Student and Graduate employment opportunities are available online and each campus offers Graduate Employment Services (GES) to students. The GES team is committed to ensuring that students have access to employability skills training and a variety of career resources.
At NSCC you will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills you are learning in a variety of ways. You can expect to practice your skills at the Campus through projects, simulations and teamwork. During your program, you will explore career options through real workplace experiences external to NSCC
Learners enrolled in a one-year certificate program will typically complete an applied learning work placement in the third semester unless the program has approved alternate learning opportunities. Two-year diploma programs will have applied learning work placement experiences throughout the program and are a graduation requirement as determined for each program of study.
Thank you for partnering with NSCC. Creating pathways to employment is an important part of what we do. Your commitment to provide an applied learning placement will give learners an opportunity to connect knowledge and skills to an authentic work experience. This Applied Learning Partner’s Guide will assist you in your role as mentor, clarifying responsibilities during this vital component of the education process.
"In this paper, we examine practices implemented by forest processing firms to increase retention of Aboriginal employees in the workplace from the perspective of Aboriginal women workers. Although cultural sensitivity trainings were a common ameliorative used by companies, Aboriginal women working for these firms were equivocal in their opinions of them. While some Aboriginal women found the recognition of Aboriginal culture empowering, others found the exercise tokenizing, particularly when white 'experts' made presentations explaining Aboriginal culture.
My purpose in writing this chapter is to reiterate briefly the overall thrust of the commission's work and to comment on the impact the report appears to be having after two years in the pub- lic domain. I would be presumptuous to claim that these few pages could provide a balanced synopsis of the five volumes and 3500 pages of the commission's report. My comments represent a perspective, much of it grounded in the words of the commission itself that is highly selective in emphasis.
This paper reviews the purpose, vision, and contents of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, while exploring its potential impacts, economic and otherwise, on Aborignal peoples.
The Small Business Internship Program enables small and medium-sized businesses to obtain funding to hire post-secondary students for 12-week full-time internships in a field related to information and communication technology.
The Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) helps match students with federal departments and agencies for temporary jobs by maintaining a national inventory of students seeking employment within the federal public service.
"Despite the many statutes and even constitutional documents that propose to implement a society free of racism and discrimination, immense barriers still exist that prevent us from reaching our full potential. The Canadian government has implemented measures to ensure that employment equity becomes a reality. The four designated groups--women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, and people with disabilities--have statutory and constitutional measures designed to increase their employment.
