What is the resume and cover letter?
100
Kingston is known to have one of the highest rates of THIS in Ontario.
What is youth unemployment rate? Almost one in five Kingston youth is out of work (and looking!).
100
Recently employed individuals can make use of THIS handy city program to get around town.
What is the Kingston Transit Employment Program (Transit Pass)?
200
A great program to get you your first job as a 15-18 year old.
What is (Summer) Jobs for Youth?
200
The number of times new workers are more likely to be injured during their first month of work.
What is three times?
200
Where can you make your first batch of business or networking cards, grammar checked and printed in colour?
What is the KEYS Employment Resource Centre?
200
What do youth have more than twice as much of nationally than adults?
What is unemployment? (Canadian youth unemployment is at 15.1%)
200
Young people registered in high school programs may receive credit for work by doing one of THESE.
What is a Co-op placement?
300
Underemployed or unemployed youth can register with THIS service if they want to work one-on-one with an employment advisor.
What is Youth Employment Services?
300
Though youth have a relatively high fatality rate at work, THESE are their most common workplace injuries.
What are sprains and strains?
300
Job seekers and employers still make good use of THIS archaic technology to send and receive resumes.
What is the fax machine?
300
74 million youth are without THIS globally.
What is a job?
300
Newcomers who are not in school have access to THESE additional programs.
What is LINC English Classes, the Mentoring Partnership, Employment Ontario and all youth programs?
400
Participants in THIS program get a $2/hour wage subsidy paid to the employers as an incentive to hire them.
What is Summer Job Service?
400
The new version (as of April 1, 2015) of "Fall Arrest", a training to protect workers when working three feet or higher.
What is Working from Heights?
400
An excellent on-line networking tool.
What is LinkedIn (or Facebook or email)?
400
Age at which one can acquire a SIN number.
What is newborn?
400
The main response by the federal and provincial governments to relieve youth unemployment has been to provide THESE incentives to businesses, coordinated by employment centres.
What is an Employment Subsidy? (Also funding, placements...)
500
Full-time, paid career-related work experience for post-graduates is the goal of THIS youth employment program.
What is Career Focus?
500
THIS bill attempts to protect workers from violence and harassment in the workplace. Provides guidelines on what behaviour constitutes bullying and sexual harassment.
What is Bill 168? - Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) 2009.
500
When a youth conducts a job search, THIS personal quality can be more important to employers than their work history.
What is positive attitude/enthusiasm?
500
According to a report by the Canadian Council of Academies released in May 2015, over the past 22 years, Canadian companies have decreased investment in THIS by 40 percent.
What is basic training per employee?
500
When considering a new hire THIS type of candidate offers: affordability, proven return on investment, they are ready to mould, have solid business skills, new perspectives and facilitate succession planning for a company.
What is a recent graduate?