Career Mentorship

One of the challenges students face to stay motivated in school starts with the question ‘What do I need this for?’ Career exploration is one way of helping young people find answers to this question by providing them with the opportunity to explore their various interests and make an informed decision about what they want to do in the future.

To provide youth with a firsthand glimpse of their chosen future career, IEC has created a Career Mentorship program funded by The Ontario Trillium Foundation. This program recruits volunteer mentors from different walks of lives to provide experiential learning opportunities for young people within our community.

Mentors are encouraged to share knowledge of their career or sector to individuals or groups in different situations that include:

Speaking in classrooms (1-2 hrs)
Workplace tours (2-3 hrs)
Participating in a mentorship dinner (3-4 hrs)
Job shadowing (6-8 hrs)
Taking a co-op Student ( 4hrs per day for a school term)
Internships ( 3-12 months)
Apprenticeships ( multiple months or years)

In order to promote community Career Mentorship, IEC works with a wide range of businesses and industries.

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Providing Career Mentorship opportunities to young people will enable you:

Understand the next generation of your workforce
Promote your business, organization or industry
Encourage young people to be interested in your sector
Help in shaping your future human resource strategy
Get recognition for your sense of social responsibility

Become a mentor and:

Promote your profession or sector
Help the career future of young people
Understand the future workforce
Become a role model
Be recognized as someone making a difference in our community
Feel enhanced pride in your profession

Career Mentorship Benefits you to:

Explore your future career pathway
Learn what you need to do now to be successful in the career of your choice
Understand your future career and the world of work
Identify strategies to help you pursue your future career goals
Make connection and networks in your field of interest
Improve your communication skills and confidence
Increase your employability for the future