by Stacy Dunn, Employment Journey Researcher
The job search is a lot like growing crops. Your ideas of what you want in a job or career are like the seeds. As the seeds make contact with the ground, rain and sun, your ideas make contact with people, newspapers and other job search resources. This help leads to successful growth.
At The Employment Journey , we are like the almanac of facts and figures to help you find out more about job prospects now and in the future.
The job climate on PEI is good at this time of year. The articles below will help you decide how to plough through the field of job searching or career planning. Feel free to contact us with your comments at employ@pei.aibn.com .
Third Edition of the Career Profile Handbook is now available
You can find PEI-based job information about more than 130 careers in the third edition of the Career Profile Handbook . Please see The Employment Journey homepage for a direct link. The new booklet now has more information on jobs available in the health care sector.
For more about the Career Profile Handbook, go to: http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/getrelease.php3?number=6553
Canada’s Smartest Kitchen
Holland College’s Culinary Institute of Canada and Cavendish Farms recently announced the official opening of Canada’s Smartest Kitchen. The facility will work with chefs, scientists and the food processing industry to cater to Canadians’ changing tastes in the processed food market. Canadians purchase more than $60 billion annually in processed food. The Holland College Tourism and Culinary Centre will also house The Cavendish Farms Culinary Creation Centre. Its sole purpose is researching, developing and testing products for the company’s food line. For more information, go to: http://www.hollandcollege.com/applied_r ... itchen.php
The Business of Vet Medicine Conference
Over 100 animal health and nutrition companies descended on Charlottetown in October for VetHealth Global 2009 – The Animal Health & Nutrition Business Conference. PEI BioAlliance and Invest PEI hosted the second annual conference. It was an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the PEI Bioscience Cluster’s growing business and research capabilities in veterinary health and nutrition products.See what the conference is all about at www.vethealthglobal.com/about.php.
Visit the PEI BioAlliance website www.peibioallance.com for news and upcoming events in PEI’s Bioscience sector.
PEI lab developing new cholesterol-reducing technology
Researchers at the National Research Council Institute of Nutrisciences and Health in Charlottetown are helping to lower bad cholesterol levels by combining natural botanical extracts. This original idea may make it easier for Canadians to manage obesity, diabetes, and high fat levels in the blood. Vancouver-based Omnia Foods Ltd. has acquired the North American rights to this technology. The NRC-INH provides a space for companies, government, and universities to network, invest and bring innovative technologies to market. This is an example of how the research work done right here on PEI can affect the world.
Learn more about it at www.peibioalliance.com/files/20090925_NRC-INH_Omnia.pdf
Summerside welcomes new IT company
Global IT company Millennium Care has come to Summerside. People are currently being recruited for 30 positions at the Summerside office. Successful candidates will be trained to deliver support to the company’s clients in 80 countries. The company has been successful in building teams that resolve and manage IT issues using state-of-the-art software and facilities.
Read more about Millennium Care at
www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6548&lang=
Innovation and Advanced Learning Minister Alan Campbell, centre, chats with Perry Marshall, right, president of Millennium Care Inc. and Rudy Smith, president of the Greater Summerside Chamber of Commerce.
Contact centre will bring jobs to Bedeque
It was announced in September that Virtual Agent Services will set up a location in Central Bedeque. As many as 50 new jobs could be created. This in-bound contact centre provides services for the telecommunications, tourism, accommodations, and retail sector.
Find out more about Virtual Agent Services at www.vagent.com
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Early Childhood Educators get accelerated training
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is addressing the growing shortage of early childhood educators by offering an accelerated training program. Holland College centres in Summerside and Charlottetown and Collège Acadie in Wellington will offer a one-year diploma program to current non-certified staff in licensed early childhood centre. The new program offers an opportunity to finish the program in one year rather than two, and will provide tuition through funding by SkillsPEI Minister Greenan said the new program will help to address the growing shortage of early childhood educators that is occurring on PEI and across the country. For more on this story, visit
http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?nu ... amp;lang=E
John J. Sark Memorial Scholarship announced
Aboriginal students attending UPEI can now apply for the John J. Sark Memorial Scholarship. Islander John James Sark earned a post-secondary education at UPEI’s predecessor St. Dunstan’s College and was PEI’s first Mi’kmaq teacher.
