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Some of our CAREERS' team members were lucky enough to be invited onto the Blue is the New White podcast hosted by Josh Zolin. Josh is the CEO of Windy City Equipment and author of Blue is the New White. Make sure to check out the CAREERS episodes: April 2nd and April 30th. You don't want to miss them.

What a great story. Thanks for being a role model for young women everywhere Brianne!

Check out the efforts and collaboration that EPCOR Canada is putting forward to better understand how they can respect Indigenous land while working. https://www.epcor.com//who/Pages/indigenous-relations.aspx

Congratulations to EllisDon Corporation! We are proud to call you a CAREERS partner.

Exciting opportunity for our 18-25 year old friends in the Wood Buffalo region! In less than 4 weeks, you could be starting your career in scaffolding. Reach out to Eric at [email protected] to get started.

Some great advice from our partners over at Ledcor Careers. When looking for a job, one thing to keep an eye out for is company values that align with your own.

Tune in to day 2 of Skills Exploration Days! We have more eager students from across the province ready to put their new skills and new tools to use building their prototypes.

Some of CAREERS' former ICT camp students are hosting Fort McMurray's first ever Hackathon! YouthComputing has one last workshop this weekend before the event on November 28th-29th. The event is online, free and a great way to see where the ICT world can take you!

Hey Students! Join SOUTHLAND Transportation/ Pacific Western Group of Companies, Enerflex Ltd., and Legacy Fire Protection Inc for the CAREERS Information Communications Technology launch! The possibilities are endless in ICT. Find out where this path could lead! This virtual event is tomorrow at 6 p.m. and is completely free to attend! Register here: https://www.careersnextgen.ca/virtual/

Safety is top of mind for CAREERS, and should be for everyone! With winter fully here make sure that, if you have a vehicle, it is in good running order for your internships and trips to school!

Our team is so thankful to be apart of your community and try to give back when we can! Our Fort McMurray team made a trip to rural communities to show some love and drop off some goodies, while the team in Calgary collected donations for the Veterans Association Food Bank.

A sense of community might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the trades but this Electrical Contractors Association of Alberta highlighting two member contractors displays that community. Take a look and see what pursing this line of work can offer you. If you are a student and want to get your start in the industry, contact CAREERS.

Information and Communications Technology is such a broad area that every company benefits from the growth of it. Making sure you have an adaptable youthful workforce able to take on the changes in your industry is vital to a company's longevity. Start today by hiring on a student intern through CAREERS. We screen candidates to ensure they are the right fit for your needs. Reach out to learn how an ICT intern can help you meet your workforce goals.

Next week, NAIT will be hosting quite an amazing panel of trades professionals! They will be sharing what inspired them to pursue a dual ticket and how it's changed their life for the better. They’ll also share helpful career advice for those getting started in the trades. There are many paths to consider with the trades and these panelists show just how limitless your future can be! Make sure to register. :)

It's National Forest Week everybody! Alberta owns some of the most beautiful and sustainable forests in the world. Learn more about this amazing industry and all the different careers opportunities it offers with Work Wild's "Forestry Myth or Fact Contest." Like what you see? Get paid and earn credits with a forestry internship! Message CAREERS to learn more.

Hey Students! Tomorrow is the first Virtual Showcase! Make sure to register for the Steamfitter/Pipefitter session. If you aren't sure what you want your future to be, this is an easy and free way to learn about different paths. You will hear from PCL Construction, Worley Cord, MasTec Canada, AIT, and even a RAP student in the trade! You will get insight from Superintendents, Business Development Directors to Formans and Apprentices! Register here: https://www.careersnextgen.ca/virtual/

The CAREERS team is growing! Ry Monkman is our newest Program Coordinator. He is a long time supporter of CAREERS; In fact, he started out as a RAP student himself! He says CAREERS not only helped him achieve his red seal in auto body but also break his family out of poverty. His journey from student to ambassador to team member makes him an unique addition and extremely passionate about what CAREERS does. Keep an eye out for him at local Edmonton businesses, hoping to find opportunities to give students the same chance he had. Welcome Ry!

High school students! Looking for an internship? Opportunity is knocking. Open the door to a career in construction. Connect with us to get started. Visit http://opportunity-knocks.ca for more. #OpportunityKnocks

CAREERS staff are heading back out into the community but always have safety in mind! Here are two Edmonton program coordinators off to chat with an employer about future internships.

