Sectoral Career Focus Program – National Seafood Sector Council Project

  Définition Description

1. Title of Initiative

Title or name as specified in official documentation, e.g. funding contract

Sectoral Career Focus Program

2. Provider Name of organisation responsible for delivering the initiative National Seafood Sector Council (NSSC)
3. Sponsor Name of organisation responsible for funding the initiative Human Resources Skills Development Canada
4. Date Commenced Month and year (if known) when the initiative first came into operation August, 2005
5. Date ended If this initiative is not longer in operation, please give the month and year when it came to an end, if known. March 31, 2008
6. Targeted Audience Is the initiative aimed at specific groups, or is it more general in application? Please specify any demographic or employee groups being targeted.

Graduating PSE

Recent graduates wanting to enter the food and seafood processing workplace facilities across Canada.

7. Location Is this a national initiative, or is its coverage limited to a particular region or locality? If so, please specify the region or locality covered. Nation-wide
8. Overview of Program Please give a brief description of the initiative, in one or two sentences. The Sectoral Youth Career Focus Program offers seafood and food processing employers an opportunity to receive a wage subsidy to hire skilled youth on a 6-12 month placement.
9. Why Developed / Problems / Issues Targeted What are the main aims or objectives of the initiative? Is it designed to address any particular problems or issues? If so, please specify what these are.

The objectives of the Sectoral Youth Career Focus Program are to:

  • Increase the supply of highly qualified people to our sector;
  • Promote the benefits of advanced food and seafood processing and other related studies to youth;
  • Demonstrate leadership, in partnership with Government of Canada, by investing in the skills required to meet both the professional needs of
    youth and the labour needs of the food and seafood processing industry in an evolving economy; and
  • Help highly skilled young people go from school to work in a rapidly changing labour market.