Skills for Hire Atlantic
Launch a Career in Tech!
About Us

Digital Nova Scotia’s Skills for Hire Atlantic is an up-skilling and reskilling program training participants in cybersecurity and data analytics. As we all know, networking and connectivity play a huge role in moving into new roles and new directions professionally. The mentorship program offers our participants an excellent opportunity to meet industry professionals and learn more about the organizations that make up the tech landscape here in the Atlantic provinces.

Hosted exclusively through Mentorly, graduates of Skills for Hire Atlantic will have the opportunity to connect with mentors, who are industry professionals in the tech space in Atlantic Canada. Skills for Hire Atlantic participants have access to all mentor profiles on Mentorly, and can request a one on one meeting with a mentor.

Mentors are volunteering their time to support participants! These mentorship sessions give you the opportunity to discuss topics such as:

Career development, resume building, communication skills, networking opportunities, workplace culture, technical questions, trends in Atlantic Canada’s tech sector, human resources and recruitment, opportunities for additional education & certification

The mentorship program and Skills for Hire Atlantic are meant to prepare participants to contribute to a thriving tech sector in the Atlantic provinces. To do this, we have recruited mentors with industry expertise and in-depth knowledge of the tech sector in Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, and/or Newfoundland and Labrador. These mentors are expected to share their professional experiences, best practices, and insights with mentees to help them navigate their educational and career paths effectively to their mentees.

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Emily Yach
Emily Yach
Human Resources
Specialist, People & Culture
 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy
Technology, Management
 Windsor, NS
Esteban Sánchez Botero
Esteban Sánchez Botero
Communications & Marketing
 Moncton, NB
Manjot Bains
Manjot Bains
Technology
Back End Senior Consultant at Avanade
 Canada
Nishant Amoli
Nishant Amoli
Technology
Data Engineer
 Halifax
David Tonen
David Tonen
Sales/Business Development, Management, Communications & Marketing
CEO, BeResponsive Media
 Halifax
Garth Holmes
Garth Holmes
Technology, Sales/Business Development, Design, Communications & Marketing
COO, BeResponsive Media
 Halifax, NS
Dan MacLeod
Dan MacLeod
Customer Support, Technology, Management
Building Interactive Reports for client use.
 Halifax, NS
Brooke Ireland
Brooke Ireland
Management, Human Resources, Technology
Senior Consultant
 Halifax