Summer 2020 Internships
The Centre for Employment Innovation, St. FX Extension, is looking for three post-secondary students (either starting or returning to post-secondary in the Fall 2020) who are interested in joining a dynamic and supportive team. These positions will be a part of the Nova Scotia Works Summer Internship program. Click for more information.
Over the past two plus years, the employment services system has worked together to foster a more skilled, resilient, and productive workforce. The CEI and its partners aim to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within workplaces, so that all Nova Scotians have opportunities to meaningfully engage in the workforce.
The CEI is an important component of the employment services ecosystem in Nova Scotia. As part of a systems-focused approach to service excellence, the CEI conducts its activities in collaboration with the network of community-based Nova Scotia Works employment services provider, the Nova Scotia Career Development Association (NSCDA), and the Province of Nova Scotia’s Department of Labour and Advanced Education. (through Employment Nova Scotia). Through its diverse advisory board, its pilot and demonstration projects, and its rapidly growing applied research agenda, the CEI engages with many other employment-focused, career and community development organizations, and post-secondary institutions.
Through these innovative partnerships that push the boundaries to be more equitable, transparent, and accountable, the system works collectively to ensure that all Nova Scotians have access to high quality, evidence-based, and people-centered employment services and supports. The CEI and its system partners also work to ensure that employers receive the services and supports they need to create safe, welcoming, and inclusive workplaces.
The work of the CEI aims to shift the socio-economic development narrative in communities from a focus on weaknesses and deficits to an emphasis on strengths, opportunities, and assets. Further, the CEI complements the existing efforts underway at the StFX Extension Department’s Innovation and Enterprise Centre (IEC) that encourages social innovation, entrepreneurship, and enterprise activities across Nova Scotia. Through its relationships with a network of provincial workforce centres across Canada, and its growing partnership with StFX University’s Coady Institute, the CEI connects with leading organizations and institutions who offer exemplary practices in career development, community development, and social and economic innovation, and brings those practices back home. In the fall of 2020, Coady Institute will offer an inaugural certificate focused on the Future of Work and Workers which builds on the growing CEI partnership and Coady’s 60 years of partnership with leading community-based and non-governmental organizations globally.
Want to learn more about the recently completed and future activities of the Centre for Employment Innovation? Check out the new CEI Initiatives 2020 booklet!
Vous voulez en savoir plus sur les activités récemment réalisées et sur les activités futures du Centre pour l’innovation de l’emploi? Consultez la nouvelle brochure du CIE : Initiatives 2020!
*Veuillez noter que le contenu associé sont uniquement en anglais.