It’s an old problem: you need experience to get a job, but without that all-important first job, how do you get experience?
BioTalent Canada’s Career Focus Program helps crack the conundrum by encouraging employers to hire new graduates. It provides companies with subsidies to offset the costs of orientation, integration and skills development.
The BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program makes it easier for employers to hire the talent they need-and for job seekers to gain the work experience they require – by subsidizing the salary of a recent graduate to a maximum of $10,634 for 12 months.
The BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program gives graduates the opportunity to:
"The Career Focus Program has helped me gain full-time employment and has helped me build important career development skills. A great program that provides incentive for recruitment of new graduates." Karam T.
A Career Focus job is often the gateway to longer-term employment - nearly everyone who completes the program is hired on after his or her placement is finished.
To read more about the success of this program please read our "The experience quotient - How to ensure new graduates are adequately prepared to work in Canada's bio-economy" report.
To qualify for a Career Focus subsidy, you must meet the following participant criteria and:
1. Not be in receipt of employment insurance (EI) benefits during your placement.
2. Be 15 to 30 years of age inclusive (if a participant turns 31 during the placement they are still eligible).
3. Have recently graduated from an accredited post-secondary institution.
4. Be out of school.
5. Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or person granted refugee status in Canada.
6. Be legally entitled to work in Canada and in the specific province where the placement is to occur.
7. Not have previous work experience in the bio-economy (internships and coops are excluded from this stipulation).
8. Complete a personalized Learning Plan with the prospective employer before a placement can begin.
1. Ensure you meet the participant eligibility criteria stated above.
2. Complete the Participant Information Form, sign it and submit it with an updated copy of your resume via one of the options on the form. If you are submitting electronically:
- A signed and scanned version of the participant information form is acceptable; however, an electronic signature is not accepted.
- Please do not include your date of birth or SIN information.
3. You will be contacted by BioTalent Canada within five business days regarding your eligibility for the Career Focus Program.
4. If you do not already have a position, you can search for available positions and research potential employers on BioTalent Canada's PetriDishTM employment bank at www.petridish.ca or other online biotechnology job banks listed under the Links section.
BioTalent Canada assumes no legal responsibility towards applicants or companies seeking subsidies. For further information, please contact us at careerfocus@biotalent.ca.
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