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When our employees were asked through a confidential survey to characterize The Career Foundation, they chose these words:
- Caring
- Compassionate
- Family
- Results-oriented
- Innovative
- Professional
- Helpful/Accommodating
We are dedicated to helping our employees achieve their career goals. Many of our current staff members were once our clients! We’re very proud of this because we feel it attests to the dedicated team we have in place.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Career Foundation is committed to diversity and inclusion and aims to create a healthy and rewarding environment for all. We welcome applications from qualified individuals who represent the diversity of the people we proudly serve, including, but not limited to, visible minorities, women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and individuals of all genders and sexual orientation.
The Career Foundation, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), is also committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. We will work with candidates requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.
Career Opportunities
Join our team at The Career Foundation! You can view and apply to our current job postings below:
Conveniently located in Etobicoke, North York, Downtown Toronto, York, and Scarborough, The Career Foundation’s five (5) full-suite Employment Centres provide job seekers with a full range of services, including exploring career options, improving their résumés, preparing for interviews, and much more. Employers that share our commitment to community hiring can also receive a range of services, including direct access to job seekers of diverse backgrounds and skills, support with coordinating and hosting community hiring events to meet our job seeker clients, advice on how to best coach and work with their new hires to help achieve job retention, and more.
As the Quality Assurance and Training Specialist, you would be a vital member of the team, responsible for enhancing the service quality and compliance of The Career Foundation’s Integrated Employment Services programming for our full-suite Employment Centres. Some of your core responsibilities would be to ensure adherence to funder guidelines, contractual obligations, and industry standards while also leading training initiatives to enhance staff performance. As the Quality Assurance and Training Specialist, you would also be responsible for conducting detailed quality monitoring and implementing targeted training programs to address compliance gaps and enhance service delivery.
The Career Foundation’s ReSet program is designed to help income-support recipients prepare for and successfully transition into employment. This program consists of two phases. Phase one focuses on helping individuals recognize the barriers that prevent them from pursuing meaningful careers. Through employment readiness and life skills training and coaching, clients will develop a new outlook and a strong interest in pursuing employment. As a result of phase one, clients will successfully transition into the Integrated Employment Service. Phase two provides alumni support and coaching to ensure clients are equipped and motivated to strengthen their attachment to the labour market.
As the Career Exposure and Mentorship Specialist, you will be an essential member of the program team, responsible for creating opportunities with employers in a variety of industries to arrange career exposure, workplace tours, guest speaker events, and mentorship opportunities for clients of our ReSet program. You will also work directly with clients of the program to provide them with coaching and encourage them to apply the skills they have learned through the program to pursue their goals. You will have individual targets to meet, contributing to the team’s overall goal of achieving successful outcomes for our clients.
The Career Foundation’s ReSet program is designed to help income-support recipients prepare for and successfully transition into employment. This program consists of two phases. Phase one focuses on helping individuals recognize the barriers that prevent them from pursuing meaningful careers. Through employment readiness and life skills training and coaching, clients will develop a new outlook and a strong interest in pursuing employment. As a result of phase one, clients will successfully transition into the Integrated Employment Service. Phase two provides alumni support and coaching to ensure clients are equipped and motivated to strengthen their attachment to the labour market.
As a Facilitator/Employment Transition Coach, you will be an integral member of the program team, responsible for providing clients with inspirational group training on the value and impact that work can have on their professional, personal, and family lives. By facilitating engaging workshops and providing one-to-one coaching to clients, you will help them develop life skills and readiness to transition into active job search, which is the intended purpose of the ReSet program. You will also perform other important work, including community outreach to recruit new eligible participants and promote the ReSet program within the communities that we serve. You will have individual targets to meet, contributing to the team’s overall goal of achieving successful outcomes for our clients.
Conveniently located in Etobicoke, North York, Downtown Toronto, York, and Scarborough, The Career Foundation’s five (5) full-suite Employment Centres provide job seekers with a full range of services, including exploring career options, improving their résumés, preparing for interviews, arranging employment placements, providing job retention support and much more. Our Employment Centres also offer a range of services to employers, including recruitment support, candidate screening, job matching, hiring fairs, workplace orientation, retention advice, and other services.
As an Employer Services and Retention Specialist, you would be an essential member of our team, establishing and maintaining relationships with employers across multiple sectors. You would assess their workforce development needs, provide job coaching to our job seeker clients, and match them to employment opportunities that you develop through direct connections and the effective relationships you build with employers. You would also support employers in implementing training and onboarding plans, arrange workplace accommodations when required, and offer on-the-job coaching to the job seekers you place in those roles, helping ensure they retain their employment. You will have placement targets to meet, contributing to the team’s overall goals of achieving successful outcomes for our clients
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
As an Outreach Worker/Facilitator with our national Youth Thrive program, you would be an important member of the project team. Your responsibilities would include promoting civic engagement and volunteerism among youth and engaging them in the program. You would also work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth participants by providing life and volunteer readiness workshops, as well as individual and group-based coaching to help them understand the expectations and requirements of non-profit workplaces, preparing them for success in their volunteer placements. Additionally, you would be responsible for achieving individual outreach and training targets.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
As a Placement Specialist/Coach with our national Youth Thrive program, you would be an essential member of the team. Some of your responsibilities would include establishing and maintaining relationships with non-profit organizations in multiple sectors and developing meaningful volunteer opportunities for youth. You would also work directly with youth participants to help them understand the expectations and requirements of various non-profit workplaces and what it takes to be successful in their volunteer roles. You would have a caseload of youth and mentors assigned to you, as well as placement targets to achieve.
As an Employment Services and Placement Specialist, you would be an essential member of our team responsible for providing solution-based employment counselling to an assigned caseload of clients in the areas of job search, job placement, career decision-making, job retention, and other areas to support clients with achieving successful outcomes. You would also be responsible for developing relationships with employers to find suitable employment opportunities for clients in your caseload, among other essential duties, including maintaining accurate records in online data reporting systems.