The national website also has an interesting approach to providing direction to its visitors by subdividing its services into “audiences.” You can sort through available services according to these categories:

• Aboriginal Peoples Children
• Employers and Entrepreneurs
• Media
• Non-Canadians and Migrants
• Parents and Caregivers
• Persons with Disabilities
• Researchers
• Seniors
• Students and Youth
• Survivors
• Workers (employed & unemployed)

Or, you can search the website and the department’s services based on the type of situation that is confronting you and for which you need help. These options include:

Birth and Adoption Dealing with death Di sability Education and Returning to school Lost Documents Reti rement Returning to work Un employment

This website provides human resource development information by region as well. You can select a province and area to submit inquiries about the local labor market that provides an annual perspective, community information and labor market bulletins. These local profiles provide a remarkably thorough description of labor market trends, local industries, populations and so forth. You can learn about local labor markets at http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca/standard.asp?ppid=92&lcode=E

Their job bank page also includes information about a number of government funded employment opportunities for youth, disabled persons, and apprenticeship and intern opportunities. Their Job Creation Partnership is a public-private venture wherein individuals that are receiving unemployment benefits or have recently exhausted them may apply for a position in the program. They are then placed in a short-term job in the sponsor’s workplace that will augment their income and give them recent work experience to include on their resume. It’s an interesting program designed to ease unemployed Canadians back into the job market.

Canada also has a number of grants and loans programs for individuals who want to return to school in order to develop a career or upgrade their current level of qualification. Those programs are explained at http://www.jobsetc.ca/category_drilldown.jsp?category_id=79&crumb=68&crumb=70.

One of the best choices for job training certification courses in the country is CDI College. They have a school of business, a school of technology and a school of health care. They have thirty two campuses in seven provinces that provide a vast array of training programs in their three schools.

You can study for all sorts of medical assistance programs, technology courses in networking or programming; and accounting and paralegal programs through the business school. CDI provides short term, concentrated courses of study that lead to certification in various fields of expertise and will make you a marketable employee with state of the art skills. It’s a great start for your own human resource development in Canada.

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The Human Resources and Skills Development web page can be found at http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/ en/home.shtml. There are links to the province governments’ HR websites. There is also an entire section devoted to educational resources for job seekers, including public resources for loans and school financing. Also on the Canadian Human Resources and Skills Development page is a comprehensive list of training and adult education sites, both public and private.

In the field of information technology, there is a non-profit Canadian organization called the Software Human Resources Council. Their website (http://www.shrc.ca/index_e.html) is an informative resource on industry trends, occupational skills that are evolving and the state of the labor market in information technology in Canada. The site provides a profiler tool to help you build a resume and identify your strengths.

You can find a long list of web sites with job listings in the industry, government agencies that provide human resource services both nationally and in the regional governments. Many of the agencies are members of the SHRC. You can also find a public sector job bank listing there.

In the private sector there are a number of schools and colleges, both online and on campus, that are designed to help Canadians further their education. Some of these schools offer complete college degree programs and others provide concentrated courses of study, some of which lead to certification, that are designed to get the student into the workforce. One of those is CDI College, which has thirty three campuses scattered through seven provinces. CDI focuses on three areas of study divided into the School of Business, the School of Technology and the School of Health Care.

Some of CDI’s programs focus on technical job training that will get you into an industry and give you an opportunity to decide how far up the professional ladder you wish to go and whether or not you will need additional education. For instance, in their medical field training programs there are nine different courses of study for every imaginable type of medical or nursing assistant.

Under business, their legal department offers five legal assistant and legal clerical training programs and five paralegal programs. Two of the paralegal programs lead to certification. In the paralegal field today, you can achieve an associate’s or bachelor’s degree as well. The CDI courses provide an excellent beginning that will allow you to work if you choose to pursue further study through online programs or night classes.

With typical Canadian efficiency, there is a national online job bank located at http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/Intro_en.asp . It is the largest online job bank in the nation, listing over 700,000 jobs per year. And, as is customary with all communications Canadian, it is done in both French and English.

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