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Global Potato News
Global Potato News strives to be the most compelling portal site for the potato industry world-wide. Registering on Global Potato News will give you access to members-only sections of the site, as well as the opportunity to sign up for potato related newsletters. The members-only sections include global industry trends, potato statistics, registered patents related [...]
Alberta WaterPortal
Alberta WaterPortal enables free and open source access for the sharing of information and knowledge on ground and surface water conditions, water management innovations, best practices, news and research, and conservation programs. Alberta WaterPortal was created by a group of organizations including Alberta WaterSmart.
Food Industry Training and Education Resource
The Food Industry Training and Education Resource is designed to profile human resources and skills development training initiatives available across Canada. The programs featured are offered by colleges, universities, councils, associations, and other institutes.
FAQ: Why is a particular company not listed on Soil to Sky?
It’s nothing personal. We’re working hard every day to add new content to Soil to Sky’s database. If a site you think is useful is not listed, please use the contact us form and let us know.
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.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Work/Life Balance: It’s a Matter of Time is a web page designed by the Canadian Mental Health Association that aims at finding out what you can do to make your work/life balance better.
Human Resources and Social Development Canada
he Work-Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces website has been created to help organizations design and implement supportive programs and policies facilitating work-life balance.
The Riley Guide
The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet.
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.
youth.gc.ca
The single access point for youth related information on the internet. You’ll find everything from government programs and services, to information on education, employment, travel, community events and much more.
Farm Business Advisor Manual
The Canadian Association of Farm Advisors (CAFA) has created a not-for-profit updateable manual designed primarily for professionals to assist farm families: the Farm Business Advisor Manual.
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.
Employers’ Handbook for Agriculture and Horticulture
The Employers’ Handbook for Agriculture and Horticulture can help you achieve sound human resource management practices which often result in increased productivity, reduced staff turnover, and satisfied employees and managers.
AgriWeb Canada
AgriWeb Canada is a national directory of Canadian agriculture and agri-food information resources available via the Internet.
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.
SalaryExpert.com
SalaryExpert.com is a leading provider of online salary data, serving individual employees, HR professionals, compensation specialists, managers, and Boards (both for-profit and not-for-profit).
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.
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.
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.
Canadian Farm Business Management Council, Farm Centre
Canadian Farm Business Management Council’s Farm Centre is an award-winning, trusted management resource for farm business owners and others in the agriculture industry.
Ropin’ The Web Portal
Ropin’ The Web Portal is Alberta Agriculture and Food’s world-renowned information network for agriculture and food in Alberta and the World.
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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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The Agriculture and Food Council of Alberta is a non-profit industry-led organization comprised of volunteer member representatives from across Alberta’s agri-food industry. The organization routinely partners with various groups and organizations within industry to bring about new projects, events, and initiatives to support agriculture and food in Alberta and Canada.
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The Farm Issues website site was designed to try and get the basic information about food and farming out in an easy to navigate way, with links to other sites with up to date and often technical information on a specific issue.
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