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EY Tech Talent Builder
Empowering Canadian veterans to build an IT workforce across Canada
What EY can do for you
EY Tech Talent Builder upskills Canadian veterans into certified job-ready candidates across Canada in a variety of digital and IT skillsets.
With EY Tech Talent Builder, your organization can recruit veteran talent who have been fully trained in various IT competencies to help fulfill your organization’s needs while benefiting from past experience as a CAF service member.
EY helps candidates discover their potential by assessing culture fit, personality type, aptitude, learning style and provided comprehensive training to find a strong career match. EY Tech Talent Builder helps you recruit a talent pool of highly skilled and qualified individuals who are ready to help your organization address its IT challenges.
Building a net-new IT workforce tailored to your organization’s needs
Access to highly skilled and trained veterans to help your organization meet demand:
IT competencies:
- Project management
- Data analysts
- Service desk
- Software development
- Cloud
- Cybersecurity
- AI
- Business analyst
- Robotic process automation
- Linux
- General IT support
- Process automation
- IT administrators
Putting veterans at the centre
The EY Tech Talent Builder program facilitates free IT training for Canadian veterans and their spouses to upskill and help find meaningful careers across Canada. The program aims to remove barriers of entry into IT careers while creating an exclusive net-new workforce to help meet the high demand for IT personnel in critical roles.
Since 2020, more than 3,000 people have enrolled in training. The program has directly helped more than 400 individuals find and secure new IT careers with our clients. The Tech Talent Builder program aims to bridge the gap between supply and demand of IT personnel by putting people at the centre to help shape the future with confidence.
Data-driven testing methodology and training programs
Delivering the right fit for your organization and the candidate starts with vendor-agnostic skills across a centralized pathway model which, in many cases, has led to talent outperforming experience. Tech Talent Builder candidates take the assessments outlined below, the results of which aid in matching them to the career path they’re most likely to excel in, leading to increased job satisfaction and productivity.
Candidates are put into accelerated learning and then EY works with our clients to match them to roles leading to both meaningful employment for the veteran and highly skilled talent for the organization.
The Benefits
For Canadian veterans:
- Supports veterans upskill, find and earn meaningful employment after their service to Canada in highly sought-after careers.
- Training is free for all veterans and their spouses, removing the barriers of entry into meaningful IT careers.
- Individuals are provided with 300+ hours of free training in one of 16 IT competencies.
- By providing the necessary training to foster their skills, we can help veterans thrive in a new career following military service.
- This program doesn’t just provide free upskilling. It’s designed to help individuals in finding their first IT career. They’re also free to find employment outside the program since employment matching is optional for all candidates, and the training remains free.
For Canadian organizations:
- Access to a new and dynamic veteran workforce designed to fulfill your organization’s IT requirements while benefiting from the individuals’ past experiences, training and characteristics.
- The program works with you and your organization to put candidates in place to train so they match to your roles and requirements, setting a foundation for high performance and high retention rates.
- EY continues to support the candidates once they’re placed in your organization. This enables continued learning and upskilling so the veterans’ learning continues to align with new on-the-job experience.
- You have the ability to review résumés and interview candidates following your HR process and policy for new hires.
Looking for more information on EY Tech Talent Builder? Contact us.
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