Ontario’s economy is recovering from its recession, and youth were hit particularly hard. If you’re a young person in Ontario, finding a true career-oriented job is more of a challenge than ever, simply because everyone’s looking. A youth seeking to get their career rolling needs to be employable, meaning it’s less about what they know, and more about what they can do.

Centennial College’s mission statement is to educate students for career success, which puts it directly in a place to confront the issue. Fortunately, one of its strategic directions is to providing lifelong education and training that produces graduates with the skills necessary to sustain indi-vidual career success within a global economy. In layman’s terms, its degree programs are designed to provide students with job training that makes them immediately employable.

Centennial College is committed to giving its students practical life skills, the things that can get them hired. The school focuses less on sitting in lectures, and more on our students rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. Centennial’s instructors are industry professionals, and will get students away from their desks, and have them spend time actively doing the thing you’ll hope to get hired for one day, at one of our many labs and training facilities. It provides a dry run of the actual job, in a safe environment where a student is allowed to make mistakes and learn from that. On top of it, smaller class sizes mean the instructors will really get to know their class, and that class will get to know each other, providing students with the beginnings of a professional network of industry contacts. Finally, many of the school’s programs offer co-op or placement opportunities, taking practical training one step further by placing students in the middle of the job they want to do before they even graduate, opening up as direct a path to employment as possible.

SOURCE Centennial College