Consider the Employer and Job Offer

  • Reputation: Are there any complaints with the Better Business Bureau regarding the company?
  • The company's Mission Statement
  • Training period: paid or not; safety training and gear provided?
  • "Perks" to the job, e.g. free clothing, access to local events for promotion
  • Turnover rate:  Has the job been open before?
  • Signing a contract?  Read it all the way through and have others look it over.
  • Workplace environment: Office setting? Outdoors? Heights? Confined spaces? Hazardous materials?
  • Work schedule: nights, weekends, overtime, flexibility, guaranteed hours
  • Compensation: salary; commission/bonus: how is it calculated? Check out links to sites about salary.
  • Unsure of your rights and responsibilities regarding labour standards and/or health and safety? Check out It's Your Job, the official website of the Ontario Ministry of Labour for young workers and new workers.  Find out how to be safe at work.  Find out how to be treated fairly.

Trent University respectfully acknowledges it is located on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishnaabeg. We offer our gratitude to First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings.

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