Past events for the Toronto Pearson Employee Community

An engaging and informative webinar panel on employment supports was delivered for job seekers, followed by one-on-one individual mentoring interviews with an experienced employment counsellor from ACCES Employment. ACCES Employment is a leader in connecting employers with qualified employees from diverse backgrounds. As a not-for-profit corporation, ACCES Employment provides job search services free of charge. ACCES Employment is a community partner of the Toronto Pearson's Propeller Project.

Date	Event details
Thursday, September 24, 2020	Ready for Employment, Part 1:  A workshop designed to assess your job search knowledge and identify where you need to focus your job search efforts. You’ll discover where you are on the Job Loss Rollercoaster, brainstorm ways to overcome barriers to employment and set some SMART goals for a strategic job search.
Thursday, October 1, 2020	Ready for Employment Part 2: This hands-on workshop will provide you with the essential information you need to develop a great resume and cover letter in a competitive job environment.  Learn how to outline your skills, experience, education and accomplishments for maximum impact and how to focus your content to match job requirements.
Thursday, October 8, 2020	Job Seeking for Experienced and Mature Workers: If you’re a job seeker over the age of 40 join us for this informative workshop to learn some strategic job search techniques that will help you triumph over negative age –related stereotypes. This workshop is designed to assist mature individuals assess and pursue career options based on their many years of accumulated skills and experience.
Thursday, October 15, 2020	Interview Strategies: Learn how to interview like a pro by taking this workshop.  In this workshop, you will learn about the steps you can take to prepare for your next interview, and leave a positive impression with your potential employer.
Thursday, October 22, 2020	Maintaining Mental Wellbeing: The Wellness 101 Workshop is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well, and design the life you want. This workshop will help participants discover simple, safe wellness tools to help overcome mental health issues and move on to fulfilling their dreams and goals.
Thursday, October 29, 2020	Women in the Workforce:  Attend this workshop to learn how you can establish a healthy work/life balance by learning about resources available to you and how to put them to use. This workshop will show how the skills you have mastered and the skills you are learning relate to the job market, and how to use these attributes to source jobs and advance your career goals.
Thursday, November 5, 2020	Career Planning: A workshop to designed for workers who need to move into an entirely new type of job and career, support in learning how to transfer existing skills, reskilling to secure a new position in a different sector.
Thursday, November 12, 2020	Education and Lifelong Learning: Employers tend to hire you for what you know, for what you are learning, and for your people (soft) skills.  In this workshop you will learn how to improve your existing skills through online learning, whether they be the technical (hard) skills of the job or improving your soft skills. It is an important strategy to enhance your hire-ability.
Tuesday, November 19, 2020	Financial Education and Planning (guest presenter): Financial Wellness: Budgeting and Debt Solutions 101 provides critical information to help you manage and deal with debt. You will learn about budgeting and debt relief options and better understand your rights in dealing with debt.
Thursday, November 25, 2020	Career Planning: A workshop to designed for workers who need to move into an entirely new type of job and career, support in learning how to transfer existing skills, reskilling to secure a new position in a different sector.
Thursday, December 3, 2020	Develop skills to pay the bills: Employers tend to hire you for what you know, for what you are learning, and for your people (soft) skills. In this workshop you will learn how to improve your existing skills through online learning, whether they be the technical (hard) skills of the job or improving your soft skills. It is an important strategy to enhance your hire-ability.
Thursday, January 21, 2021	Career Planning: This workshop is designed for workers who need to move into an entirely new type of job and career; support in learning how to transfer existing skills; re-skilling to secure a new position in a different sector.
Thursday, January 28, 2021	Maintaining Mental Well-being: The Wellness 101 Workshop is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well, and design the life you want. This workshop will help participants discover simple, safe wellness tools to help overcome mental health issues and move on to fulfilling their dreams and goals.
Thursday, February 4, 2021	Job Seeking for Experienced and Mature Workers: If you’re a job seeker over the age of 40 join us for this informative workshop to learn some strategic job search techniques that will help you triumph over negative age-related stereotypes. This workshop is designed to assist mature individuals to assess and pursue career options based on their many years of accumulated skills and experience.
Thursday, February 11, 2021	Ready for Employment, Part 1: A workshop designed to assess your job search knowledge and identify where you need to focus your job search efforts. You’ll discover where you are on the Job Loss Roller Coaster, brainstorm ways to overcome barriers to employment, and set some SMART goals for a strategic job search.
Thursday, February 18, 2021	Develop skills to pay the bills: Employers tend to hire you for what you know, for what you are learning, and for your people (soft) skills.  In this workshop you will learn how to improve your existing skills through online learning, whether they be the technical (hard) skills of the job or improving your soft skills. It is an important strategy to enhance your hire-ability.
Thursday, February 25, 2021	Ace your interview: A workshop designed to assess your job search knowledge and identify where you need to focus your job search efforts. You’ll discover where you are on the Job Loss Roller Coaster, brainstorm ways to overcome barriers to employment, and set some SMART goals for a strategic job search.
Thursday, March 4, 2021	Financial Wellness – Budgeting and Debt Solutions 101: If you’re a job seeker over the age of 40 join us for this informative workshop to learn some strategic job search techniques that will help you triumph over negative age-related stereotypes. This workshop is designed to assist mature individuals to assess and pursue career options based on their many years of accumulated skills and experience.
Thursday, March 11, 2021	Women in the Workforce: Attend this workshop to learn how you can establish a healthy work/ life balance by learning about resources available to you and how to put them to use. This workshop will show how the skills you have mastered and the skills you are learning relate to the job market, and how to use these attributes to source jobs and advance your career goals.

MyPlan is an online career development program offered exclusively to current or past employees of Toronto Pearson Airport delivered by the GTAA’s community partner ACCES Employment. The program helps participants develop skills that are vital to the future of work while building their professional network and marketing their skills to employers. This free intensive twelve-day career development training program ran its first cohort from August 4 to August 18, 2020. It included full time online training and one-on-one tailored employment counselling to support job search with an experienced job developer.

Suitable Impressions is a program of Brands for Canada that offers knowledge and resources to job-seekers. This workshop included key topic areas such as, how to make a great first impression, emotions, mindset, focus, work appropriate attire and confidence building. Workshops participants will receive a new work attire ($500+ value) and a gift bag full of personal care items ($75 value).

During four weekly sessions on July 2020, Human Resources Professionals from the GTAA answered submitted questions related to employment search strategies and career development steps. Discussion topics included: resume writing, cover letter, interviews (including virtual), job search, business communications, networking, transferable skills and changing your career.

Windmill Microlending provides financial support, up to $15,000, for the following expenses: educational courses and online training, licensing exams and fees, living expenses while studying, many other costs related to gaining professional credentials. You are eligible if you came to Canada as an immigrant or refugee, and have the following immigration status: permanent resident, convention refugee/protected person, Canadian citizen, provincial nominee. Information sessions were organized on June 8 and August 12, 2020.