Employer Services

Recruiting & Hiring Services

Conestoga’s Career Centre Employer Services provides employers with customized services to connect job seekers with opportunities to gain marketable skills and knowledge needed to obtain employment.  One of the goals of Employer Services is to connect employers who are willing to provide on-the-job training (including apprenticeship training and work experience, internship and mentorship opportunities), with individuals who are eager and ready to be trained to become fully productive members of the workforce.

Conestoga’s Career Centre Employer Services can assist in:

• assessing potential candidates skills and abilities in relation to employer workplace needs
• posting employment vacancies across all Conestoga Career Centre locations
• facilitating employer workshops such as the “Are You Ready” workshop designed to assist employers with hiring and retaining Internationally Experienced Immigrants
• developing a work experience, or on-the-job training plan that is skills based for the participant and consistent with the employer’s workplace requirements
• monitoring participant performance and identifying resources for skill enhancement
• assisting employers with identifying and resolving workplace issues
• providing financial incentives to offset some of the costs associated with providing an effective work experience or on-the-job-training placement; financial incentives are not available in all cases and are determined on an individual basis
• linking employers to other Conestoga College Employer services

Employers are invited to participate in Conestoga’s Employment Ontario Employment Services if they are willing to:

• provide quality supervision and training
• participate in the development of a comprehensive training plan prior to the training
• comply with scheduled monitoring of the participant’s progress
• provide opportunities for job trials, informational interviews, mentoring, on-the-job training placements or on-going employment

Participating employers must:

• be licensed to operate in Ontario
• comply with all applicable legislation including federal/provincial human rights legislation, regulations and any other relevant standards, occupational health and safety act, employment standards act, freedom of information and protection of privacy legislation
• maintain appropriate WSIB or private workplace safety insurance and have adequate third party liability insurance as advised by its insurance broker
• not use placement services to replace existing or laid-off employees
• Cannot hire his or her spouse, sibling or child as a trainee;
• Be receiving government funds from any other source for the same training placement

As well, employers must commit to:

• demonstrate the ability to provide trainee with adequate supervision and an identified training plan
• provide feedback and assessments, as required
• having potential for long-term employment/contract position for the participant
• provide the trainee with the same employment terms, conditions and benefits as for all regular employees
• provide the trainee work within Ontario