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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.
Statistics Canada Recruitment Program
The EC recruitment development program of Statistics Canada offers up to 35 permanent positions at Statistics Canada in Ottawa. The program provides a two-year training period for the recruit through two different work assignments, including one with the Census of Agriculture.
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.
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.
Central Alberta Career Prep
Central Alberta Career Prep is a career development initiative that involves Central Alberta school jurisdictions, colleges and business/industries. This initiative links relevant career development information with a well-rounded education to develop meaningful career transitions for youth in Central Alberta. The thrust of the initiative is to assist high school students with career information and encourage them to develop career action plans to better prepare them for post-secondary training and/or the world of work.
Canadian Food Industry Council
The Canadian Food Industry Council was incorporated in November 2003 and is a not for profit organization. Business, labour, and government representatives joined together with the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development to identify industry-wide challenges, and implement long-term solutions.
Careers In Grocery
Careers In Grocery is an information brochure by the Canadian Food Industry Council with information about careers in the grocery and retail side of agriculture and food.
How to Write a Resume
A resume provides an overview of your experience and skills. As such, it is an important tool in any job search. A resume cannot guarantee you a job offer, but a great resume will help you get an interview.
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.
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.
The Blueprint for Life
The Blueprint for Life/Work Designs enables you to make your career development intentional.
Food Product Development Specialist
A career as a Food Product Development Specialist requires a college diploma in Food Science or B.Sc. degree in Food Science or Biochemistry.
Careers in Food Processing
A rewarding career in the food processing industry may be just the challenge you are looking for. From managing the safety of a processing facility to developing new products, the processing side of agriculture and food helps keep the food we eat fresh, safe, and interesting.
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.
Dow AgroSciences Canada
Dow AgroSciences attributes their drive to a passion for helping growers and the value chain succeed with individual solutions, novel technologies, and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. Dow works within Canadian agriculture to enhance quality of life through innovation in responsible pest management, efficient production, seed and trait technology, and the use of renewable agriculture resources.
What is the Private Sector?
Our Industry Almanac strives to index the private sector of the agriculture and food industry in order to provide you with both a strong sense of its depth and function, but also to further your career research by examining the information as it is available directly from their websites.
Government of Canada | Training and Learning
Government of Canada | Training and Learning is a site established to help potential employees to explore their options for career related training. Use this site to discover adult learning options, methods for upgrading your skills, counselors, teachers, resources, and information on budgeting and paying for additional training.
Alberta Veterinary Medicine Association, Careers
Alberta Veterinary Medicine Association | Career Resources is the entry portal for Alberta Veterinary Medicine Association members looking to find career opportunities. This is an interesting site to explore the depth of opportunity that exists in this specific career field.
Alberta Pork: Career Opportunities
Alberta Pork, Career Opportunities is a career information and job posting site for careers in Alberta’s pork industry. “Alberta’s successful pork industry always requires both experienced managers and technicians as well as inexperienced people who wish to pursue a career caring for pigs.”
Government of Canada | Career Exploration
Government of Canada | Career Exploration contains basic information on exploring and researching career options. Users can use the tools to examine interests and opportunities that match skills and interests to exciting and interesting career choices.
Alberta Pork, Job Definitions
Alberta Pork, Job Definitions provides a standardized set of information about job categorization in the Alberta pork industry. These descriptions can help explain what kind of experience translates into a job here. Click the “Alberta Pork, Job Definitions” link above to download this information.
Government of Canada, Career Navigator
Government of Canada | Career Navigator requires an account and login, but provides personalized information on wages, number of jobs available and employment prospects to help people make informed career decisions.
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More Than You Think!
The agriculture and food industry has a lot more opportunity than you might have imagined including careers in production and processing, and also science, technology, and all sorts of management roles. Our Career Profiles directory is also packed with lots of useful information and features to help you find the right kind of career for you.
Maybe you are looking for a new career opportunity through training and education. Perhaps you're thinking about building your work skills and experience to improve your current career? Or, it could be that you looking for a new way to use the skills you already have to find the job you want?
We think we can help. Soil to Sky is your directory to web-based information about agriculture, food, and everything you might need to build a rewarding, balanced career in our industry.
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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Partners in Job Information
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!
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Government of Canada | Resume Builder requires an account and login, but walks visitors through the process of building a resume to meet the requirements for employment with the Federal Government.
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Horses & Horse Information has hundreds of equine articles that many horse owners, riders and breeders can enjoy reading as an information resource. New informative horse articles are being written on a regular basis by the most experienced horse professionals in the world.
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