Job Development for Today- A Sector Specific Approach
Article Sidebar
-
job development, job, sector, employment, career practitioners, job developers
Abstract
Job Developers and Career Practitioners promote job seekers to employers in order to help them find meaningful employment. Because of today’s complexity in the labour-market and specificity of job requirements, the task of job developers is getting more complicated. So, a sector specific approach may help Job Developers understand the needs of the labour market and lead them towards success in assisting job seekers find jobs. In order to build effective client promotion strategies, Job Developers need to clearly understand the current trends in the labour market, and then try to match their clients’ skills with the requirements of the vacant jobs. Once this match is successfully made, they can start promoting job seekers to the employers. This article has been prepared on the basis of experience obtained as a Job Developer and Project Coordinator of a bridging program for internationally educated engineers called “Engineering Connections”, which ACCES Employment has been running for over 4 years. This article reveals how a sector-specific job development approach can help Job Developers match job seekers’ skills with the labour market requirements, and eventually promote them to the employers.
Full text article
References
Bissonnette, D. (1994). Beyond traditional job development: The art of creating opportunity. : Milt Wright & Associates, Inc. Publication.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2009, February), How many people will immigrate to in 2009? Retrieved November 12, 2010, from http://immig-canada.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-many-prople-will-immigrate-to.html.
Hireimmigrants.ca (2010), Finding links to programs that familiarize newcomers with the workplace. Retrieved November 15, 2010, from http://www.hireimmigrants.ca/how/5
Immigration to (2010), immigration plan 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2011, from http://immig-canada.-blogspot.com/2010/11/canada-immigration-plan-2011.html
Statistic (2010), Study: Quality of employment in the Canadian immigrant labour market. Retrieved October 28, 2010, from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/091123/dq091123b-eng.htm
Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright in the article is vested with the Authors' under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Under this license:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Canadian Journal of Career Development right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
