What is Soil to Sky?
Thanks for visiting and using Soil to Sky, your portal for careers in the Canadian agriculture and food industry. We’re here to provide you with a one-stop, free and unbiased career-hunting resource. This site has many features (new and old) and is designed to help you:
- better understand the agriculture and food industry in Alberta and Canada by linking you with a managed directory of information resources available on the web;
- plan your education by connecting you with agriculture and food schools, universities, and a wide variety of training programs in Alberta and Canada;
- manage your career, with links to career planning tools, information articles about finding and keeping a job, immigration and relocation advice, and (of course) an entire directory of external job banks;
- explore career options you may not have otherwise considered — or learn more about those you have — through a collection of career profiles and a brand-new careers podcast.
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Your Career Options Have Never Looked So Good!
The Soil to Sky portal is a managed and categorized collection of links and career profiles for the agriculture and food industry. Are you looking for an opportunity you might not have considered before? We want to show you just how rewarding — and surprisingly diverse — a career in Alberta’s agriculture and food industry can be!
The Soil to Sky portal was created under the Human Resources Information Exchange Centre Project and is a partnership of the Innovation in Agribusiness Management Fund, Alberta Agriculture and Food, and the Agricultural Policy Framework: A Federal Provincial Territorial Initiative.
Links, Profiles, and Podcasts… Oh My!
The Soil to Sky portal was launched on June 26, 2006 by Agriculture and Food Council in an effort to build the beginnings of a central exchange centre for agriculture and food information, links, and career concepts. Since that time we’ve responded to our visitors and improved the way information is collected and connected.
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. Are your interested in science? We’re willing to bet you can’t even begin to imagine how many possible career paths in research related to food, animal health and safety, or even the environment are out there waiting for motivated people like you. Or, are you intrigued by finance, investing or business? The movement of goods and services related to agriculture and food products in Canada feeds millions, is worth billions, and makes up a huge part of Canada’s economy. Maybe you’re looking to learn a trade, a skill, or work outdoors? From primary production to working with heavy-duty machinery, the skills and people that drive agriculture and food related jobs are often linked to wide-open spaces, family-oriented hours, and a great quality of life.
The Soil to Sky portal wants to help you find the career that fits your goals best. Browse our ever-growing collection of profiles, visit our many links to industry, government, and education options — and see what kind of career is waiting for you in the agriculture and food industry. Soil to Sky makes use of a modern web-based content management system to index and cross-link all sorts of agriculture and food career information. Sure, you’ll find things here that you could search for in a search engine or other agriculture and food website, but we’ve done a lot of that work for you and matched together hundreds upon hundreds of listings that are honed in on career searching exclusively. Give us a try, and thanks for visiting!
