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What are top 10 summer jobs for students? The retail sector tops all others as the number one industry for students seeking summer jobs. The Canadian government has announced a $10 million budget increase to the Canada Summer Jobs program in a bid to encourage employers to hire more students. The support will help create 3,500 new jobs this summer. This summer 36,000 students will be employed in the program. "Canadians recognise that skills and experience are essential for success in the workplace," Labour Minister Diane Finley told reporters at a news conference in Ottawa. "The experience they gain this summer will result in new opportunities for them in the future."

The announcement comes as Canada's unemployment rate dipped to 7.4 per cent, its lowest in more than two years. Statistics Canada said 22,300 new jobs were created last month, slightly above consensus estimates following April's strong 58,000 jobs gain.

In May, most of Canada's employment gains came in the retail and wholesale trade industries, and in information, culture and recreation. Unemployment for students aged 20 to 24 year-olds remained high at 15 per cent, although it was an improvement from 16.5 per cent a year ago.

“It’s always been harder on that demographic,” said Peter Harris, content manager at Workopolis. “There’s a large number of students looking for work at the same time so that makes the competition more fierce for the positions that they would value the most.” Harris said students have the additional challenge of needing experience to get a job.

Still, Stats Can data shows there are some particularly student-friendly sectors. According to the agency’s labour force survey for May, the top ten occupations employing full-time students aged 15-24 were:

1. Retail, including sales clerks, cashiers and retail trade supervisors

2. Sales and service occupations, including travel sales

3. Chefs, cooks and occupations in the food and beverage service industry

4. Clerical occupations, including supervisors

5. Jobs unique to the employee’s main industry

6. Art, culture, recreation and sport-related occupations

7. Natural and applied sciences-related occupations

8. Trades, including construction and transportation labourers

9. Social science, government service and religion-related occupations

10. Health-related jobs, including technical and assisting positions.

White House Initiative Aims to Match Students With Manufacturing Jobs

The announcement comes days after the unemployment rate crept back up over 9 percent.

Seeking to offset weak job growth last month, President Obama announced plans today to establish a credentialing system for community-college students seeking jobs in the manufacturing sector, which saw particularly little growth in May. The announcement came during a trip to Northern Virginia Community College, where Obama met with students in training programs.

In an expansion of the administration’s “Skills for America’s Future” program, which helps companies partner with community colleges to better match training to job needs, the new program aims to provide 500,000 community-college students with the credentials to help them secure manufacturing jobs. The Manufacturing Institute, the nonprofit arm of the National Association of Manufacturers, will lead the effort.

“The president has repeatedly demonstrated that he completely gets that manufacturing has a future in America and needs to have a future in America, and I think this is another step along that very important road,” Obama’s assistant for manufacturing policy Ron Bloom said in a Tuesday conference call about the program. “It’s a clear recognition that while we obviously need the skilled engineers and the skilled scientists and others to lead, we also need skilled, blue-collar workers.”

The administration said that the standardized credentialing system is needed because training programs don't often line up with the skills employers seek. With input from the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and various national manufacturing organizations, the Manufacturing Skills Certification System will be available in 30 states as a for-credit program of study.

“There’s a mismatch that we can close, and this partnership is the way to do it,” President Obama said in making the announcement. “You’ll be able to know that the diploma you earn will be valuable when you hit the job market.”

There will also be an effort to begin the training process in high school by building partnerships with 3,500 member high schools and 200 colleges. Obama said that high school students need to see the “relevance” of their education to their future careers.

During his remarks, Obama called on Congress to pass the Workforce Investment Act to authorize funds that would help the government better match up the training offered by programs with employers' needs. Obama’s 2012 budget provided $10 billion for the program.

As he did on Tuesday in a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama blamed some of the recent economic failures on Bush-era policies. In his remarks at the community college, he mentioned a need to reverse a prerecession trend of declining jobs in manufacturing. On Tuesday, he said the worldwide recession was in part caused by “a whole set of policy decisions that had been made and challenges that had been unaddressed over the course of the previous decade.”

Although Obama frequently laid blame for the poor economy at the feet of the Bush administration before the 2010 midterm elections, he had abandoned that argument in recent months in favor of forward-looking policy speeches about the importance of investment.