DATE ISSUED:  November 29, 2017

EVENT: Information Session for QIA’s Inuit Labour Pool Database and the Qikiqtani Skills and Training for Employment Partnership (Q-STEP)

EVENT DATE: December 1 and 4, 2017

EVENT TIME: 9am to 2pm on both days

LOCATION: Inukshuk High School, Iqaluit

The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) is hosting an information Session for QIA’s Inuit Labour Pool Database and the Qikiqtani Skills and Training for Employment Partnership (Q-STEP).

The Qikiqtani Skills and Training for Employment Partnership (Q-STEP), is designed to meet the employment needs of Inuit. This program will boost skills development across Qikiqtani, with a focus on training in the mining sector, for a four year period ending on March 2021.

QIA is also launching a new Inuit Labour Pool Database called Tuttarvik. The database will be used to promote training opportunities to Inuit and to assist employers, such as Baffinland, with identifying qualified Inuit candidates for employment and training opportunities.

An Information session will be held at Inukshuk High School in Iqaluit to inform and enroll Nunavut Inuit into these programs.

Similar information sessions are being help in all 13 Qikiqtani communities.

For more information, please contact:

Sima Sahar Zerehi,

Director of Communications,

Qikiqtani Inuit Association

Email: szerehi@qia.ca

Phone: (867) 975.8413

Toll Free: 1.800.667.2742