| | The Agriculture and Food Council launched the Soil to Sky portal on June 27, 2006. This single location for on-line ag career and job information, and links to employers is an effort to draw young job seekers toward an agriculture and food career. It is hoped that the information on Soil to Sky will be of interest to students looking for a first job, displaced workers, new immigrants and those just wanting to see what employment opportunities are available. The website was created in response to the worker shortage being experienced by employers in many sectors of Alberta's economy, including agriculture and food. Soil to Sky isn't a job bank that advertises specific employment opportunities. The portal takes existing information and links to resources in an accessible and searchable central location. The Soil to Sky web portal was created from the Council's Human Resources Information Exchange Centre project. It is a partnership of the Innovation in Agribusiness Management Fund (IAMF), Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Agricultural Policy Framework: A Federal Provincial Territorial Initiative. Soil to Sky can be visited at www.soiltosky.ca. For more information, contact Brad Salomons, HRIEC Manager, Agriculture and Food Council, at (780) 955-3714 ext. 236 or info@soiltosky.ca. |
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