Fort McMurray First Nation #468 summer students were lucky enough to learn about potential career paths at Syncrude Canada Ltd and how valuable education, hard work and the right attitude is towards finding your future! Check out the students making some Soil Sammys, which are both educational and adorable.

Only five days left!! We are so sad we didn't get to see your smiling faces out on the golf course this year for The Eric Newell Kidz in Careers Golf Classic but that doesn't mean you still can't invest in CAREERS and Alberta's youth. By donating through Shaw Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink before August 30th, YOUR DONATION WILL BE MATCHED BY UP TO 50%! The program was created under the Calgary Shaw Charity Golf Classic to benefit a number of charities across Albert...a, including CAREERS. Although the Shaw Charity Golf Classic has also been cancelled this year, Shaw Communications has committed $1 million to match Bird for Kids donations. With the loss of our biggest fundraiser of the year, your support will go a long way towards helping us provide career awareness, exploration, and experience for Alberta youth. https://www.careersnextgen.ca/birdies-for-kids/

There are a few more weeks left! #ChipinforKids to help us enable youth on their pathways to success! Text KIDS057 to 30333 to donate $10, and Shaw will match your donation to help support youth in Alberta. Shaw Charity Classic

Thank you so much to our partners who didn't let COVID-19 stop them from providing engaging sessions for our Health Sciences CAREERS Academy.

Our Health Sciences CAREERS Academy is off to a great start! Thanks to all the students who have joined us for our first welcome session and a huge thank you to our special guest Albertas Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw for speaking to Alberta's future healthcare workers! #careersconnects

Hey high school students! Look toward CAREERS as a resource, we reach government, students, parents, teachers and the business community. Let us all work together to build a bigger and better future for Alberta. Open the door to a stable and secure career: a career in construction. Check out opportunity-knocks.ca for more information. #opportunityknocks

Apprentices are getting some support to continue their learning.

Chip in for Kids today by texting KIDS057 to 30333 and help us support career exploration for youth! Shaw will match your donation and the matched donation will then be matched again by the Shaw Charity Classic, up to an additional 50%. Your $10 can grow into a donation of $30 to CAREERS! #ChipinforKids Want to make a larger gift? Please visit the Birdies for Kids web portal: https://www.careersnextgen.ca/birdies-for-kids/

Our Summer Students got the opportunity to learn from CAREERS: The Next Generation thanks to Suncor Energy

In case you missed it in our newsletter, here are the highlights of the donation drive we held for the Fort McMurray community! Keep up to date with all that CAREERS does by subscribing to the CAREERS Connector! https://www.careersnextgen.ca/subscribe/

This coming Sunday is an important day for the CAREERS family. June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day and is significant for Indigenous Canadians and Non-Indigenous Canadians alike. It is a day of recognition for the rich culture and immense contributions to society that First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples have made. It is vital that we continue to celebrate Canadas diversity and provide career exploration opportunities for all youth. Check out CAREERS Indigenous Y...outh Career Pathways Program to find out how you can get involved today. Make sure to keep an eye out for this summer's Indigenous student career coaches. Jonan Hatt (Central Alberta), Jack Bartlett (Northern Alberta) and Chevie-Lee Mitchell (Southern Alberta) will be working in communities across the province as mentors, providing youth with skills and knowledge to be successful in the work place. Stay tuned for some amazing success stories! While we may not be able to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day together, here are some ways you can celebrate virtually! https://www.ictinc.ca//11-ways-to-virtually-celebrate-nati

https://canada.constructconnect.com//industry-perspectives

Thank you all for your patience and understanding. We are thrilled so many of you want to join us virtually! Registration for the online 2020 Health Sciences CAREERS Academy is now up and running.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The high volume of Health Academy registrants has caused the CAREERS website to crash. We are working to fix the problem and should have things back up and running shortly. Please stay off the site until then and monitor social media for updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Recently, two of our Calgary team members were lucky enough to be featured in a magazine! Check out how important it is to support Alberta's youth and how CAREERS and RAP can help with business success while shaping future career paths. http://www.mirabelsmagazinecentral.com/DigitalE/index.html

The The Eric Newell Kidz in Careers Golf Classic" may be cancelled, but there's another way you can use the game to make your support go further. By donating through a program called Shaw Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink before August 30th, YOUR DONATION WILL BE MATCHED BY UP TO 50%! The program was created under the Calgary Shaw Charity Golf Classic to benefit a number of charities across Alberta, including CAREERS. Although the Shaw Charity Golf Classic has also be...en cancelled due to health precautions, Shaw Communications has committed $1 million to match Bird for Kids donations. With the loss of our biggest fundraiser of the year, your support will go a long way towards helping us provide career awareness, exploration, and experience for Alberta youth. https://www.careersnextgen.ca/birdies-for-kids/

Congratulations to one of our partners, Inside Education, on this award for providing environmental leadership to high school students. It is very well deserved.

