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Statistics Canada: Agriculture Division
Erik Dorff is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and an employee working in the Census of Agriculture of Statistics Canada. He has been with Statistics Canada for eight years. In this interview, he discusses some of the details of his job.
Job Profiles.org
Job Profiles.org contains descriptions of potential careers in a variety of industries, including some very interesting career profiles in the agriculture and environment industries.
Mazemaster
Mazemaster is a youth employment website. Though it is geared towards job seekers in the Toronto area, the site also provides plenty of free information for registered all job or career seekers including self-assessment tests, job search techniques, and much more.
Youth Info Fairs
The Youth Info Fairs site is all about helping youth between 15 and 30 years of age. Whether you need a hand finding a job or would like to start your own business, it’s all here at your fingertips on Youth.gc.ca!
Job Voyager
For an overview of jobs in the last 150 years of American history, visit Flare’s interactive chart.
NextSteps.org
NextSteps.org is a Calgary-based youth employment and resource website that contains career profiles, job postings, and plenty of self assessment tools. NextSteps.org is a great way to find out what interests you and how you can apply it to your future career. If you’re looking for further resources in the Canadian job market, NextSteps.org is your source for information on careers from Aquatic Biologist to Zookeeper and everything in between.
How to Use Google to Find a Job
Despite the wealth of resources to search for jobs, it’s still difficult to find meaningful information about companies and the jobs that they offer. Surprisingly, there is a tool that you likely use every day that is also one of the best job search resources in the world.
Schoolfinder.com
Schoolfinder.com features over 1,700 listings of post-secondary schools, hundreds of career profiles, the 3-Step Career Quiz — and Canada’s most comprehensive searchable scholarship database featuring over 60,000 scholarships awards and bursaries.
FarmChoices
FarmChoices is a website designed for Canadian farm families and farm workers for career and business planning and contains a rich library of information on business planning, gaining academic credit for what you have learned outside of the formal schooling system and on job searching.
Canada Career Consortium
The Canadian Career Consortium (CCC) envisions a country where Canadians can address their transition needs through a coordinated career and labour market information system. CCC, as a national forum, initiates, develops and co-ordinates career and labour market information to enable all Canadians to make transitions.
Employability Skills 2000+
Employability Skills 2000+ are the critical skills you need in the workplace — whether you are self-employed or working for others.
The Blueprint for Life
The Blueprint for Life/Work Designs enables you to make your career development intentional.
Career Owl
Career Owl is a on-line initiative assisting the transition from the educational to the working environment. This site provides a career marketplace in which talents, skills, and aptitudes can be appropriately matched with employment opportunities.
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What are sub-categories? All the information in Soil to Sky is grouped into a categorized directory of information. You can find what you are looking for by digging deeper into this directory, exploring sub-categories that contain more and more specific information. To go back, each sub-category listing has a "breadcrumb" that can be found under the blue "Category Listing" bar. Click any of these to back up one or more levels of the directory. Can you answer just ten questions?
Soil to Sky has launched The Ten Questions Project, a wide-reaching survey for folks with jobs in the agriculture and food industry. Even if you don't think you have the most exciting career going, someone wants to know what you do every day -- its the information our users crave as they plan their own career paths. Click on the link and take a few minutes to tell us about your career. Somebody will be glad you did!
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Right now other great websites are helping you find careers in industries supporting the agriculture and food industry. Not sure if we're exactly what you're looking for? Why not visit one of our partner sites.
ECO Canada has Canada's Largest Environmental Job Board with hundreds of employers posting new environmental career opportunities every day -- and many of those are directly related to agriculture and food production!
Random Listings
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Livestock Identification Services Ltd facilitates branding of lifestock. Their employment opportunities page is updated regularly and contains positions across Canada.
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Duties include making sure that the propagation needs of the nursery are met, providing plugs and liners to businesses, propagating and marketing perennials. Individuals will execute all aspects of the propagation division including growth, innovation within the industry, monitoring sales and marketing, supervising related work crews, and farm business management.
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