Experienced Worker Centre

Helpful Links

The team at the Experienced Worker Centre is committed to your success. If we don’t offer the service or resource you need, we’ll help you find it by assessing your needs and referring you to someone who can help.

Algonquin College Programs and Academic Departments

• All Program Offerings (Part-time, Full-time, Online Learning)
• Program Coordinators: The key contact for a wide range of programs of study at Algonquin
• Schools and Institutes: Algonquin’s Schools & Institutes gear programs, products and services to the needs and expectations of clients and students, enhancing learning with technology, and offering students hands-on experience integrated with classroom activity.
• Online Learning: AC Online
• Career and Academic Access Centre: prepares students for further education, training and employment through academic upgrading and advisement

Algonquin College Services – Current Students

• Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL): provides academic accommodations and educational support services for students with documented disabilities.
• Counselling Services: offers caring, confidential, professional help to current students at no cost
• Employment Support Centre: provides job search assistance to students and graduates
• Peer Tutoring: matches current students who are having academic difficulties with trained students for one-to-one tutoring
• Student Learning Centre: provides students with support in English, math, and computer skills
• Student Success Specialists: provide support and resources to help students achieve their academic and personal goals
• Campus Connections Store: Your source for books, technology, and Algonquin gear.

Algonquin College Services – Prospective Students

• Registrar’s Office
• Financial Aid: staff can help guide you with applications and forms, provide information about assistance programs and listen to your concerns about financing your education
• Test Centre: When you apply to a full-time program or want to register in certain continuing education courses at Algonquin College, you may be asked to take an admission-eligibility assessment.
• Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition can help you gain course credits for previous knowledge and work
• Career Advising – Counselling Services: To meet with a Career Advisor, please call the Welcome Centre to schedule an appointment. Please advise the Welcome Centre professional that you are a Prospective Student interested in meeting with a Career Advisor.
• Parking Services
• Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL): provides academic accommodations and educational support services for students with documented disabilities

Employment Support / Career Guidance

• Employment Ontario Ottawa Network: Connect to one of 13 Employment Ontario Centres in the Ottawa area – find the one closest to you.
• Employment Ontario: help getting the training, skills and experience to achieve your goals
• Career Advising – Counselling Services
• Career Counselling: This self-assessment tool can help you match your interests to an appropriate program of study and career.

Immigrant Service Providers

• LASI World Skills: connects immigrants to employment; offering programs and services to help increase their employability in the Canadian job market
• Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization: Settlement counselling, employment mentoring, immigrant women support, housing support and more.
• Catholic Immigration Centre – Ottawa: provides immigrants with services that they need when they arrive in Canada including information on immigration and citizenship processes
• Lebanese & Arab Social Services Agency of Ottawa (LASSA): offers a variety of services, including a Foreign Credentials Specialist who can help you upgrade your education or pursue work in Canada. LASSA’s main priority is to facilitate newcomers’ integration in the Canadian community regardless of their status
• YMCA-YWCA Newcomer Information
• YMCA-YWCA Language Assessment and Referral Centre

International Credential Assessments & Related Supports

• World Education Services: expert credential evaluation services and research about international education and trends
• International Credential Assessment Service of Canada: educational credential assessments and related advisory services

Labour Market Information

• Ontario Job Futures: provides information on the current trends and future outlook for about 200 occupations common to Ontario
• Job Bank: Government of Canada web site that helps you connect to top advertised jobs, how much money you can make, and what skills you’ll need
• Statistics Canada: Statistical information on a wide range of topics, including regional employment/unemployment

Financial Support & Guidance

• Better Jobs Ontario: Provides up to $28,000 to help laid-off or underemployed (less than 20 hours/week) go back to school
• Ontario Student Assistance Program: This is where you apply for OSAP
• CanLearn: information and tools designed to help you save, plan and pay for post-secondary education
• Scholarships Canada
• Student Awards
• Ontario Works Financial Assistance
• Ontario Disability Support Program

Apply to College

• Ontario College Application Service: The centralized application service for Ontario’s 28 public colleges