Career Focus Program
The Career Focus program provides funding for employers to offer post-secondary graduates opportunities to gain career-related work experience. This program helps youth to gain advanced employment skills and facilitates their transition into the workforce by connecting them with employers who can provide youth employment experience.
To qualify for Career Focus, participants must be:
- between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive);
- post-secondary graduates;
- out of school;
- Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or persons who have refugee status;
- legally entitled to work according to the relevant provincial/territorial legislation and regulations; and
- not in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits.
Other criteria may apply.
Contribution recipients can be businesses, organizations (such as a not-for-profit, professional, or labour organizations, or employers), institutions (public health or educational), band/tribal councils, Aboriginal organizations, or municipal governments.
The Career Focus program provides financial assistance to contribution recipients so that work experience opportunities can be provided to youth.
Financial assistance can also be provided for national projects. To be eligible for national funding, organizations must provide activities in three or more provinces or territories.
For more information and to learn how to apply, interested businesses and organizations should:
- call 1-800-935-5555, TTY: 1-800-926-9105;
- visit How do I apply for career opportunities under Career Focus?; or
- visit a Service Canada Centre.