Career fairs set for 5 Nunavik communities
Kativik school board’s Futures Fair will visit the communities in October
People take part in a Nunavimmiut Futures Fair event in Salluit in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Kativik Ilisarniliriniq)
The Kativik Ilisarniliriniq school board is set to host its annual career and vocational fairs in five Nunavik communities in October.
Nunavimmiut Futures Fair, launched in 2016, will connect high school students and adults with local organizations and partners to explore job opportunities and alternative career paths, said Joëlle Fares, development agent with the board’s adult education department.
Instead of a traditional fair, these events feature interactive workshops in classrooms hosted by representatives of major employers such as the Kativik Regional Government, Makivvik Corp., and the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services.
More than 10 partner organizations have confirmed their participation. During the fairs, high school students visit the classes during the daytime while adults take part in the evening.
The first scheduled fair runs Oct. 2 and 3 in Akulivik, while the final fair is scheduled for Oct. 23 and 24 in Aupaluk.
“The aim of the fair is to cover all Nunavik communities, and we do this for a period of two years. Right now, in this year’s edition we are covering the remaining communities of the 14,” board spokesperson Jade Bernier said in an interview.
Fares said that last year, some participants were hired right away as a few organizations had vacant positions to fill.
“I hope this year will be as successful as last year,” she said.
The Kativik board’s Future Fairs will be held in Akulivik on Oct. 2 and 3; Ivujivik on Oct. 6 and 7; Salluit on Oct. 9; Kangirsuk on Oct. 20 and 21; and Aupaluk on Oct. 23 and 24.
Job fairs are nice but much more and also earlier guidance for their careers is necessary for young people. There needs to be an inventory of existing jobs, and corresponding education and skills training for them–from an early age. For example, how many doctors, dentists and nurses are needed in the North? How many pilots, aircraft engineers and chartered accountants does Canadian North employ? How many skilled people filling what functions work for Baffinland and Agnico Eagle?
Fair enough 🙂
EVERYBODY IS ALLWAYS NEGATIVE !!!!
Too many see discussion and debates as arguments to be avoided. Not that people are negative, people are seen as negative because no one wants discuss progress with an effort. People want to pretend that things come to be without work and education. Thats the problem, negative yes but in a way that denies reality.
Such a negative view!!!
Improve your curriculums so that we can be ready for these jobs. I’d say less than 15% of all public management positions are beneficiaries. Nunavik is cash cow, piggy bank, fast growing savings account for non-locals.
When , we get ” SELF GOVERNMENT ” , all our problem will be solved .
The education has everything for nunavik and Quebec Canadians and foreigners. The only thing you got to do is apply yourself and the education system doesn’t need anything but you. For a moment pretend your an outsider and you will find yourself fully engaged. Your deficiency is in your own mind. You have the same opportunity as any other human. You can’t be galf trained just to suit some low quality, you are educated or you are not period. Where do you see a nunavik educated person vs an outsider ? Its a myth.
Even if you apply yourself, its not the best quality. Kids who started school in the south who applied them selves 100%, and who excel at the regular KI curriculums, are given “extra work”, or the “good stuff”. They still suffer the same teacher outages, missing approx 30% of school days, due to strikes, weather, and a butt load of teachers going on stress leave. When attestations were magically changed to diplomas, without the required additional knowledge, nobody won. With additional grades, upgrading, NS, cegept, real Nunavimmiut will be 30 years old when they finally attain the credits for University. KI should be ashamed of itself. Ruining lives just so managers remain in power. Its a big ass “help get my friends contracts” and credit card scam.