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Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding. We are thrilled so many of you want to join us virtually! Registration for the online 2020 Health Sciences CAREERS Academy is now up and running.

IMPORTANT NOTE The high volume of Health Academy r

IMPORTANT NOTE
The high volume of Health Academy registrants has caused the CAREERS website to crash, but we should have things back up and running shortly. Please stay off the site until then and monitor social media for updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you. Thanks to the community's efforts CARE

Thank you.
Thanks to the community's efforts CAREERS donated nearly 3000 pounds of supplies and just over $4900 dollars to the Wood Buffalo Food Bank. To all those that came out to drop off food, including CAREERS board members, and to those who gave money, we truly appreciate the support shown for our province. After the donation was made, a few team CAREERS team members spent the afternoon sorting through and making food hampers with all the donations from our community! #CAREERSconnects #yeg #yym

CAREERS is bringing a trailer of food and supplies

CAREERS is bringing a trailer of food and supplies to flood ravaged Fort McMurray, and we need your help!
Drop off your donations in the CAREERS parking lot Wednesday May 6 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (18256 102 Ave. NW.) Let's rally together and show our support! #fortmacflooding #fortmacflood2020 #fortmcmurraystrong #donate #abstrong

Say hello to Stephanie Jones(green jacket)! She is

Say hello to Stephanie Jones(green jacket)! She is our Calgary Fund Development Manager and more recently has become our from home fitness motivator!How you are keeping busy?By getting up at my normal time every day (5:15am!) to do a workout with some gym friends on Zoom at 6am. This keeps me accountable to a consistent schedule, wakes my brain and body up for a day of isolated computer work, and gives me some much-needed social interaction so I always start the day in a good mood!Why be a CAREERS Teammate?I have worked in the not-for-profit sector for most of my professional career, always having been drawn to the great people, fun environment, and feel-good reward of doing something that helps to make the world a better place. At CAREERS, I work with our industry partners and donors to help them bring young local talent into their workforces, contribute to their communities, and play leadership roles in their respective industries.Fun Fact:In the span of three weeks I went from having zero at-home gym equipment to getting rid of my kitchen table and couch, laying down rubber flooring, and turning my kitchen/living room into a functional gym, complete with a pull-up bar and spin bike! #priorities
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It`s a good thing I`ve invested in a home-gym and regular workout schedule, as I`ve also picked up the practice of (sourdough) bread-making, and after a week of making pizza dough, cookies, pancakes, artisan loaves, and dinner rolls, my bread intake has increased by roughly 1000%.

Check out some touching stories that Program Coord

Check out some touching stories that Program Coordinator, Ernie Grach, has experienced over his years at CAREERS. He shared some of the sights he has seen while working from home. While we might not have a picture of him, he is nearly dead centre in our team picture from last year!
From Ernie:
I have already sent out an email to my schools and our NW team meeting I will be discussing some strategies with my fellow teammates. So…I am working on two and possibly three student placements. This COVID thing is somewhat of a barrier. "As far as staying healthy is concerned, I have been riding my bike indoors practicing for the ride to conquer cancer. Unfortunately, it has been postponed ‘till the summer of 2021. I keep practicing though! I take my dogs for a quad ride every day – They run for about an hour, chase deer, varmints and ravens. It’s funny to see the latter. The ravens seem to know when the dogs are coming and literally dive bomb them. Then they fly away at about waist height just out of the dogs’ reach. It’s quite comical to see.I feed birds and watching them is like watching a ballet. They peck at the seeds until our neighbourhood squirrel chases them away. Then the magpies fly at the squirrel until the ravens come…and so it goes. All while a large chicken sits under the feeders, oblivious, and chows down. The chickadees have become so tame, if I stand still with seeds in my hand, they land on my fingers and eat the seeds.The favourite part of my job is working with the schools and presenting to the kids. But I also enjoy working with employers quite a bit. I love working with Indigenous kids the most. One of my employers has a shop foreman who was a RAP kid, his Heavy Equipment Technician, now a Red Seal Mechanic also came up through RAP and this year, they hired another RAP student as an apprentice HET. All Indigenous First Nation students – and all from Mistassiniy School. Other note in a similar line, Eagle Willier was a forestry intern at Buchanan Lumber in High Prairie. When I tried to place her, I was summoned to her home by her father. *Continues in comments.

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