Benefits

Student Benefits

• Paid summer employment, minimum of 360 hours (180 per phase)
• Acquisition of 100 plus hours of employability skills training from professional in the business community.
• An opportunity to “network” with employers.
• An opportunity to gain valuable work experience while still in high school.
• Gains an understanding of employer expectations
• YAP employability skills workshops and work experience helps prepare students for transition to post-secondary school or work.
• An opportunity to explore a career field before entering post-secondary education.
• Develops maturity and increased self-confidence.
• Completing the employability skills workshops provides students with knowledge and a certification document to include in their portfolio for future employment opportunities.
• Preferred seat at NBCC or preferred status at UNB, UNBSJ, Universite de Moncton and Atlantic Baptist University.

Employer Benefits

Employers partnering with the Youth Apprenticeship Program also derive significant benefits as their student employees are well prepared for the world of work.

• Develops a work force of young people who have employment skills and on the job experience.
• Helps identify potential future employees.
• Encourages students to have a positive attitude towards productivity in the workplace.
• Enables employers to participate directly in the education of students and to keep educators informed of their requirements with respect to future employees
• Develops supervisory skills in employees.