Ontario East is filled with skills development programs to help job seekers find sustainable employment while giving local employers access to a reliable and highly-skilled workforce. Right now, job seekers can access apprenticeship programs, co-op programs to learn new skills and get on the job training. Loyalist College’s Elevate Plus program helps Bay of Quinte residents who want to upskill or reskill to enter the local manufacturing or food processing sectors. The Quinte STEP program offers online training in the form of 3 weeks of soft skills training followed by 8 weeks of free training or certification in specialized sectors.
Both employers and job seekers can benefit from STEP.
Currently, STEP prioritizes placing unemployed citizens, permanent residents, refugees, and CUAET newcomers.
If you’re a job seeker interested in STEP you must be:
Please note: Unfortunately, employed persons are ineligible, only persons with precarious employment. Regular temporary residents in Canada on work permits are also ineligible, anyone who is on a work permit but is not an international student or displaced person. Please contact STEP to learn more.
For the first 3 weeks of STEP, participants get free soft skills online training, the perks of which include:
Bookmark the Skills Training Resource Guide.
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