Developing Your Workforce
Let us help you tap our local talent while supporting our youth through their educational journey.
The IEC creates partnerships between the education sector and employers through strategic experiential learning programs. We have the ability to uniquely reach an audience of 24,000 secondary students and 67,000 post-secondary students of which 18-23% graduate in any given year. Short, medium and long-term strategies drive their career development.
The IEC will introduce your organization to the school community and bring you into the conversation with students, job seekers and families as they explore their educational plans and career aspirations. In partnership with Edge Factor, we effectively communicate your message through compelling video. Your leadership matters.
DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION
IEC of Hamilton Membership Benefits
- Receive promotion of your company's brand and career opportunities across IEC media channels. ℹ️We connect with teachers, program coordinators and guidance personnel who help students every day. Parents are also informed.
- Launch your company profile on the EdgeFactor.com smart platform.ℹ️Your profile includes videos, images, written information and access to your website. Help inform students with authentic career information to guide their educational planning.
- Have your jobs featured through Mohawk College, McMaster University and Redeemer University collaborations. ℹ️Your employment opportunities are promoted throughout the IEC network to current students and graduates using the full suite of career services available through our educational partners. This includes on-line job posting and invitations to career events.
- Augment and support your current marketing efforts with modular media tools for Education. ℹ️These include Virtual Workplace Experiences, Career Profiles and Skills videos which have high impact with youth.
- Access support to build your brand through experiential learning opportunities. ℹ️These include cooperative education, internships, apprenticeships, classroom speakers, company tours, mentorship and career fairs with students seeking career options. Help them plan for their career, as they eventually become consumers.
- Leverage an effective and economical approach to marketing and recruitment. ℹ️We utilize a targeted and effective communication strategy to our educational stakeholders that helps young people learn.
- Gain insight and understanding of the K-8, 9-12 and post-secondary education sector. ℹ️This understanding supports your corporate recruitment strategy and provides access to cross sector partnerships.
- Receive support to build a career focussed relationship with potential future employees. ℹ️ Youth gaining a better understanding of career options and opportunities prior to their entering the workforce supports them in attaining their career aspirations. Our short-term (post-secondary), medium term (high school) and long term (middle school) approaches, provide timely results while nurturing the future workforce.
- Access best practices and networking groups with educators and key stakeholders.ℹ️These may include potential customers and suppliers, some of whom are your peers in local companies across multiple sectors.
- Attend educational workshops and webinars, available to you and your employees. ℹ️These opportunities help build culture, support corporate strategy, your strategic initiatives and workforce development.
- Receive insightful newsletters about the education system and graduation statistics.ℹ️These resources help you to focus recruitment strategy with an informed approach.
IEC of Hamilton Membership Services
We offer a unique membership that will support your workforce development while helping youth and job seekers develop a career pathway.
- Add-on option: To effectively help showcase what you do, who you serve and the products you make, IEC & Edge Factor create a media package called "Virtual Workplace Experiences". Each of the videos included in this mini-series will help tell your story and create a modular stack of media that can be used in marketing, curriculum, case studies and recruiting efforts with students, job seekers and parents across Hamilton.
VIRTUAL WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES – EXPLAINED