**If you are an Employment Ontario IES service provider in the Bruce County, Durham Region, or Serco EmployNext (Kitchener-Waterloo-Barrie, Kingston-Pembroke, Northwest) catchment areas, your SSM is providing access to this course at no cost. Contact your SSM for more information and to register. Please do not purchase this course through this site.
 
PRICE
$499/person
 
DELIVERY
This on-demand program includes:
Part One: Complete Optimize Employment for Everyone course  (included in the participant fee)
Part Two: View 4 live recorded webinars 
 
A private blended learning option (on-demand with live webinars) may be scheduled upon request. A minimum of 10 participants is required. Cost: $499/participant. For further information and to schedule training, please email angela@evolutiongroupinc.com
 
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Job development is the art of engaging and influencing employers to hire job seekers with employment barriers. Without effective job development, many job seekers will never have the opportunity to go to work. Employment outcomes for these job seekers don’t happen by accident, they happen by design. Teaching staff job development skills is a very important part of the design, but it is not enough. Managers must create an environment for staff to successfully implement these skills and to stay motivated.
 
In this course, Angela Hoyt will provide resources and tools to support managers to plan for, and build, a culture of job development. A culture that has a large number and variety of quality employers that recognize the benefits of hiring from a diverse pool of job seekers.
 
Topics covered include:
Understanding the skills and processes needed to build reciprocal, mutually beneficial, relationships with employers
Building the employer engagement and job development action plan
Implementing and continuously improving the employer engagement action plan
 
ANGELA HOYT
Angela has 34 years of experience in the Employment Services Sector as a manager, job developer, and organizational development consultant. Angela has her Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Royal Roads University. Her thesis, The Organizational and Individual Characteristics of Successful Job Developers, included survey data from 13 Employment Service Managers and 109 Job Developers. 
 
Leading and Managing Employer Engagement and Job Development
This course helps managers strengthen employer engagement and job development in their organisations. You will learn how to lead with purpose, mastery, and results so that job development is fully integrated into your system and no job seeker is left behind.
Purpose is about keeping your mission front and centre. You will learn how to align your policies, practices, and resources so employer engagement is not an afterthought but part of your core service.
Mastery is about equipping your team with the skills, tools, and confidence they need. You will learn how to support practice, feedback, and continuous improvement so staff can build lasting relationships with employers.
Results are about proving your efforts work. You will learn how to set clear expectations, monitor progress, and celebrate wins, using results to drive reflection and system improvement over time.
The course includes:
Five video units (about 60 minutes total):
Introduction
Leading with Purpose
Leading for Mastery
Leading for Results (Part 1)
Insight to Action
Practical resources: course manual, desk aids, coaching and mastery session forms, leadership capacity assessment, and tools for anticipating barriers to job development
Exercises and reflections: guided activities to connect course content to your leadership role
A short course assignment: a quick reflection to show how you will put your learning into action
By the end, you will have clear strategies, ready-to-use tools, and a plan for leading job development in your organisation. This is about building a system that integrates employer engagement, supports staff in growing their skills, and uses continuous improvement to achieve sustainable results.