Personal Career Training

The Willis College Career Services team provides career training that is unique among career colleges in Ottawa and Arnprior. They assist students and graduates in finding COOP placements and secure jobs in their field of study by working with employers to match the right person with the right position. Willis College has an impeccable reputation with local employers and is a shining example of personal career training by a private college. Over many years, these relationships have been established and are continuously growing to create even more opportunities for our graduating students to become top employees. Through these connections, we can accurately adapt our career college programs to labour market trends, and most importantly, we can connect our students and grads to their dream career. We are one of the only private colleges in Ottawa and Arnprior to offer this kind of one-on-one career training.

How a Placement Coordinator can help:

• Personalized one-on-one career training to develop an effective and focused resume to reach your employment goals
• Workshops discussing the latest effective job search techniques, pre-interview preparation, current labour market trends, and career possibilities
• Job placement assistance to gain valuable practical, real-life work skills
• Facilitate on-going campus connections with employers to provide job opportunities

Benefits of hiring Willis graduates:

• Willis programs offer practical, hands-on, instructor-led training with comprehensive, up-to-date curriculum
• Many programs provide industry certification as an indicator of high standards of graduates
• Many graduates have real-world co-op work placement experience upon graduation
• Willis graduates are adult learners and have many years of practical and transferable skills

Key performance indicators for Private Career Colleges:

KPIs show how graduates have fared after graduating from PCC vocational programs. They help future students make more informed decisions about their postsecondary education and help institutions identify areas of strength and weakness and opportunities for improvement.

This report provides key performance indicator (KPI) results for 2013 private career college (PCC) students who graduated or who were scheduled to graduate in 2013 from a registered PCC approved to receive students assisted by the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP).

Published 2013 KPIs include OSAP default rate, graduation rate, graduate employment rate, and graduate employment rate in the field of study.

Results are provided as averages for the PCC sector as well as by program type, program category, and individual programs at each school. The report does not provide data for all institutions, but only for those approved for OSAP as of January 1, 2013.

Click here to see Detailed Report of 2013 Results

The report is a summary of results from the ministry’s pilot year for calculating and publishing PCC KPIs and does not represent the entire sector. PCC to PCC comparisons (rankings) could produce misleading results because of PCC size, local employment conditions, program mix, and graduate demographics. The data from each PCC should be considered on its own.

The ministry is using lessons learned from this first KPI collection cycle to strengthen the KPI reporting methodology. KPI data will help the Superintendent of Private Career Colleges and the sector establish measurable benchmarks for vocational programs provided in the PCC sector.

For more information, here are the links to our campuses:

Ottawa Campus 

Arnprior Campus
(KPIs  not available until the year 2014)