Summer & Part-Time Opportunities Fair Exhibitor Guide

Summer & Part-Time Opportunities Fair

Mitchell Hall, Bartlett Gym
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 10:30 AM - 3:30 PM

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Axon

Founded in 2016, Axon Property Management started with a single-family home and has since grown to manage over 2,800 tenants across Kingston, Ontario. We pride ourselves on being one of the leading property management firms in the area, specializing in residential property maintenance, leasing, and tenant relations. Our young, dynamic team embodies a "get things done" attitude, ensuring quality service for our tenants while fostering a supportive, growth-oriented environment for our employees. At Axon, we’re passionate about maintaining properties people love to call home.

Job type: Summer

Available jobs: 

  • Landscaping Crew Member
  • Seasonal Maintenance Technician
  • Property Maintenance Helper
  • Painting and Repair Crew Member

Level of study: All student

Ideal student: 

Our ideal summer part-time employee is motivated, hands-on, and adaptable, ready to assist with maintenance, property upkeep, and repairs. They should have a positive attitude and enjoy being part of a team dedicated to keeping our properties in great shape.

I-EDIAA Initiatives:

We are actively working on promoting equity and inclusion by implementing unbiased hiring practices, offering diversity and inclusion training, and fostering a safe space for employee feedback. Our current workforce is diverse, with employees from a variety of cultural backgrounds and who speak multiple languages. We remain committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities and encouraging diverse representation across all levels of our organization.

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manitou

Camp Manitou is an overnight summer camp for kids ages 6-16, located in McKellar, Ontario. Established in 1959, Camp Manitou differs from other camps as we let our campers express their individuality and choose their own schedules. From over 30 activities to choose from, Manitou offers a wide range of sports, visual and performing arts, and outdoor adventure activities. Whether you are someone just looking for a job for the summer or looking to start a career in outdoor education, one message remains the same: Our staff are our strength: With over 200 staff and close to 450 campers per session, we take pride in our Staff/Camper ratio. The training we provide our staff ensures that they are well prepared for the job and just as important, have fun in the process. Manitou’s Director team is made up of mature teachers, professionals and parents who do an incredible job supporting and training our staff as well. At Manitou we are all about diversity and allowing individual needs to be met for both campers and staff. Because of this format, our staff are often trained in certain specialities and able to give our campers the best experience possible.

Job type: Summer

Job Available: 

  • General Counsellor
  • Activity Counsellor
  • Nursing Staff
  • Activity Staff

Level of study: All students

Ideal student: 

The want and ability to work with children is key to the hiring and success of our staff members. As well, a skill in a specific activity area is something we value - whether it be a land sport, water sport, or an arts based skill.

I-EDIAA Initiatives:

Camp Manitou is committed to employment equity and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Camp Manitou prides itself on creating a community that is accepting of all, and teaches that diversity among a community is a strength. As such, the staff member is expected to be tolerant, supportive and affirming of all backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender identities and expressions. In our hiring practice, we exhibit the same things we expect of our staff - to be accepting of all diversities, whether it is age, religion, race, or gender. Our staff community includes a range of people from all over the world, of all ages, coming from different backgrounds.

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IT

The IT Services department at Queen’s aims to strengthen student success and research impact through enabling, procuring, maintaining, and allocating information and technology services. Our talented workforce and culture of collaboration allows IT Services to explore the ways in which digital technologies can be used to address obstacles in teaching and learning and facilitate new opportunities for our community. Our vision is a Queen's community that is empowered and enriched by evolving digital technologies, and experiences first-rate service.

Job type: Part-time, summer, internship

Available jobs: 

  • Technical Writer

  • Walk-In Help Desk and Documentation Associate

  • Queen's Switchboard Operator

  • Classroom Technology Associate

  • IT Project Management Intern

Level of study: Undergraduates - all years

Ideal student: 

An ideal candidate would be a good communicator, with strong attention to detail, who is willing to learn, and would be comfortable with any technical aspects of the position. Knowledge of the University environment is a plus, as is any prior experience that is consistent with the particular role being applied for.

I-EDIAA Initiatives: 

Significant efforts have been made to ensure our Department promotes equity and diversity in our workplace. This includes but is not limited to mandatory training for all staff (on topics such as Accessibility and Positive Space), regular communications through newsletters providing information on related presentations and learning that are available, visiting speakers, encouragement of participation in our Human Rights & Equity Office Challenge (with high participation rates), and recent work towards development of an inclusive language guide. Senior leadership within the department, and at the University as a whole, have ensured that equity, diversity, and inclusion have a high priority and are promoted consistently within the workforce.

SEO

The Student Experience Office (SEO) in the Division of Student Affairs at Queen's University offers programs and services to orient students to university life, to support their successful transitions into and through university, and to encourage leadership development, student engagement, and co-curricular involvement while at Queen's. Our programs and services help prepare students to achieve not only their personal, social, and academic goals, but also their professional and community aspirations.

Job type: Part-time, summer, volunteer

Available jobs: 

  • Transition & Engagement Student
  • Lead Mentorship Programs Student
  • Lead Marketing & Communications Student
  • Lead Gender-Based Violence Awareness & Bystander Intervention Student
  • Lead Peer Program Volunteers

Level of study: All students

Ideal student: 

The SEO is looking for students with a passion for supporting their peers and key skills around leadership, inclusivity and intercultural competence, communication, and collaboration.

I-EDIAA Initiatives: 

We believe students and staff thrive in an environment that centers and celebrates their unique experiences and needs. We are committed to creating an equitable experience for all students.

 

 

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talk

Telephone Aid Line Kingston (TALK) is a confidential, anonymous, and non-judgmental listening phone line. Our aim is to meet the needs of a diverse population by providing an empowering, empathetic, and safe environment through the provision of a listening phone service, as well as community outreach and education.

Job type: Volunteer

Job available: Phone line responders

Level of study: All students

Ideal student:

Volunteers at TALK are empathetic and non-judgemental. We require a high degree of professionalism and a commitment to serving all members of the Kingston and surrounding area.

I-EDIAA Initiatives:

At TALK, we listen to callers from all walks of life. We are confidential and non-judgemental. We seek out feedback from our volunteer base to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion practices within our organization, and prioritize having ongoing conversations about EDII within our executive team. We constantly strive to make our service more accessible and welcoming to all callers and volunteers, and are happy to accommodate your individual needs.

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