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Course offers money management skills Many skilled workers in the past have been imâ€" migrant males, she added, but with the recent decline of immigration into Canada, there has been a concern to train Canadians. For exâ€" ample,. she said, a skilled tool and die worker in this country could qualify for seâ€" veral jobs. _ _ The objective of the proâ€" gram, then, is to help women understand that these jobs are available. The program was started by Canada Manpower about five years ago in Toronto community colleges, Mrs. Avedon said. ‘‘"The program grew out of the rising unemployment of women. Because more women have joined the labor force in recent years and because of the economy, business hasn‘t been exâ€" panding,"‘ Mrs. Avedon The number of people who find themselives in financial trouble is almost directly related to the increase in credit buying, according to a local credit counsellor. at the Cambridge and Waâ€" terloo Campuses of Cones toga College. The program Women who planned to beâ€" come nurses, teachers, seâ€" cretaries, sales clerks or waitresses, aren‘t being abâ€" sorbed into those jobs. Add to that situation that the highâ€"paying jobs today are in the skilled trades and the entry of women into these occupations is natural, Mrs. Avedon said. jobs like nursing or teaching cording to Lisa Avedon, Coâ€" ordinator of the Intraducâ€" tion to Nonâ€"Traditional Tcâ€" cupations (INTO) Program is also offered at Coner Jobs are scarce for many people these daysâ€"and especially so for women who plan to enter "tradiâ€" for the skilled trades, acâ€" toga‘s Gueliph Campus. tional‘‘ female occupations. That is why more and more women are trading HILLVIEW 4 QT. AN EXCELLENT PLANTING MEDIUM REG. $1.29 INTO program offers employment alternatives Ontarie Seed Company Ltd. SPECIAL 16 King St. S.. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada © (519) 886â€"2990 OVER 80 YEARS OF GROWING SERVICE FREE PARKING IN REAR PLUS MANY OTHER INâ€"STORE SPECIALS If job experience isn‘t ofâ€" fered, the students must contact employers to arranâ€" ge at least two different job experience sessions. *‘*Most people don‘t realize that looking for work is a fullâ€"time job and that the average person applies for about 40 jobs before getting one," Mrs. Avedon said. "If you treat it like a fullâ€"time The women are tested for aptitude, interest and dexâ€" terity to determine if they are capable of doing the job and if they would enjoy the work. They are also given assertiveness training so they will learn how to preâ€" **You have to work twice as hard to get it, keep it and move up in it,"" she said. ‘‘But, as business and econoâ€" mics continue to change, women who consider ocâ€" cupations which they may not have thought about beâ€" fore, will likely be rewarded by good opportunities in higherâ€"paying jobs." Another INTO program is starting at the Waterloo Campus on February 5, 1979. For more information, conâ€" tact the Program Informaâ€" tion Office at 653â€"2511 Ext. job, you can handle 40 appliâ€" The coâ€"ordinator also said that students in this proâ€" gram must really work at getting into maleâ€"dominated 203 or 204. timate themselves. They need a realistic concept of what they can do," Mrs. Avedon said. After the women have deâ€" termined their interests and abilities, they contact emâ€" ployers and tour plants in opportunities come out of sent themselves to a proâ€" pairs. Often, job experience Pat Davidson, Credit Counsellor at the Family Service Bureau of South Waâ€" terloo in Cambridge, said credit buying has increased ‘‘drastically‘‘ since the ‘‘*Most women underes SALE, TIMED RELEASE DELIVERS JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF NUTRITION REG. $2.29 PREOISE SPECIAL Credit buying is more acâ€" ceptable now than years ago, Ms. Davidson said, so people tend to depend on it more than they used to. Conâ€" sumers are also more conâ€" cerned about how to spend and save money. ‘"If you can‘t use your money wisely to save it, then you will likely have trouble using it to pay for credit,"" the counsellor said. The course will deal with the steps of money manageâ€" ment â€" including decisionâ€" making on financial values and goals and the actual handling of money. The group will also discuss budâ€" geting, use of banks, conâ€" sumer contracts and protecâ€" tion and wise shopping. A maxzimum of 15 will be accepted into the course to allow for small group activiâ€" ties Discussion will center around individual experienâ€" ces or case studies so parâ€" ticipants can learn from exâ€" 1950‘s. Ms. Davidson is faciâ€" litator of the course, Money Management, which is deâ€" signed to help people learn or improve money manageâ€" ment skills. The course is one of 10 Women‘s Educaâ€" tion Program courses ofâ€" ‘‘If people are in financial trouble, they have to know how to get out of it, or know where to go to get out of it," Ms. Davidson said. But, the course is also of benefit to people who aren‘t in finanâ€" cial trouble â€" and want to keep it that way. Register by calling Paâ€" tricia Carter at Conestoga College, 653â€"2511, Ext. 291. fered by Conestoga College. The eightâ€"session course starts Wednesday, Jan. 24 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Kitchener YMCA on Queen Street. The fee is $24. 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