Tonight is the night! Make sure to tune in at 6:30 P.M. to Skills Canada Alberta's award ceremony for their virtual competitions. https://skillsalberta.com/

This partnership allows CAREERS to offer more opportunities to students looking to explore their future career! We couldn't be happier to be aligned with them.

WATCH: At this time last year, a team of our Industrial Insulators competed at Skills Canada Alberta, showcasing our unique training program in conjunction with... CAREERS: The Next Generation. Learn more about current opportunities for Industrial Insulators and a variety of other industrial roles in our Career Centre: https://bit.ly/2hAah4Y. #stuartolsoncreates See more

Thank you. Thanks to the community's efforts CAREERS donated nearly 3000 pounds of supplies and just over $4900 dollars to the Wood Buffalo Food Bank. To all those that came out to drop off food, including CAREERS board members, and to those who gave money, we truly appreciate the support shown for our province. After the donation was made, a few team CAREERS team members spent the afternoon sorting through and making food hampers with all the donations from our community!

The CAREERS donation drive is on and we have already gotten our first donations! We hope to see you today - donations are being accepted from 2-6pm at 18256 - 102 ave.

We asked some of our partners across the province, what they are doing to keep moving forward during a time when almost everything has come to a halt. Overwhelmingly, they spoke about the strength of Albertans. #albertastrong https://vimeo.com/415267720

CAREERS is a not-for-profit organization that relies on industry and personal donations. Thanks to the generosity of co-founder Eric Newell and his family, along with CAREERS board members, you can now make your Giving Tuesday contribution this go even further! Go to: https://www.careersnextgen.ca/donate/

What: CAREERS Donation Drive When: Wednesday, May 6, from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Where: CAREERS parking lot - 18256 102 Ave. NW Flood waters in Fort McMurray have led to the evacuation of over 15,000 people and put tremendous pressure on the food bank to keep up with demands. ... In an effort to provide relief, CAREERS will be filling a trailer with food and supplies and delivering it to the region this Thursday. TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Simply drop off items outside your car and they will be moved by volunteers to the awaiting transport. Let's rally together and show our support! Items in need: Adult Diapers Brushes/Combs Can Openers Canned fruit Canned Veggies Cereal/Oatmeal/Breakfast supplies Shampoo/Conditioner Deodorant Diapers Feminine Products Formula Garbage Bags s Fruit Cups/Apple Sauce Kids Toothbrushes (high demand) Juice Pet Food Pasta/Sauce Condiments (Mustard, Ketchup, Peanut Butter, Cheeze Whiz) Toothpaste Toilet Paper Tuna/Chicken/Salmon Water Wipes Ziplock Bags.

Skills Canada Alberta has taken their competition virtual and secondary students can now register! Check out all the areas you can show off your skills. https://skillsalberta.com/skills-alberta-virtual-comp

If you are curious about all the different careers in the forestry industry, here is a fun game to enjoy!

It is #EducationWeek which is all the more reason to give a huge shout out to Alberta families, students and especially teachers and educational partners who have quickly adapted to ensure that even though it's at a distance, students are still learning. Thank you.

Say hello to Stephanie Jones(green jacket)! She is our Calgary Fund Development Manager and more recently has become our from home fitness motivator! How you are keeping busy? By getting up at my normal time every day (5:15am!) to do a workout with some gym friends on Zoom at 6am. This keeps me accountable to a consistent schedule, wakes my brain and body up for a day of isolated computer work, and gives me some much-needed social interaction so I always start the day in a go...od mood! Why be a CAREERS Teammate? I have worked in the not-for-profit sector for most of my professional career, always having been drawn to the great people, fun environment, and feel-good reward of doing something that helps to make the world a better place. At CAREERS, I work with our industry partners and donors to help them bring young local talent into their workforces, contribute to their communities, and play leadership roles in their respective industries. Fun Fact: In the span of three weeks I went from having zero at-home gym equipment to getting rid of my kitchen table and couch, laying down rubber flooring, and turning my kitchen/living room into a functional gym, complete with a pull-up bar and spin bike! #priorities Or anything else you would like to add! It`s a good thing I`ve invested in a home-gym and regular workout schedule, as I`ve also picked up the practice of (sourdough) bread-making, and after a week of making pizza dough, cookies, pancakes, artisan loaves, and dinner rolls, my bread intake has increased by roughly 1000%.

