The Youth Online Employment Strategy (YOES) is an innovative pre-employment program designed by CultureLink to teach youth ages 15-29 how
to market themselves in today’s digital world. Starting in October 2016,
YOES has been offering school-based pre-employment training workshops to help
students prepare for today’s competitive job market. Through step-by-step
instruction, students in this program learn how to build a professional digital
profile by creating new-media based resumes and, how to leverage social media
tools in their job search.
Over the past few months, students in Greenwood Secondary
School’s Career Studies and Riverdale Collegiate Institute’s Co-op classes have
been putting their digital and creative skills to use to build creative
infographic resumes that showcase who they are beyond the bullets of their
traditional resumes. This has been a positive and fun experience for many
students and has helped them identify their strengths, skills and build their
confidence when speaking about their various work, volunteer and school
experiences.
Here is what some of the students had to say:
“The
most awesome thing about it was learning how to make an infographic resume and
seeing how it stands out more in bold and vivid colors, texts and pictures” – Co-op
student from Riverdale Collegiate
“I found that this workshop is helping me know more about
myself by working on an online resume and how to get a job” – Career Studies student from Greenwood
Secondary
“I am very glad we had the opportunity to take this
course. Thanks.” – Co-op student from
Riverdale Collegiate
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| Greenwood Secondary School students showing off their infographic resumes. |
In addition to in-class workshops, YOES is also offered
online. We will be relaunching our popular NextGen Resumes – Creative
Self-Marketing MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Canvas.net this coming March. Stay tuned for details. For more information about this
program and upcoming workshops, please contact Asal at aafshar@culturelink.ca or
416-588-6288x211.
