If you want to join Manitoba''s highly skilled, diverse workforce, you''ve come to the right place.
Whether you''re just starting out on your career path, or looking to change direction, the following links should help you chart your course.
As you can see, we divided the content into six sections, each full of useful links to departments and programs offered by the Government of Manitoba. Explore the links and discover the career opportunities waiting for you in our province.
Job Preparation
Employment and Training Services: The employment centres help people find jobs, plan careers and get advice or financial support for training that leads to long-term employment.
Tips
Successful cover letters
Résumé writing
Interview skills
Types of questions
Common interview questions
Interview planning form
Ways to improve interview skills
Follow-Up letter to the interviewer(s)
Finding Work
Civil Service Commission: Manitoba government jobs opportunities.
Physician Job Opportunities: If you are a doctor looking for professional challenge and outstanding quality of life, consider the complete package offered by Manitoba, Canada.
Health Careers: Find job postings in the health care field.
Red River Floodway Expansion Job Referral
Wuskwatim Generating Station Job Referral
Job Bank:Find jobs posted daily by employers from across Manitoba and Canada.
Skilled Trades:
Apprenticeship Training: Apprenticeship is quality, low-cost, post-secondary training leading to certification as a journeyperson in a trade.
The Red Seal Program (Trade Certification): The Red Seal Program allows qualified tradespersons to practice their trades in any participating Canadian province or territory, making these qualifications transferable.
Students:
Manitoba Youth Job Centres: Helps students find summer employment; open for business from May to August each year.
STEP Services: Youth can register online for summer and part-time employment; and, co-operative education work with the Government of Manitoba and related organizations.
Hometown Green Team: The Hometown Green Team (HGT) program is designed to create meaningful and career-oriented summer employment opportunities for students and unemployed youth aged 16 to 24 by encouraging organizations to initiate a variety of community development projects that will improve neighbourhoods and help build young leaders.
Urban Green Team: The Urban Green Team Program is designed to create meaningful and career-oriented summer employment opportunities for students or unemployed youth aged 16 to 24 by encouraging organizations to initiate a variety of community development projects that will improve neighbourhoods and help build young leaders.
Aboriginal Youth Internship Program: Aboriginal Youth Internship Program provides Aboriginal students the opportunity to explore career opportunities in the financial and other sectors. Students earn school credits for attending a workplace for one half day a week for a semester.
Black Youth Internship Program: Provides high school students with school-year internships and mentorship in the financial/business sectors and summer jobs. Also provides cultural awareness and job search workshops.
Career Focus: Assists educational institutions to help their students find work related to their career plan by providing wage incentives to employers.
Legislative Internship Program: The program provides graduates of Manitoba''s universities or graduates of other universities who are permanent residents of Manitoba with an opportunity to experience first hand the legislative process within the Manitoba Legislature. In addition to being directly involved with the legislative process, the Interns participate in a series of seminars dealing with all aspects of the governmental process.
Manitoba Mentorships: Provides subsidy of up to $3.40/hr for up to 200 hours, to businesses who create meaningful part-time employment for post-secondary students. During the school year.
Partners with Youth: Contracts with non-profit, community-based organizations, institutions or private training agencies to deliver projects that will improve the participants'' general employability (i.e. further training, career coaching, etc)
Partners for Careers: Provides placement and pre-employment training with an emphasis on First Nation, Métis, Inuit graduates of High School, College, University and specialized training.. Operates single window on information related to training, employment and education.
Youth NOW: Contracts with non-profit, community-based organizations, institutions or private training agencies to deliver projects that will improve the participants general employability by offering employability skills training, work experiences and job placements
Senior Years Apprenticeship Option: This program lets you start apprenticeship while still in high school. It links regular Senior Years school instruction with paid, part-time, on-the-job apprenticeship training.
People with Disabilities:
Building Independence: Job readiness training for recipients of Employment and Income Assistance
Human Services Guide: A web site which provides information on many services offered by the departments of Advanced Education and Training, Education, Citizenship and Youth and Family Services and Housing. It is a searchable database of basic eligibility criteria, frequently asked questions, related links, and contact information.
Manitoba WorkinfoNET: A family of web sites connecting you with a variety of free, reliable and up-to-date employment, career planning and learning resources in Manitoba.
10 Essentials to Get That Job, An Employment Guide for Persons with Disabilities
Foreign Trained Workers
Recognition of Foreign Qualifications
The Medical Licensure Program for International Medical Graduates (MLPIMG): Helps foreign-trained physicians get medical licenses to practise as primary care physicians in Manitoba.
Career Exploration
Manitoba Job Futures: This is a great site to check out if you want to research a particular career or sector. It can help you find detailed information on wages and salaries, skills, working conditions, education and training.
Manitoba Career Planning Guide: The Career Planning Guide summarizes 200 Manitoba occupations, describing industries of employment, long term employment outlook, salaries, training, education and recommended high school courses.
Consider a Career in Agriculture
Consider a Career in Manitoba Justice
Consider a Career as a Natural Resource Officer
Aboriginal Public Administration Program: The Aboriginal Public Administration Program (APAP) is your opportunity to prepare for a career in public service. This two-year term development program will provide enhanced opportunities for Aboriginal people to work in government.
Funding
Nurses Recruitment and Retention Fund: The Nurses Recruitment and Retention Fund helps find and keep registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and registered psychiatric nurses in Manitoba.
Medical Student/Resident Financial Assistance Program (MSRFAP): The MSRFAP provides conditional grants, to students studying medicine in Manitoba and physicians establishing a practice in the province upon graduation.
Employment Insurance - retraining programs: In Manitoba, programs and services for Employment Insurance recipients are administered by Manitoba Employment and Training.
Employment Skills
Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR): PLAR is a process to identify, document, assess and recognize skills and knowledge. PLAR can help you identify the skills and knowledge you already have for finding work.
Employability Skills 2000+: Employability skills are the skills you need to succeed in the workplace. Employability Skills 2000+ includes communication, problem solving, positive attitudes and behaviours, adaptability, working with others, science, technology and math skills.
Labour Market
High demand occupations in Manitoba
High demand skills in Manitoba
High demand skills in Aboriginal communities
