Clark Marketing Communications Productions is one of eight companies in the north receiving Northern Ontario Heritage Fund money to support the tech sector, create jobs and boost the digital economy in the north.

The local company is receiving $60,000 to develop software that tracks and matches job seekers with relevant training and employment opportunities in provincial social assistance branches, like Ontario Works.

Company President Scott Clark tells BayToday it’s already in use.

“Over 20 municipalities around Ontario are using it now including eight First Nations,” he says.

Clark says it’s more than a job matching tool, it collects asset management information.

“It would be things like ‘Do you have a driver’s licence?’ ‘What do you want to do in the future?’ And it links not just people with jobs, but with training opportunities, with education, a number of different things and it moves them from social services into the workforce,” he tells BayToday.

Clark says the money is earmarked for hiring one or two more people.

(File photo by station staff)

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