VPI Working Solutions

Site: Kincardine Branch

Service: Ontario Employment Services

Record #: BRU0132
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2022
Last Full Update: 10 Jun 2022

Description

Description (Service)
  • Comprehensive employment and job search services
  • assessment of skills, interests and experience
  • job search strategies, including resume preparation
  • information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
  • on-the-job training, work experience, help in maintaining employment as well as information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario
  • skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers
  • help in identifying human resource skills requirements, matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
  • support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant
  • financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
  • available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees
Youth Job Connection
  • paid pre-employment services
  • job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
  • mentorship, education and work transition supports
Youth Job Connection Summer
  • summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

Service Details

Hours Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Areas Served Bruce County ; Kincardine (Town of)
Eligibility Self-service information and resources
  • anyone, including people with jobs, those who are under-employed, people looking for work, students, apprentices, internationally trained individuals, employers
Assisted Services (such as supported job search, job matching and placement, job retention services)
  • people who are unemployed and out of school
Youth Job Connection
  • Ontario residents 15-29 years who are eligible to work in Canada, unemployed, not attending school full time and experiencing multiple barriers to employment
Youth Job Connection Summer
  • Ontario high school students 15-18 years intending to stay in, or return to high school or go on to postsecondary education after the job placement
  • focus on those facing challenging life circumstances and at risk of experiencing poor transitions between education and work
Application
  • Call or drop in
  • for general information on Employment Ontario services call the toll-free Employment Ontario contact centre at 1-800-387-5656 (TTY 1-866-533-6339) or visit www.ontario.ca/page/employment-ontario
Languages English
Fees None

Address and Location

Located In Community Kincardine
Address & Map
UBC Local 2222
385 Queen St
Kincardine, ON N2Z 2R4
 
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Physical Access Fully Accessible

Contact Information

Office Phone 519-881-4900
Toll Free Phone 1-855-260-4900
Fax 519-881-3789
E-Mail infowalkerton@vpi-inc.com
Website https://www.vpi-inc.com
Social Media Facebook Facebook: www.facebook.com/vpiinc
LinkedIn LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vpiinc
Twitter Twitter: twitter.com/vpiinc
Primary Contact Lisa Fagan, Branch Manager; Phone: (Cell) 519-378-8390; Email: lisafagan@vpi-inc.com
Mailing Address PO Box 730 
Walkerton, ON N0G 2V0

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