When preparing your application, you also have to show:

• how long you have been unemployed, or working your temporary job, and looking for work
• places you have applied and positions you have applied for (for example cover letters, CV and responses from potential employers)
• level of education obtained
• previous employment, how long you worked there, and skills that were required
• what skills you want to obtain and where you can get trained in them

Which applications are being fast tracked

While the Second Career program is open to all laid-off workers and jobseekers, priority is given to applications for people who were laid off because of COVID-19 and want to retrain for jobs in sectors that have good potential for future employment.

Applications that meet all the following criteria will go through a faster approval process, helping people get access to training sooner:

• The applicant was laid off on or after March 1, 2020.
• The applicant has high school education or less, or was laid off from an occupation requiring no more than a high school education and job specific training, such as food and beverage servers, flight attendants, and retail salespersons.
• The applicant was laid off from an industry hit hard by the pandemic, such as hospitality and food services, transportation and warehousing or wholesale and retail trade.

The applicant wants to train for a career in demand in local communities or provincial priority areas.