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Youth Employment Fund-This is the official Government of Ontario web portal for Employment Ontario. Whether you're laid-off, unemployed or looking for a new job, we can help. If you're an employer, we can help you get the people you need.

This page of the Statistics Canada website provides a detailed account of the Youth in Transition Survey - an 8 year study conducted of youth aged 18-20 and the major educational, career and personal transitions which occur during young adulthood.

I am particularly interested in working with at risk youth. It has been identified that youth unemployment and underemployment is in fact rising and is, amazingly, higher than during the recession! This article talks about medium and large companies getting on board to help young people gain skills during high school and/or post-secondary in order to add practical experience to their resume, along with their debt-inducing education. It will be interesting to see what happens over the coming years.

This article explores how some employers are experimenting with new ways to hire, train and invest in young people, even if they have no experience, for highly-skilled, specialized positions. I think this is an interesting new trend, considering that many youth are facing unemployment or are underemployed because of employers looking for experience.

This week I started on JobBank.gc.ca and searched my local market, York Region (as listed under "Basic LMI Resources - Where to Start" in our course notes). As I typically work with students, this particular site www.betakit.com and an article about funding for youth entrepreneurs was a great source of info to share with my students! Reza Moridi, Minister of Research and Innovation, was at Communitech this morning in Waterloo and announced a partnership with the Campus-Linked Accelerators (CLA) and On-Campus Entrepreneurship Activities (OCEA) to help students interested in building their own business gaining skills to succeed. The CLA is investing $5.8 million and the OCEA providing over $650,000.