A new aboriginal website could soon be up and running if John Paul has his way.

The website would link aboriginals to job openings in the Atlantic region and profile skills of those searching for careers, said Mr. Paul, executive director of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs Secretariat Inc.

Job websites like monster.com and novascotiajobs.com are not readily used by Aboriginal Peoples in the region, Mr. Paul said Wednesday at the launch of an Atlantic aboriginal economic strategy in Halifax.

"Everybody assumes everybody uses them, but I know that our people are different," he said.

"We need to create our space such as aboriginaljobs.com that provides a supply (of workers) with the needs of the business community and the needs of the economy, so that there is a way to connect them."

Mr. Paul said he is in talks with business people about the launch of a website but is not yet firm on a name.

"I’m calling it aboriginal-jobs.com or something like that. They’ve got monster.com. They have got novascotia-jobs.com. I’m trying to come up with something leading-edge."

The Atlantic Policy Congress, which represents 37 native communities in the Atlantic region, including Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Innu nations, unveiled its economic strategy at a breakfast meeting for business people, government agencies and academics...

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