Interviews began Monday at the George Gordon First Nation Training and Employment Centre.
The centre has been in the works for over a year and is a partnership involving the band, the provincial ministries of economy and labour and the federal government.
Program coordinator Crystal Longman says the first step is finding out who will able to take the training.
Longman says there is also a work place essential skills program starting Oct. 1 in which Carlton Trail Regional College will train 15 people.
The band’s coordinator Byron Bitternose says some people on the reserve have difficulty holding down jobs but it is not because they are lazy.
“When you don’t have to get up on time for anything, some of our people have been working off reserve but have been quitting, and that’s just lack of knowing that you have to get up at a certain time, you have to be at work on time, you can’t be on your phone or Facebook,” he says.
Bitternose says, aside from life skills and resume writing, academic upgrading will also be offered to band members.