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Employability Services

Employability Services

Free Services for Montreal Women – Online or on site

Are you a women looking for a job or a change in your career?

Take part in one of our three work integration programs in order to achieve your goals!

A team of professionals specialized in career counselling, training, employability, and psychosocial counselling will accompany and guide you in your journey back to work or school. 

Our programs are offered online or in person.

We are recruiting. Contact us now at 514 866-9941, ext. 416 or by completing the form below.

Programs and services adapted to your needs

Orientation and Services for Employment (OSE)

For women searching for a job or reorienting their career:

Free in person and online services offered by an expert team of counselors

The OSE program is what you need! This program offers à la carte individual career counselling and job search assistance as well as workshops on job search techniques.

Make an appointment with a counselor:
514 866-9941, ext. 416 or fill out the form below

Read more about Orientation and Services for Employment

Women’s Work Integration Program (WWIP)

For women who have been away from the job market:

Free training workshops for unemployed women

Discover our Women’s Work Integration program, designed for women who want to make a career choice that corresponds to their interests. This intensive 19 weeks hybride training program (online and in classroom), includes a professional internship and helps women integrate into the workforce by offering them workshops in self-awareness, career-orientation, and job search techniques.

Attend an information session:
514 866-9941, ext. 416 or fill out the form below

Read more about Women’s Work Integration Program

Fringues & Cie

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For women looking for training:

6 months of paid work in a school-boutique 1

The Fringues & Cie program offers women with limited or no work experience, a six-month semi-specialized training program in retail sales and customer service combined with real work experience at Fringues thrift-boutique, the YWCA Montreal school-boutique.
1 Program is offered in French only.

Attend an information session:
514 866-9941, ext. 284 or fill out the form below.

Read more about Fringues & Cie

* The YWCA Montreal employability programs are financed by Services Québec. Eligibility to those programs are determined by the ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale criteria.

 

Want to learn more?

Call us now at 514 866-9941, ext. 416 for more information about our employability programs.

You can also fill out the form below, we will contact you as soon as possible. Please note that, for confidentiality matter, our phone number will appear as a private number. Talk to you soon!

 

  • In order to verify your eligibility to our programs, we will need to talk to you on the phone. Please note that our phone number will appear as a private number on your caller ID.

  • - Be unemployed or working / studying part-time
    - Be a resident of the Island of Montreal
    - Understand and express yourself in French or English
    - Be legally authorized to work in Quebec
    - Meet the eligibility criteria of the ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
    (Other criteria may apply)

  • - Be a resident of the Island of Montreal
    - Understand and express yourself in French or English
    - Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or accepted refugee
    - Meet the eligibility criteria of the ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
    (Other criteria may apply)

  • Be a resident of the Island of Montreal
    - Have a good knowledge of French
    - Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
    - Meet the eligibility criteria of the ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
    (Other criteria may apply)
    **Program offered in French only**

  • To qualify for our services, you must meet the eligibility criteria of the selected program. Please refer to the description of each program to verify your eligibility.
  • Tell us more about your current situation.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Employability Services News

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Working behind the scenes at the Montreal YWCA employability services is a dream team made up of employment counsellors, guidance counsellors and social workers who help participants in their search for a career path. You’ve already met Jéhanara Sage, a guidance counsellor with the OSE (Orientation and Services for Employment) program, and today we’d like Read More >>

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“I was told that I couldn’t wear my veil at work. I was asked intrusive questions regarding my family and they demanded to know my country of origin. I got so tired of this, I changed my name on my CV and I heard back from a lot more employers!” – Najat Najat is not Read More >>

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Stop harassment in the workplace

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In Quebec, every employee is entitled to a healthy work environment without psychological, unfairly biased or sexual harassment. But what is harassment? Definition The Act respecting labour standards sets out the criteria defining it. We therefore refer to psychological or sexual harassment when a work-related situation involves all these combined characteristics: vexatious behaviour (abusive, humiliating, Read More >>

Pay equity demystified

We often hear about pay equity, but do we really know what it means? The principle of pay equity requires “equal pay for different but equivalent work”. Pay equity is a right for all workers in Quebec, whether they are union members or not. This right is governed by the Pay Equity Act and affects Read More >>

Promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace

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“Where are you from?” is a workshop that was developed as a result of our virtual reality experience. It was specifically designed to raise awareness of unconscious biases among those responsible for hiring and help them develop strategies to identify these biases, thus promoting good practices within their businesses. In partnership with : Did you Read More >>

5 Tips for a winning CV

Competition in the job market can be fierce. Here are 5 tips to improve your CV (Curriculum Vitae) and help you take your place in the professional marketplace. 1) Make sure your CV is short and to the point Your CV must not exceed 2 pages. Aim ideally for one page. Employers are busy and Read More >>

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