Canada Summer Work Experience Program 2012

“Creating jobs, strengthening communities”

Canada Summer Jobs is a Government of Canada initiative that provides funding to help employers create summer job opportunities for students. It is designed to focus on local priorities, while helping both students and their communities.

About Canada Summer Jobs 2012

Canada Summer Jobs:

• provides work experiences for students;
• supports organizations, including those that provide important community services; and
• recognizes that local circumstances, community needs and priorities vary widely.

Canada Summer Jobs provides funding to not-for-profit, public-sector and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to create summer job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in the next school year.

The application period for Canada Summer Jobs 2012 will be from February 1 to February 29, 2012.

NOTE: To obtain more information please consult our Frequently Asked Questions or call 1-800-935-5555.

Criteria

The criteria to assess the proposals focus on:

• service to local communities;
• jobs that support local priorities;
• jobs that provide career-related experience or early work experience;
• jobs with a salary that contributes to the student’s income;
• employers who provide supervision and mentoring;
• project activities that are directed toward members of, and support the vitality of, an official language minority community; and
• employers who intend to hire priority students (students with disabilities, Aboriginal students and students who are members of visible minority groups).

Locally defined priorities will be made available on February 1, 2012.

Canada Summer Jobs Applicant Guide

To support employers, the Canada Summer Jobs Applicant Guide will be available online and at Service Canada Centres starting February 1, 2012. This guide provides instructions on how to fill out an application, information on eligibility requirements and the assessment criteria.

Other ongoing federal government programs that assist with the cost of employees are:

Small Business Internship Program
This program is aimed at E-business projects.
Web page:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sbip-pspe.nsf/eng/h_00010.html

Career Focus
This program is aimed at people getting their first job after graduating from any post-secondary program.
Web page:
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/epb/yi/yep/newprog/career.shtml

Skills Link
This program is aimed at people who might have difficulty getting work for reasons such as:

• are single parents;
• are of Aboriginal descent;
• have disabilities;
• are recent immigrants;
• live in rural and remote areas; or
• have dropped out of high school.

Skills Link web page:
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/epb/yi/yep/newprog/skillslink.shtml 

Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
Web page :  http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/of/index.shtml

Aboriginal Futures:
This program is aimed at work experience opportunities for First Nation candidates.
The web page:
http://www.aboriginalfutures.com/wage_subsidy.html