Connecting Indigenous job seekers with employment opportunities through inclusive technology & community partnerships.

We are building a Canada where Indigenous job seekers have equal access to employment opportunities as all other Canadians.

Our Children's Medicine bridges the gaps between Indigenous job seekers, Canadian businesses and nonprofit agencies to eliminate barriers to employment. Using HigherMe's assessment-based hiring platform, job seekers create an online profile that eliminates the resume and instead highlights skills, cultural, traditional and lived experiences.

The Our Children's Medicine Spirit

"With OCM, I was encouraged to think about what aspects of my culture could benefit me in the workforce, skills I hadn’t used before when applying for work. I now work full-time at OFIFC in Toronto!"

Randi O’Brien

Indigenous and barriered job seekers face multiple barriers to employment

Limited work experience

No high school diploma or resume

No desktop internet

Thoughtful community partnerships allows OCM to connect with Indigenous job seekers

"OCM has finally found a way to advance our community without sacrificing our cultural skills and experience. They took their time, and listened, and I wish they were around years ago!"

Karen Bomberry
Grand River Employment & Training

“As an integrated engineering consultancy serving our clients in remote northern communities, we firmly believe that employing and training local Indigenous community members is critical to our success and our clients’ success. When given the task to find EIT’s for our Thunder Bay and Sudbury teams, they turned around a great list of candidates within’ a few weeks! To top it off, they’ve been an absolute pleasure to work with and I’m excited about our joint commitment to give recruits the training and experience they need to advance their careers!"

Chelsie Klassen, Global Director, Indigenous Engagement - HATCH

Through HigherMe, Indigenous job seekers get hired by reconciliation-focused national brands

See our platform in action!

Our Partners

Our Results

Since partnering with HigherMe in September 2017, we've set the course towards building a sustainable, national employment tool.

75+

businesses have hired with OCM

17,000+

candidates in our Talent Pool

71%

of interviews lead to hires

753

jobseekers employed
since Sept 2017

Our goal is to close the Indigenous unemployment gap!

HELP US GET THERE

Our Children's Medicine

Our Children's Medicine connects Indigenous and barriered job seekers, Canadian businesses and nonprofit agencies to eliminate barriers to employment. Using HigherMe's assessment-based hiring platform, job seekers create an online profile that shifts the focus from prior work experience to lived and cultural experiences.

OCM became an independent not-for-profit in 2017 with governance and oversight provided by Birch Hill Equity Partners.

‘Our Children’s Medicine’ has been incorporated under the Federal Not-For-Profit Corporations Act.

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