Check out some touching stories that Program Coordinator, Ernie Grach, has experienced over his years at CAREERS. He shared some of the sights he has seen while working from home. While we might not have a picture of him, he is nearly dead centre in our team picture from last year! "I have already sent out an email to my schools and our NW team meeting I will be discussing some strategies with my fellow teammates. SoI am working on two and possibly three student placements.... This COVID thing is somewhat of a barrier. As far as staying healthy is concerned, I have been riding my bike indoors practicing for the ride to conquer cancer. Unfortunately, it has been postponed till the summer of 2021. I keep practicing though! I take my dogs for a quad ride every day They run for about an hour, chase deer, varmints and ravens. Its funny to see the latter. The ravens seem to know when the dogs are coming and literally dive bomb them. Then they fly away at about waist height just out of the dogs reach. Its quite comical to see. I feed birds and watching them is like watching a ballet. They peck at the seeds until our neighbourhood squirrel chases them away. Then the magpies fly at the squirrel until the ravens comeand so it goes. All while a large chicken sits under the feeders, oblivious, and chows down. The chickadees have become so tame, if I stand still with seeds in my hand, they land on my fingers and eat the seeds. The favourite part of my job is working with the schools and presenting to the kids. But I also enjoy working with employers quite a bit. I love working with Indigenous kids the most. One of my employers has a shop foreman who was a RAP kid, his Heavy Equipment Technician, now a Red Seal Mechanic also came up through RAP and this year, they hired another RAP student as an apprentice HET. All Indigenous First Nation students and all from Mistassiniy School. Other note in a similar line, Eagle Willier was a forestry intern at Buchanan Lumber in High Prairie. When I tried to place her, I was summoned to her home by her father. He interrogated me for about two hours just making sure nothing untoward was going to happen to his daughter. His wife had died years earlier and he was the single father of six kids all girls. She went on to University and got a degree in Environmental Science, worked for ATCO for some time, then the University of Alberta as a Native Liaison and now she is in charge of youth initiatives for TSAG and specializes in Source Water Presentations, amongst other things. I met her again in September at a career fair held in Wabasca. She had never seen the completed version of the Indigenous video so I played it for her. We had a good laugh. She stated emphatically that her internship through CAREERS made a huge difference in her life."

What a friendly face! Dale is also one of our newer teammates and we are so happy to have him! Here is a little about him: Hello!... My name is Dale Tiedemann and I am the new CAREERS Program Coordinator for the Grande Prairie and Area. I joined CAREERS in January of this year and have been working to engage with students, employers and schools throughout the Northwest. In my past work life, Ive been fortunate to explore opportunities over a wide range of career pathways, including: media, government, non-profit, community/youth engagement and the public sector. One of my strengths and passions is building relationships and linking people with opportunities to work together. I am thrilled to be a part of the CAREERS Team and serve communities throughout the Peace Region! #CAREERSconnects

Our Calgary Team Lead, Dan Olesen, has been keeping very busy! He and his kids built this amazing igloo box fort! Now, the kids were SUPER excited to brave a whole night inside of it...How did they prepare? Check out Dan's interview with them pre-campout! #stayhome #CAREERSconnects "One of the best parts of my job, is sharing the great advice Ive learned from our employer partners combined with few of the life lessons of my own. I was once told that there are two ways of ...learning life lessons. One is the hard way and the second is the harder way. At times, life is hard and I readily admit that most of my life lessons I had to learn the harder way. When I try and do things, I am often experimenting along the way. It means I make mistakes. It is a good thing because trial and error is a great way to learn. I hope that the energy, conviction, and my real examples I add to CAREERS messaging resonate with the students participating. This weekend, we built a dome fort with cardboard triangles, glue, and duct tape -complete with lights. It took two days (mostly because we measured one triangle wrong). It was hard project to begin with and it was harder than it had to be, because we didnt measure twice, cut once. We learned a lot about box fort building. We are looking forward to the next (even bigger) fort. Too bad these hours will not count towards our apprenticeship. " -Dan Olesen See more

Social distancing wasn't enough to stop the release of this month's CAREERS Connector. Check out our April edition... including information about the newly launched CAREERS Google Classroom! https://conta.cc/3eamhXo