Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta

Dress for Success: This program entails individual consultations on professional business attire to women facing financial barriers who want to join the work force return to school or engage in volunteer opportunities. In addition to information and workshops on business culture and appropriate dress participants are offered gently used clothing and accessories at no cost to help them look and feel their best. Employment & Life Skills Program: This program offers a series of workshops that help immigrant women plan and prepare for their future in Canada. The training provided in this program builds confidence and skills in the areas of career planning communication Canadian business culture and accessing community resources. This includes: Effective Resume Writing Interviewing Skills Online and Off-line Networking Canadian Business Culture Personality Dimensions Career Planning and Innovative Job Search. My Best Friends Closet Program: My Best Friend’s Closet provides teenage girls from low-income households with clothing and accessories to meet their school and recreational needs as well as valuable leadership and personal development opportunities —all at no cost to their families Women in Technology Program: The Women in Technology Program is a free integrated skills training program that combines employability skills upgrading technical training (in the field of web development) and hands-on work experience to produce employment outcomes for immigrant and aboriginal women in Calgary. Qualified instructors will deliver Web Development Training. Including but not limited to: HTML CSS Python JavaScript and SQL.