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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:
Delivered in partnership with Sorenson Institute, The Career Foundation’s Bloom Forward project is a floral‑design employment and training social enterprise initiative that empowers women transitioning from shelters in Scarborough, Ontario, to achieve lasting economic independence. Participants will receive specialized training in floral design, employability, life skills, and customer service, co‑designed primarily around the insights of women with lived experience and further informed by floral‑industry partners, social‑enterprise advisors, and community agencies.
As the Social Enterprise Program Lead, you will lead the development and pilot delivery of the social enterprise to support women transitioning from shelters based in Scarborough into employment. Your responsibilities will include project coordination, market research, and feasibility analysis, as well as stakeholder and community engagement. You will oversee partnership development, curriculum and support design, participant recruitment and onboarding, and pilot implementation. You will also monitor outcomes, refine the model based on findings, and prepare documentation and reports to support scale‑up and investor engagement.
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 an Employment Services and Placement Specialist, you would be an essential member of our team, responsible for providing solution-focused employment counselling to an assigned caseload of clients in areas such as job search, job placement, career decision-making, job retention, and other supports to help clients achieve successful outcomes. You would also be responsible for developing relationships with employers to identify suitable employment opportunities for clients in your caseload, among other key duties, including maintaining accurate records in online data reporting systems. In this role, you would also have individual targets to achieve related to your caseload’s success.
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 30 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 based in Edmonton, Alberta, you will be a key member of the project team. Your responsibilities will include promoting civic engagement and volunteerism among youth, and actively engaging them in the program. You will work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth participants by delivering life and volunteer readiness workshops, as well as providing individual and group-based coaching. These efforts will help participants understand the expectations and requirements of non-profit workplaces, preparing them for success in their volunteer placements. You will have targets to achieve that contribute to the team’s collective ability to meet all contractual obligations with the program’s funder.
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 30 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.
This Outreach Worker/Facilitator position is part of our national Youth Thrive program based in British Columbia. In this role, you will be a key member of the project team, responsible for promoting civic engagement and volunteerism among youth and for engaging youth directly in the program through active outreach in diverse communities across the province. You will also work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth by delivering life‑skills and volunteer‑readiness workshops, as well as providing both individual and group‑based coaching. Through these activities, you will help youth participants understand the expectations and requirements of non‑profit workplaces, preparing them for success in their volunteer placements. You will also be responsible for meeting individual targets assigned to you, which contribute to the team’s overall ability to fulfill all contractual obligations with the program’s funder.