Sector-Specific Terminology Information
and Counselling (STIC)

STIC Newcomer Resource Packages

The project has been developed for four sectors: Engineering, Accounting, Health Care, and Automotive Service Mechanics.

The success of this program relies on relevant, up-to-date Resource Packages for each participant.

Each resource package must contain:

• Articles and other documents providing labour market information on the occupation and related industries and occupations. This will entail visits to a library or employment resource centre as well as Internet access.
• Sample job advertisements for each occupation.
• A copy of the relevant provincial Act governing each occupation. You can order these Acts from Publications Ontario (416) 326-5300 or 1-800-668-9938. You can also obtain them through the Internet at http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/home_E.asp?lang=en
• Licensing/certification information (requirements and process) from the appropriate regulatory bodies.
• Articles relating to advances in technology in each occupation.

The STIC curriculum for each occupation provides job advertisement samples, links and resource suggestions for you to create these packages. However, there are also some very useful starting points on the web that you and your participants will find useful, as part of your program and after.

These web sites have information for the STIC occupations, but also provide additional information about other occupations, community services and resources that you and your participants will find useful. Staying up to date on trends, both in terms of occupational labour market and in services and resources for newcomers is essential for you to provide ongoing service to newcomers entering the local labour market.

Occupational Profiles

Use these occupational profiles, located on the Access to Professions and Trades (APT) in Ontario web site (funded by MTCU) to find useful links and information for your clients from the STIC and other occupations.

Click here to find more occupation profiles on the APT web site.

Additional Starting Points and Networking Sites

Use these key starting points to get additional, constantly updated and reviewed information and resources, and as an opportunity to link and network with other service providers across Ontario who are serving internationally trained professionals and tradespeople.

Use them as a resource for yourselves and as sites to provide to your participants for their further reading, information and education:

Access to Professions and Trades in Ontario - connects internationally trained people with services that can help put their skills and knowledge to work. This site includes a useful, clear language guide for newcomers seeking to work in the professions and trades in Ontario, a directory of community services across Ontario, job profiles and links to articles on the Settlement.Org, ONIP.Online and Possibilities Virtual Employment Resource Centre web sites.

Settlement.Org - Employment - Settlement.Org has useful guides and articles to provide a comprehensive overview of finding work in Ontario, including how to create the tools of the job search (resume, cover letter, portfolio, etc.), networking and connecting with employers, finding and using labour market information, workplace rights and health and safety, starting a business and much more. Settlement.Org's Discussion area also provides an opportunity for newcomers and service providers to ask their specific questions, network and learn from each other.

Ontario Network for Internationally-trained Professionals Online (ONIP.Online) - a resource for sector-specific employment information, services and support. ONIP.Online has information on licensing and on employment options which exist in Health Care, Engineering, Accounting and Teaching professions. There is also help in learning the English language terminology used in your professions, and opportunities to network with other professionals. ONIP.Online's Discussion area also provides an opportunity for newcomers and service providers to ask their specific questions, network and learn from each other.

Steps to Employment - a series of workshop manuals for 18 professions and trades, ready for use in settlement and integration programs in Ontario. Each workshop manual includes materials for twenty-five hours of orientation, and twenty-five hours of occupation-specific language training, for a complete ten days of full-time instruction. This useful site contains information about the following trades and professions:

• Automotive Service Trades
• Call Centre
• Computers
• Construction
• Education
• Electrical Trades & Occupations
• Entrepreneurs
• Financial Clerks
• Food Service Trades & Occupations
• Home Health Care
• Industrial Trades
• Logistics
• Personal Services Trades & Occupations
• Sales Occupations
• Technologists & Technicians in Applied Sciences
• Technologists & Technicians in Engineering
• Technologists & Technicians in Health Care
• Telecommunications Trades & Occupations