Christie lines up applicants and jobs at IRC
Malcolm Gorrill
Northern News Services
Inuvik (Apr 13/01) - Darrell Christie helps others line up jobs.
Christie started as employment training officer at the Inuvialuit Regional Corp. April 2. He admitted that so far he's been reading a lot of material, such as employment standards acts and labour acts.
Christie is also busy reading job descriptions and trying to match up certain types of jobs with the resumes.
"We've got a filing cabinet full of resumes," Christie said. "We've got students that are returning from colleges and universities for the summer, we've got a listing of them. Hopefully, we'll be able to match them."
Christie pointed out he deals with Inuvialuit beneficiaries, as that is IRC's primary focus. Christie is himself an Inuvialuit beneficiary, having grown up in Inuvik.
His family moved south in 1971, but Christie made it back North. He worked in Tuktoyaktuk for a year, then worked for nine months at the Beaufort-Delta Self-Government Office in Inuvik. He then assumed his current post.
"This is the field I've always been interested in."
Christie said he likes helping people find work, and emphasizes with their career goals.
Christie has a management studies diploma from Grant McEwan Community College in Edmonton, and has a commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan. He will work towards a certificate in career development.
Christie aims to work with high school students, perhaps by putting on work shops at Samuel Hearne secondary school. Already he's begun plans to take six high school students to Edmonton and Calgary this July.
He explained the trip's purpose will be to introduce the students to university and college campuses.
Students will come from Inuvik, Holman, Sachs Harbour, Paulatuk, Aklavik and Tuk.
"They've run the program before and it was quite successful."
Christie finds his job rewarding, and said he started at a good time, as he'll have time to settle in before things get really busy in the fall.
"I'm going to be working mainly with the oil and gas companies in the fall, providing them with qualified Inuvialuit beneficiaries."
Christie and his wife, Stacey, have two children. Kaitlyn is five and Jackson is 20 months old.
