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Job Solution

JobSolution helps young adults ages 18-29 from all walks of life to become productive in the work-force.

At JobSolution, we:

  • Explore job skills and interests
  • Provide group and individual employment counselling and workshops
  • Help young adults get and keep a job
  • Work with the business community
  • Promote Workplace Safety and Health
  • Offer counselling around personal and social issues that make it hard to get and keep a job
  • Provide flexible Adult Day Services as required

Job Counselling

We start with personal job counselling to see how job-ready you are, and what you think you need to find a job you would be good at and able to keep. Our counselling helps you identify what may stop you from getting a job, as well as identify your strengths and skills:

  • Career planning
  • Learn how to focus your job search
  • Use your own support network to find work
  • Interview skills
  • Workplace Safety and Health

When you’re job-ready, we can help connect you with employers, and we provide tools to help you complete your own successful job search:

  • Assistance in resume writing
  • Updating and printing resumes
  • Phone message service
  • Escorting participants to job interviews

SUPPORTS FOR KEEPING A JOB

  • Supports to help you find and keep a job:
  • We visit work sites to help ensure success in keeping a job
  • We provide ongoing help with conflict resolution, time management and workplace issues
  • We don’t give up (and neither should you): we stay with you if you lose your job and then we try again

SUPPORTS FOR A GOOD LIFE

We can help support you in coping with issues that may be keeping you from a job.

We help in many ways – helping you move to a stable place, doctors’ appointments, connecting you to community resources.

Most JobSolution participants find and maintain a job through our program.

We also believe success is in life is more than having a job (although that is pretty important!)

We think a good life includes:

  • Taking on challenges
  • Taking on adult responsibilities and being good citizens
  • Having hopes and dreams
  • Having people who believe in you and respect you
  • A strong peer support network
  • Helping out in the community
  • Feeling safe and keeping healthy
  • Ongoing training and education

Your life can change: JobSolution can be there for you as you deal with ongoing challenges in life. Our participants are always welcome to come in for a cup of coffee, to update a resume, to get job leads, and to talk to someone about what’s happening in your life.

The Canadian economy is in a time of transition. Younger job-seekers report that they are finding it harder to get a job. Employers have a wider pool of workers to choose from, and today’s job-seekers need a competitive edge to succeed in the labour force.

The Conference Board of Canada’s Employability Skills 2000+ identifies critical employability skills as:

Fundamental Employment Skills:

Communicating clearly, managing information, thinking about and solving problems.

Teamwork Skills:

Working with others, able to participate in projects and tasks.

Personal Management Skills:

Able to demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours, be responsible, be adaptable, learn continuously, and work safely.

JobSolution, is designed to meet the needs of young adults by providing them with skills that can lead to paid employment. Young adults with multiple barriers, including those with intellectual disabilities who are currently eiligible for day services funding, may also qualify for this program.

JobSolution provides:

  • On-going intake
  • Participant-centred goal setting
  • Work-readiness assessment
  • Pre-employment workshops
  • Peer support
  • Technology training
  • Job interest and skill identification assessment
  • Direct support in preparing resumes and cover letters
  • Counselling and skill development in job search techniques and interview skills
  • Supported job searches
  • Involvement with participants natural networks to explore work options and ongoing identification with the labour force.

To find out more about JobSolution or to register for our program, contact:

JobSolution

55 Donald St. 2nd Floor
Winnipeg MB R3C 1L8
(204) 783-7951 ext. 102

Fax (204) 779-8969

Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm Monday to Friday

JobSolution@newdirections.mb.ca

For Employers

Brochure about JobSolution

 


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