Developing the next generation of tech talent

We accept applications from registered Canadian businesses and non-profits who can provide a meaningful, tech-focused work placement opportunity to a student. Check out our employer resources to learn more. Large financial sector employers are no longer eligible, as well as post-secondary institutions and municipalities.

Students must be registered in an accredited Canadian post-secondary institution and must work in a role that is tech immersive – although they aren’t required to be studying something in tech! Check out our student resources to learn more. Unfortunately, we can’t award this subsidy to international students at this time.

Net New refers to growing the number of students you hire each year and represents the number of work placement subsidies you are eligible for. See the Net New section in the FAQ and/or Program Guides.

Net new is determined by subtracting the number of students your company is intending to hire (forecast) in the current fiscal year, including those already hired, from the number of students hired by your company in a fiscal year prior to first participating in this program (baseline).

For example, if your company hired 3 students in the fiscal year (April 1 to March 31) prior to applying for funding, 3 is your baseline. Then, your company must intend to hire at least 4 students in your forecast of hires within that fiscal year to qualify for 1 subsidy to support the increase.

Forecast – baseline = net new student placements eligible for wage subsidy

We recommend creating an application in the portal to take advantage of the online Net New calculator.

Hourly salary is up to the employer; the table below uses $16 per hour as an example.

The student’s hourly wage is set by the employer, abiding by enforced minimum wage requirements.  Students can be employed for full-time or part-time hours, and you can apply in consecutive placement periods!

Students must be employed as a fixed term employee and cannot be hired as a freelancer/consultant.

Work terms typically last 12 – 16 weeks during one of three placement periods:

• Winter (January – April)
• Summer (May – August)
• Fall (September – December)

Students can be employed full-time or part-time hours, and you can apply in consecutive placement periods! Students must be employed as a fixed term employee and cannot be hired as a freelancer/consultant.

We support any tech-immersive roles across many different disciplines and functions, and you don’t need to be a tech company to promote tech skills development. Some common examples include:

• Marketing: market research, industry analysis, digital marketing, branding, design, communications
• Strategy: consulting, analysts, business development
• Data & tech: data analysis, AI / machine learning, software development, IT support

Program Coordinators are available if you have any questions regarding eligible roles – check in this us by email.

We proudly offer a quick and easy 3 stage process at our online application portal. The first stage, applying, will take about 10-12 minutes to complete. Once submitted, it will be placed into our queue and will be sorted for eligibility. Priority will be given to those hiring students from underrepresented communities and to tech immersive roles that are within high-growth sectors. In order to equitably distribute the funds nationally, processing times may be longer than normal. There are two simple follow-up stages. Click here to start your application today!

We accept applications on a rolling basis and will update our site and applicants if funding becomes limited. Applications must be submitted before or during the placement period. For example, applications for Fall 2022 won’t be considered if received in January 2023.

Visit our employer/student pages for helpful resources like program guides and comprehensive application toolkits.

All general inquiries can be sent to careerready@technationcanada.ca or see below for our programming team.