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Youth Employment Strategy - Summer Work Experience
Supporting Students, Serving Communities
Under the Youth Employment Strategy, the Summer Work Experience program creates summer employment opportunities for secondary and post-secondary students, and supports the operation of Service Canada Centres for Youth where they may also find a job. These jobs provide students with the opportunity to acquire skills, gain valuable work experience and help finance their return to school.
Summer Work Experience includes:
- Canada Summer Jobs, an initiative that provides funding for not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to create summer job opportunities for students between the ages of 15 and 30; and
- Service Canada Centres for Youth (SCCY), which help youth and employers with their summer employment needs, are located across Canada and open to the public from May to August. Free of charge, these offices:
- help students find summer jobs
- offer group information and one-on-one sessions on
- résumé writing
- preparing for interviews and
- looking for a job
- offer services to find motivated employees for the summer months
- offer up-to-date information on
- wage rates
- labour laws
- health and safety in the workplace
- other federal, provincial and territorial youth employment programs.
Lists of organizations that received Canada Summer Jobs funding in 2008
Contact information
- Youth Info Line: 1-800-935-5555
- TTY: 1-800-926-9105
- In person at a Service Canada Centre near you
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