employment programs
Workforce development efforts
Employment programs are organized efforts to help people find work or prepare for employment.
Government employment programs may provide job training, placement services, or subsidized positions: The city's employment program matched workers with local businesses.
Some target specific populations—veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, or long-term unemployed.
Corporate employment programs typically refer to internships, apprenticeships, or diversity hiring initiatives.
- apprenticeshipsSupervised vocational training periods
- internshipsSupervised workplace learning periods
- on the jobActively performing duties
- jobPaid position of employment
- reskillingLearning new work capabilities
training · public works · job boards · vocational education · skills gap · workforce development · infrastructure projects · tax incentives · welfare to work · back to work · second chance · construction projects · green jobs · job placement services · recruitment agencies · career fairs · certifications · placement
- Canadian ArcticNunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Yellowknife
- economic stimulusstimulus, stimulus package, stimulus packages, fiscal stimulus, economic relief
- employment servicestemp agency, staffing firm, job placement, job listings, recruiter
- veteran employmentveteran jobs, job placement, career transition, veteran support, veteran affairs
- veterans groupsAmerican Legion, VFW, war veterans, combat veterans, disabled veterans
- Indigenous WelfareIndian Act, residential school survivors, tribal courts
employment programsnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
hiring freezes · deregulation · austerity measures · trickle-down economics · privatization
employment programslayoffs
Mass job eliminations
unemployment · downsizing · redundancies · job losses · outsourcing
employment programswelfare
Comfort and prosperity
unemployment benefits · public assistance · basic income · workfare · disability payments