Billion-dollar development increase to create a whole lot of fine jobs in Cape Breton

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From Construction Daily – Trent Soholt grew up in Fort McMurray and saw more than his fair share of building in the oil industry service town so familiar to generations of Cape Breton workers. But Soholt doesn’t work in the oil field. In fact, he doesn’t even live in Alberta. For the past 14 years, he has served as the Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council (NSCSC), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing human resources and competencies in the industry’s industrial trade institutions (ICI).

Participants in the Women Unlimited's Career Exploration Program make their way toward the Membertou Place job site for a tour of the work going on at the three-storey, 55,000 square-foot office building currently under construction. DAVID JALA/CAPE BRETON POST - David Jala

Women encouraged to explore careers in Cape Breton’s construction industry

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From Cape Breton Post – It’s not every day that a 19-year-old woman doles out career advice to a group comprised of women mostly older than herself. But that was the case for apprentice carpenter Nicole Scott who on International Women’s Day shared her short but interesting on-the-job experience with a dozen other women from across Cape Breton. On Monday, the latest 12 participants of the Women Unlimited Association’s Career Exploration Program (CEP) toured the work site where Scott has been working since last July.

Information sessions planned to help prepare Cape Breton workforce for upcoming job opportunities in construction sector

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Registration is now open for Building Construction Careers in Cape Breton, a virtual information series to engage the local workforce in major construction projects planned for Cape Breton -Unama’ki. The purpose of these sessions is to share information about the infrastructure projects and the potential employment/training opportunities in the construction industry with the job-seeking public.