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Agricultural Labour Pool
The Agricultural Labour Pool is a recruitment and job seeking assistance service for both employers and those seeking employment. The organization assists Canadian and U.S. agricultural employers with their human resource recruitment needs and helps people secure a career in agriculture.
Green Certificate Employment Directory
The Green Certificate Employment Directory is a free online service that will help employers reach trained and talented employees in a quick and easy way, and help job-seekers find the career they’ve been searching for.
iChooseCargill.com
At Cargill, our purpose is to be the global leader in nourishing people. And this includes our employees. To get us there, we’re continually expanding our business. In fact, we now serve a diverse customer base ranging from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, livestock producers to food manufacturers, and much more.
Eluta
Launched just over a year ago, Eluta.ca is already among Canada’s four most-visited job search sites (comScore), with nearly 500,000 unique visitors from Canada each month.
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.
The Riley Guide
The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet.
The Truth About Interviewing
The truth about interviewing is that most initial interviews only last about 5 minutes. Oh, sure, the actual interview always takes longer than that. 30 minutes. 45 minutes. Sometimes even an hour. But the interview is typically over in just 5 minutes.
Discover Yourself
This page has a personal inventory to help you understand what kind of things you may be looking for in a career.
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.
How to Write a Cover Letter
A good cover letter can encourage your prospective employer to consider your resume. Research the company you’re sending your cover letter to before writing your letter. Knowing about current needs and future plans will help you write a letter that shows what an asset you will be.
Indeed: One Search, All Jobs
Indeed includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages – and we continue to add new sites every day.
AlbertaFirst.com – Job Resources
AlbertaFirst.com is a provincial, municipal and industry partnership dedicated to the promotion of business and community development across the Province of Alberta.
E Jobs
E Jobs links to environmental opportunities in the USA and Canada. Employment includes careers such as environmental engineers, nature and wetlands scientists, GIS, technicians, chemists, earth sciences / geologists, policy and law, wildlife conservation, planning, education, wastewater treatment and operations, program and project management, natural resources, etc.
The Agricultural Institute of Canada: Careers
The Agricultural Institute of Canada has partnered with Workopolis NicheNetwork to provide a comprehensive job-networking tool. Please note that this site requires user registration to post or view job listings.
Workopolis.com
Perhaps one of Canada’s best known commerical job banks, Workopolis is a sprawling collection of job posts across a number of industries and locations.
Alberta’s STEP Program
This site is updated with information that can help people looking for work experience programs in Agri-Food summer jobs.
Government of Alberta, Employment Competitions
Government of Alberta | Employment Competitions lists current employment competitions for employment specifically with the Government of Alberta. Job listings include a click-able title with more information about the individual jobs, a location, a closing date, and a competition number. Applications can be made online, but be sure to follow the directions carefully.
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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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As Head of Research and Studies in the Business Research and Consulting Division of my company, my most common challenge is finding people who can come up with ingenius ideas but who also have the ability to apply knowledge.
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Our goal is to introduce plants that are productive, consistent, and thrive in the vast array of weather changes that is the climate of the prairies. We want nothing more than the success of our customers with their own patches of prairie – big or urban compact. Our continual education and experience as...
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