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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.
Canuck Careers
CanuckCareers.com is a leading career portal for Canadian professionals to find exciting new career opportunities and resources.
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.
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Think of Soil to Sky not as a job bank, but instead like your own personal web career councilor. And if this site has already helped you figure out what you might want to do, now is the time to dig a little deeper into our directory.
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.
ECO Canada (Enviromental Careers Organization)
ECO Canada develops programs that meet both the demand of employers (recruitment and retention tools and human resource materials) and facilitates the supply of labour by providing practitioners and students with career resources, internships, and certification.
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.
Production Supervisor
Every good team needs a great coach. Among other things, Production Supervisors generally supervise, co-ordinate and schedule the activities of workers who harvest, fabricate, process and package meat.
Food Technologists
Food technologists develop new, and improve existing, food products and set standards for producing, packaging and marketing food.
Sausage Maker
In addition to actually making sausages, a Sausage Maker often uses his or her creativity to formulate new and appetizing sausage products. A Sausage Maker understands and manages the entire process of creating further processed meat products, including operating and adjusting equipment, troubleshooting, contributing to product development and managing people.
Value-Added Meat Processors
Value-Added Meat Processors use their skills to create meat products that go above and beyond basic meat cuts. They work with their hands and with machines to create meat products found behind the deli counter and on the shelves of retail establishments large and small. Following stringent food and personal safety guidelines, this job requires the use of many meat processing machines and job duties.
Animal Harvester
Animal harvesters are a vital link in the meat processing chain. Working in meat processing plants, animal harvesters use stunning devices and knives to prepare animals for processing. These workers also use knives to remove hides, inedible parts and other non-essential animal parts; and may harvest cattle, and other animals as prescribed by religious practices.
Canadian Meat Specialists
The Canadian Meat Specialists career and industry information resource website lists opportunities. Use this website to find your future in the meat industry using information on careers, training and the industry itself.
National Seafood Sector Council
The National Seafood Sector Council (NSSC) assists food and seafood processing companies both large and small, and their workers, from coast to coast, with training, skills upgrading and more. This website is a human resource tool for food processors, manufacturers, employees, educational stakeholders, and anybody that would like to learn more about the Canadian food processing industry, and related human resource tools and training resources.
University of Alberta, Career and Placement Services
Career and Placement Services (CaPS) is a University of Alberta student service that offers services and resources to both employees and employers. CAPS is the link between those looking for work and those looking to hire the best and brightest.
Careers @ the U of A
For information on exciting opportunities and chances to develop your career in one of Canada’s top research universities, visit the University of Alberta’s Career page.
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.
National Occupational Classification
The NOC 2001 Web site contains the classification structure and descriptions of 520 occupational unit groups and includes over 30,000 occupational titles. It also features an intuitive search engine to help you find the information you need. An online training tutorial is available to assist new users and NOC trainers.
Product Developer
A Product Developer takes a good idea and makes it reality. Product Developers are part of a team that analyzes market trends, identifies a need and develops products to meet those needs. Join Soil to Sky as we interview Mark Farthing, Product Developer at Saxby Foods, about his job.
This profile was developed and adapted by Soil to Sky (2006) in partnership with [Alberta Food Processors Association->http://www.soiltosky.ca/?p=36].
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.
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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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Located in the heart of central Alberta, Ellis Bird Farm is both a working farm as well as a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of Mountain Bluebirds, Tree Swallows and other native cavity-nesting birds.
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The primary goal of PCCC is to study and respond to the human resources needs within the multi-faceted Canadian packaging field. The industry comprises both the users of packaging — industries such as food, beverage, hardware and pharmaceuticals — and the suppliers of packaging products and technology — metal, glass, plastics and paper container manufacturers...
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