Employment
Just for Youth and Students:
- Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP)
The Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) helps match students with federal departments and agencies for temporary jobs by maintaining a national inventory of students seeking employment within the federal public service. - Youth Employment Strategy - Career Focus
The Career Focus program offers youth a range of work experiences, learning and skill-building activities to help them choose careers and to encourage them to pursue advanced studies. - Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program
The Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program places interns in federal government organizations to enable unemployed or under-employed young Canadians between the ages of 15 and 30 to acquire work experience and skills they need to enter and fully participate in the labour market. - Youth Employment Strategy - Summer Work Experience
The Summer Work Experience program creates summer employment opportunities for secondary and post-secondary students, and provides students with the opportunity to acquire skills, gain valuable work experience and help finance their return to school. - Youth Employment Strategy - Skills Link
The Skills Link program helps youth facing barriers obtain the knowledge and develop the broad range of skills and work experience they need to participate in the job market. - Legal Excellence Program
The Legal Excellence Program, which is offered in two phases, provides employment opportunities to law students, articling law students, and junior lawyers and notaries. - NRC Summer Employment Program
The National Research Council Canada (NRC) Summer Employment Program provides post-secondary students with practical work experience in research and development, library sciences, communications and marketing. - Student Connections
The Student Connections program hires college and university students as Student Business Advisors to assist small and medium-sized businesses by providing them with customized, hands-on electronic commerce and Internet training. - National Research Council Co-op Program
The National Research Council Co-op Program offers work terms to post-secondary students so that they can acquire practical and professional work experience. - Accent
The Accent program provides part-time, paid positions for language assistants in urban areas within a reasonable distance of the post-secondary institution they are attending. - Odyssey
The Odyssey program provides full-time, paid positions for language assistants in rural or semi-urban areas that are generally outside the assistants' province or territory of permanent residence.
Youth and Students can also receive:
- Employment Insurance Regular Benefits
Employment Insurance (EI) provides Regular Benefits to individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own (for example, due to shortage of work, seasonal or mass lay-offs) and are available for and able to work, but can't find a job. - Job Bank
Job Bank is an electronic listing of jobs provided by employers from everywhere across Canada. - Job Creation Partnerships
The Job Creation Partnerships (JCP) employment benefit is a program designed to support projects that will provide work experience for Employment Insurance recipients. - Targeted Wage Subsidies
The Targeted Wage Subsidies program assists Employment Insurance eligible individuals experiencing difficulty in finding work to benefit from on-the-job work experience. - Employment Insurance and Workers and/or Residents Outside Canada
The Employment Insurance (EI) program may provide benefits to certain individuals who reside outside Canada if their job is insured under Canada’s EI program.
See all Employment programs and services.
