34 - ~ Sunday, November 3, 1985 - North Shore News

Business _

‘TO THE employer, the new federal Job. Entry
‘and Job Re-entry: programs can mean ‘an. extra
worker for their business — one that won’t cost: a

‘penny.
~. To women who left the
-work: force years ago, and to
“young people fresh out of
“high school, they offer a
‘chance to break that vicious
‘circle: no experience, no job;

no job. no experience.
The Job Entry and Job

‘Re-entry programs, which:

are just beginning to get

“underway, will offer:a week-:-
raining allowancé™: to."

ly,

‘qualifying trainees. The fed-
_ eral-government will pay for
 the-classroom’ training,’ and

will-also pay a fee to course,
who™’ must

‘coordinators,
‘recruit trainees, then arrange

By LISA SMEDMAN

and monitor ‘their hands-on
work experience.

On the North Shore, both
Capilano College and North
Shore Continuing Education
are awaiting approval of
their program proposals by

Employment- and: Iinmigra-

Each has
lined . up: several

tion Canada, ©
already

- employers who ‘wish to take
“trainees, “ but-“there is still

room: ‘for: more businesses to
get involved.
The Capilano College

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program, initiated by com-
munications professor Mar-

tin Wittman, would train a’

total of 100 young people in
the automotive service in-
dustry. More than 65 dealer-
ships, parts’ warehouses,
transmission shops, brake,
muffler and radiator repair
franchises, and body shops
have indicated an interest in
the program so far.

Wittman’ hopes to have
the first group of 25, trainees
lined up by November or
December, His. program,
aimed ‘at-: both: men and
women, will: ‘involve, 13
weeks. .of classroom. instruc-
tion, ‘alternating ° with: 26

‘weeks of job training.

- Business owners ‘must

have a genuine interest : din.

training ° someone, said’ Wit-
tman. Employers ‘should
create a-job for the trainee
that will teach usable skills,
rather than using the trainee
merely as a source of free
labor. :

North Shore Continuing
Education has put in two
separate proposals. Each
program would have two
components: one geared for
youth, and one geared for
women who need to upgrade

skills after years away from

the workforce... ...;

Federal | program | allows c cheap p train

The second program deals
with teaching job-entry-level:
clerical, accounting and sec-
retarial . skills... Both North. ~
Shore Continuing Education ’
courses . would: involve’: 43
weeks” of class’ instruction

The first. program, ten- |

tatively named. ‘Developing

and: Operating a . Small
Business,”’ would teach “the:’”
basic survival skills of own-.

ing.:.or running a’ small

business.

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