MiHR Gearing Up – Student Work Placement Program (2022)
Description:
Gearing Up provides wage subsidies of up to $7,500 to mining employers who create new work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for students.
Gearing Up helps students develop skills and experience through WIL – aiding in their transition to long-term employment in the mining sector or the pursuit of advanced studies upon graduation. While Gearing Up is open to any eligible student, the program also encourages participation by underrepresented groups such as women in STEM, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, recent immigrants, first year students, and visible minorities.
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Comments on Funding:
Funding is up to $7,000, representing 70% of a participant’s compensation for WIL participants from under-represented groups (women in STEM, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, recent immigrants, first year students, and visible minorities).
An employer is eligible to receive a maximum amount of $5,000 representing 50% of a participant’s compensation for all other WIL participants.
Eligibility:
Eigibility requirements for employers:
Eligibility requirements for participants:
Applications Steps:
Documentation Needed:
Application (Phase I): To support their application, employers must provide:
a) Year their organization first participated in the SWP Program;
b) Number of placements in the year prior to participating in the SWP Program (baseline);
c) Number of placements the organization intends to hire this fiscal year The difference between the number of placements is their net new.
Application (Phase II): If accepted in Phase 1, the employers must submit:
Invoicing: The employers must submit the following documentation:
Other Things to Note:
Employers are invited to submit applications on an ongoing basis within MiHR’s fiscal year (April – March 31). Employers with active placements at MiHR’s fiscal year end will be required to provide MiHR with a reconciliation of placement funds expended to March 31.

Program Contact:
When It Ends:
Ongoing
Deadline:
Rolling deadline