CBT program helps students find summer jobs

Thanks to a pilot program by the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), some 100 students in the Columbia Basin have jobs this summer at a time when summer employment is not easy to find.

CBT’s 2010 Summer Works Program is now fully subscribed which is pretty fast work for a program of its size considering planning for the program didn’t begin until March.

The summer-long program offers businesses and social enterprises (non profit groups) subsidies of up to $8-an-hour to hire students enrolled in post secondary training this fall. The program was open to students in the Columbia Basin in both the East and West Kootenays and can be used for post secondary training at colleges, universities, vocational schools and trade schools anywhere the students chose to be trained.

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