Mark Hoult, Peterborough, Ontario (The Community Press) – Do you enjoy travel, change and challenge? Then the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force has a job for you.
The RCMP has 750 detachments across Canada and offers as many as 150 different types of policing jobs within the organization, says proactive recruiter Const. Chauntel Inman, who took part in the Eastern Peterborough County Career Fair Wednesday, Feb. 25 at the Asphodel-Norwood Community Centre.
“We need to hire a minimum of 1,700 people per year across Canada for the next three to five years,” Inman said, standing behind a table filled with information pamphlets about careers in the RCMP.
Inman said many RCMP officers hired during the recruitment blitz of the 1970s are retiring, leaving thousands of openings for new recruits. An applicant to the RCMP must be 18 years old, a Canadian citizen of good standing and possess at least a Canadian secondary school diploma.
And if an applicant gets through the testing process he or she will soon be at the RCMP training facility in Regina for the 24-week training program, Inman said. This is a major change from 10 or 15 years ago, when even a successful applicant had to wait until a position opened up, she noted.
An RCMP career is a good choice now not only because positions are opening up, but because the force offers a wide range of opportunities in locations across Canada, Inman said.
“There’s something for everybody. There are things you can strive for, and it’s always changing. You can move around. That’s what most of our members join for.”
Inman was among representatives of more than 30 companies and community organizations taking part in the job fair, which attracted hundreds of area residents, including students from Norwood District High School.
The career fair was organized by the City of Peterborough social services department, the Peterborough Employment Resource Centre and the Community Social Plan, in partnership with the townships of Asphodel-Norwood, Douro-Dummer, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen and Otonabee-South Monaghan.
The fair is of value to both employers and job seekers in eastern Peterborough County, said Kelly Mulligan, an outreach employment support worker for the Peterborough Employment Resource Centre.
“The fair also brings employers together to support each other, and it makes people aware of the various community resources that are available to them,” she said.
The Asphodel-Norwood Public Library was among the local organizations represented at the career fair. Library board representative Cathy Turner said library board members and staff “felt it was important to put our face out there as an employer in the community.”
The library offers part-time positions that for many local residents are more convenient and flexible, said Turner, noting that many students have expressed interest in working for or volunteering at the library.
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