Engage students with free Ontario-based career exploration resources.
Discover resources to inspire, inform, and connect the next generation of industrial professionals.
Engaging stories to promote careers that build and shape our communities.
Guides to showcase careers in the trades that keep our world moving.
Tools to help share, promote, and recruit the next generation of service industry professionals.
Incentivize career exploration for your students with career stories of apprentices and skilled trades professionals from across Ontario. Earn badges and be entered into the monthly prize draw to win cool tech!
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Showcase Ontario’s skilled trades and highlight diverse career journeys through engaging videos.
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Choose a campaign and explore careers through interactive challenges.
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Complete activities to earn digital badges and qualify for monthly prize draws.
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Sign up to receive your FREE posters to inspire your students. Spark curiosity in the top 5 in-demand industries and empower students on their career exploration journey to watch real-life stories of apprentices who have launched rewarding careers in the skilled trades. Display them in schools, classrooms, hallways, and cafeterias to spread the excitement.
Connect your students with immersive career exploration at live events across Ontario.
The Edge Factor crew guides learners through 360° virtual reality stories featuring real professionals - from Millwrights and Bakers to Construction Equipment Operators - offering a realistic glimpse into life in the skilled trades.
This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Edge Factor is an exciting initiative that will provide our residents with access to explore and connect to essential training and career opportunities in skilled trades.
Sandra Easton
Mayor
Town of Lincoln
We're using Edge Factor in our counselors' offices… The value of Edge Factor for students in Calcasieu Parish, and the CTE department, is extremely valuable. We have to have it!
Tony McCardle
CTE Director
Calcasieu Parish
Skills Ontario is proud to stand beside Edge Factor as Premium Partners. Our teams have worked closely together on sustainable projects that live on and on, continuing to inspire audiences to get involved and launch training and career pathways into the trades, and we have experienced success after success.
Ian Howcroft
CEO
Skills Ontario
Through our partnership with Edge Factor, we’ve created inspiring content that helps students and job-seekers explore careers and build in-demand skills. Together, we’re helping people unlock their potential and imagine brighter futures.
Kate O’Neil
Vice President
Skills Council of Canada
Watching Edge Factor's films changed my life. They opened my eyes to how manufacturing is impacting the world. Edge Factor's state-of-the-art media is at the heart of my program and I've seen it inspire and engage countless students.
Marlo Loria
CTE Director
Mesa Public Schools
The multimedia content created by Edge Factor, including local stories that feature Indigenous individuals and women in trades, has been invaluable. This content highlights real-life success stories of graduates and professionals in skilled trades, fostering greater interest and engagement among our students.
Alex Harris
OYAP/SHSM/SCWI
Renfrew County District School Board
This platform has become an essential resource for our educators and students, allowing them to explore and share content in classrooms, at events, and in their homes. We particularly value the tools Edge Factor has created to promote the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM), and careers in the skilled trades.
Dave Eelkema
OYAP Recruiter
Grand Erie District School Board
These videos have been a fantastic resource in providing students with a realistic understanding of the skilled trades and the competencies required to succeed in these fields.
Cebert Adamson
Dean
Mohawk College
By combining hands-on learning, industry insights, and a robust curriculum, we’re sparking curiosity, building confidence, and equipping students with the knowledge needed to pursue careers that align with their passions. Students aren’t just learning about careers—they’re experiencing them in a way that brings their future into focus.
Deb Raeder
Vice President of Programs
ABEC
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