To be eligible for a student job or internship, you have to be a Canadian citizen, have permanent resident status, or have a work permit issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
To be eligible for a student job, you must also meet one of the following criteria:
See the Students section for details.
No. You continue to be considered as a full-time student only if you are registered part time for the last term of a college or university program recognized by the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports in an educational institution in Québec
Check the Useful Links section or the Online Placement Web site
for help in finding employment.
See the Eligibility Criteria section.
To be eligible for a student job or internship, you have to be a Canadian citizen, have permanent resident status, or have a work permit issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
To be eligible for a student job, you must also meet one of the following criteria:
You can go to the Fondation de l’entrepreneurship Web site
.
The Portail gouvernemental des services aux entreprises
provides full information for your dealings with the Government of Québec.
Through the Interprovincial Summer Job Exchange Program, Placement étudiant offers university students a chance for a summer job in their field of study with a government department or agency in a participating province and the opportunity to live in a different sociocultural environment and to improve their knowledge of another language.
The Centre d’assistance au placement, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
No. Only the Online Placement registration is needed for your application to become available the employers who use the service. Once your application is posted, you are automatically registered for student jobs within the Government of Québec.
By entering your user code and password, you can access your file and make as many changes as you want to your listings.
If you have problems with the Online Placement site, you can contact the Centre d’assistance au placement Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
No, but your field of study is the first criteria for the random searches carried out Québec government departments or agencies when they select candidates for student jobs with the Québec government.
By indicating the types of jobs that interest you, based on aspects such as your education and experience, you increase the likelihood that private-sector employers will notice your posting.
Your age is used to validate your eligibility for summer jobs with the Québec government. This information is treated as strictly confidential.
You can check job offers as often as you want. You can also create Job Alerts! in order to receive automatic e-mail notifications of job offers that correspond to your interests.
Once you have posted a student candidacy, you are automatically entered in the bank of listings for student jobs with Québec’s civil service. Your candidacy for these jobs is valid until September 30 following your date of registration.
Once you have registered, your listing can be viewed by thousands of employers looking for students to fill jobs, including Québec government departments and agencies, private-sector employers and municipalities.
For student jobs with the Québec government, Placement étudiant makes a random selection based on the candidates’ fields of studies and the available jobs.
If an internship is specified as part of your training, your eventual employer could be eligible for a tax credit from the Ministère du Revenu du Québec
.
Some employers specify in their job offers that they are interested in hiring interns. It is up to you to contact your educational institution to find out whether your potential job qualifies as a credited internship.
You should take this possibility into account when you create Job Alerts! via the Online Placement site.
Online Placement does not keep résumés. You remain registered on Online Placement
until you delete your registration yourself. However you have to reactivate your file by publishing at least one student candidacy by October 1 of each year.