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Introduction

Industry Canada has full-time, part-time and casual workers in offices across the country, with a variety of career opportunities that require a wide range of different skills.

In choosing Industry Canada as your career choice, you will have an opportunity to use your knowledge and abilities in a constantly motivating and stimulating workplace.

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Benefits

In addition to generous rates of pay, we offer an excellent training ground.

Some of the advantages of working at Industry Canada include:

  • a wide variety of career choices;
  • the opportunity to deal with a variety of issues for the good of the Canadian public;
  • the opportunity for advancement;
  • learning and professional development;
  • flexible work arrangements;
  • benefits packages including dental, medical, retirement and others.

Your initiative and efforts will help shape Canada into a competitive nation, dedicated to the people it serves, and create a vibrant public service for the 21st century. A career in Industry Canada is worth considering.

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Workplace of Choice

For Industry Canada, being a workplace of choice means being an organization that:

  • is guided by the values of the Public Service;
  • invests in its people, providing challenging work and supporting on-going learning and professional development;
  • encourages creativity, innovation and intellectual freedom in the pursuit of an exciting agenda that contributes to the needs of Canadians;
  • supports employees in balancing work and personal lives through flexible work arrangements, streamlining processes and balancing workload with resources available;
  • shows respect, civility, fairness and caring towards its employees, and respects diversity in people, ideas and differences of view; and
  • shows leadership through participation, openness, communications, teamwork, recognition and rewards for results and accomplishments.
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Employment Equity Commitment

Industry Canada is committed to policies and practices which reflect all laws, regulations, and government commitments confirming and dealing with cultural diversity, including all laws prohibiting discrimination on any ground, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

Industry Canada is an organization that values diversity in the workforce. We encourage members of designated groups (persons with disabilities, Aboriginal peoples, members of a visible minority, women) to apply and to self-identify.

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Industry Canada Employment Opportunities Websites

As with many federal government departments, Industry Canada recruits most of its employees through general or specific programs administered by the Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission website contains the addresses of the PSC offices nearest you.

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) — Patent Examiner Recruitment
As part of CIPO's Patent Office, you will join a group of professionals with various unparalleled expertise. Your responsibilities will involve a wide range of activities aimed at serving Canadians with excellent intellectual property services.

Competition Bureau — Careers
The Competition Bureau offers challenging careers investigating cartels, fighting deceptive marketing practices, examining mergers and advocating the benefits of competition. University graduates in economics, law or business administration, who are looking for a full-time job, can apply to the Competition Bureau by registering with the Public Service Commission.

Measurement Canada — Information for Job Seekers
As an agency of Industry Canada, Measurement Canada is responsible for approving new measurement technology for use in the Canadian marketplace and for certifying the accuracy of scales, gasoline pumps, and electricity and natural gas meters and systems. The agency has various inspector and metrologist positions. Information on careers, the recruitment process, minimum qualifications, compensation and benefits as well as current job openings are listed on the website.

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Student and Internship Programs

Community Access Program — Youth Initiative
CAP's youth initiative aims to provide employment opportunities for young Canadians between the ages of 15 and 30 — primarily students, recent graduates, or the under-employed or unemployed.

Computers for Schools — Technical Work Experience Program (TWEP)
The Technical Work Experience Program (TWEP) hires students and recent graduates from college/university information technology programs. The Program provides young people with a minimum of 13 weeks — with the possibility of an additional 13 weeks extension — paid, practical, first job experience in Computers for Schools (CFS) repair centres throughout Canada.

Industry Canada's Communications Research Centre 'Research Affiliate Program'
As part of the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP), the Communications Research Centre (CRC) recruits students to work at their Shirley's Bay (Ottawa) location. The CRC generally conducts research in fields related to networks research, satellite communications, radio sciences, communications devices and components research, and television broadcast technologies.

Student Connections — Youth Employment
Student Connections, an Industry Canada initiative funded through the Youth Employment Strategy, hires and trains post-secondary students and recent graduates as Student Business Advisors (SBAs). These SBAs provide on-site customized Internet training, assessments, and e-commerce services to clients across Canada.

University Recruitment at Industry Canada
Interesting and challenging employment opportunities for postgraduate students to work as economists and commerce officers in the Industry and the Strategic Policy sectors.

Youth.gc.ca
A guide to Government of Canada programs and services for youth. Topics include work experiences opportunities, entrepreneurship, internships and more.

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Date Modified: 2007-09-21

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