Three scholarships of $1,000 each will be awarded to students enrolled in a full-time undergraduate studies program. For more information, go to
[url=http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6547&lang=E]www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6547&lang=E[/url]
Minister of Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour, Carolyn Bertram, left, UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan and Amanda Malley a Member of the UPEI Aboriginal Student Association, look over the guidelines for the new John J. Sark Memorial Scholarships.
Red meat sector announces working group
The PEI Agriculture Department and its federal counterpart are setting up a working group with red meat industry representatives to discuss program options for the present and future. They will also talk about how to use the new Agriculture Flexibility Fund. For more information, go to www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6588&lang=E
Rural Development Strategy wants your say
The Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development is taking its rural development strategy on-line. Islanders are encouraged to fill on an on-line survey at www3.gov.pe.ca/survey/index.php?sid=66958&lang=en .
The survey is part of the department’s ongoing efforts this year to consult with individuals and groups who work and live in rural PEI. Learn more about the rural development strategy at:
http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?nu ... amp;lang=E
Firefighters look to more space, training and personnel
Attendants to the recent Fire Fighters Association’s Annual Meeting and Trade Show learned that the PEI government is giving $150,000 towards training. The money, which comes from the Island Community Fund, will make improvements to their apparatus building to house fire trucks and to serve as a training facility for fire fighters and hazardous materials response team. Read more about it at
www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6584&lang=E
Back in September, volunteer firefighters from Charlottetown, North River and Crossroads climbed to the roof of the Atlantic Technology Centre in downtown Charlottetown for Heroes in the Sky. It was a national initiative to raise awareness of the need for more volunteer firefighters and to raise money. Learn more about it at
www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=276077&sc=98
Tignish restoring Post Office
Tignish Initiatives Corporation is restoring the Tignish Post Office, a designated heritage site. The non-profit community development agency, with funding help from the federal and PEI governments, will take over the 98-year-old post office in an effort to boost Tignish’s economy.
For more information on the plans for the post office, see
www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6545&lang=E
Wind Energy in Kensington
The Town of Kensington is getting into the renewable energy sector by installing a wind turbine for the local wastewater treatment plant. It’s the first of its kind in Canada and officials from the three levels of government say this initiative places Kensington at the hub of alternative energy education. Learn more about Kensington’s wind energy plans at
www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6546&lang=E
New building, new site for Maplewood Manor
The Department of Health is moving up plans to build a new Maplewood Manor in Alberton on the property of the existing manor. Slated to begin construction in 2013, the manor will undergo a replacement plan in the coming months to address much-needed upgrades. Maplewood Manor is part of government’s Healthy Aging Strategy that is looking to improve services to seniors on PEI. Read more about it at
www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6560&lang=E
Workplace literacy is a priority
In September, the Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training released a report on childhood and adult literacy. Regarding workplace literacy, the council wants to increase awareness of the essential skills for learning, to eliminate any barriers learners have and to improve quality standards and guidelines for learners and adult literacy teachers Read the report at http://camet-camef.ca/images/eng/docs/L ... arning.pdf .
PEI population boom
Statistics Canada says PEI’s population grew by 739 people, or .53 percent this past spring. Newcomers from overseas explains the sharp increase. PEI has outpaced the other Atlantic Canadian provinces this year in population. The number of people on PEI is 140,985. To compare our numbers to the rest of Canada, go to:http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidie ... 9b-eng.htm
The library is praised as a great job resource
Did you know that October is Canadian Library Month? To celebrate, Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour Minister Carolyn Bertram praised the PEI public library system for providing Islanders with job resources and literacy and computer skills. She said libraries are helping people find jobs. Read more about it at www.gov.pe.ca/news/getrelease.php3?number=6579 . To find a library in our area, click http://www.gov.pe.ca/cca/index.php3?num ... amp;lang=E
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