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61. Summary Outcomes from the SHARE Essential Skills Knowledge Forum with Dr. Robin Millar (2006)
Authors: Yvonne Stewart
Collection: Research Materials
This report is a summary of the outcomes from the SHARE Essential Skills Knowledge Forus with Dr. Robin Millar.
The Essential Skills Forum was a six-week project that ran from March 26 - May 6, 2006 (pre-project preparation & outlines started March 20). In May, there were 41 Registered Participants (5 of whom were out-of-province). The forum had 2,153 web page hits, or people accessing and responding to information.
Participants from Alberta, Manitoba, BC and the Northwest Territories joined Dr. Millar “live” online Thursdays from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm MST. Questions were welcome and answered outside of office hours as well.
Added: 2006-06-21
62. Theoretically You Can't Teach Adults to Read and Write: But Just Keep On Doing It (2006)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
The author writes on "Why is it so hard to get funding for adult literacy education"?
He explains that innumerable studies, reports, TV shows, and statistical surveys in most of the industrialized nations of the world declare that their nation is being brought to its economic knees because of widespread low basic skills (literacy, numeracy) amongst the adult population. But repeated calls for funding commensurate with the size of the problem go unanswered. Why?
Added: 2006-06-15
63. Training Activities (2005)
Series: Tools for Training Support - HRSDC
Authors: Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
This short guide is designed to help employers incorporate essential skills into workplace training. The essential skills include thinking, working with others, document use, oral communication, reading, writing, numeracy, continuous learning, and computer use. Activities that focus on each of these nine skills are provided. They can be used in formal or informal training to help employees improve their essential skills. The activities listed here are suggestions only. Employers are encouraged to modify them or develop new activities that are tailored to the specific needs and goals of their organization.
Added: 2008-04-04
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64. Training, the Bottom-Line (2001)
Canada's Food Retail and Wholesale Sector
Authors: Kirk Falconer, Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
This report presents a brief summary of the results of the research on the of the business performance impacts — or return on investment (ROI) — of training.
The discussion is organized as follows:
• An introduction to the issue, including what defines business performance impacts/ROI that may me attributable to training;
• Recent evidence concerning the relationship between business trainers and performance, based on industry surveys in Canada and the United States;
• An overview of current company level practices with regard to formal training evaluation and the degree to which performance results are captured. This is supplemented by several case examples drawn predominantly from the food retail and wholesale sector;
• Some brief reflection on how these findings relate to specific human resource issues and training strategies in Canada's food retail and wholesale sector.
Added: 2007-05-01
65. What are Essential Skills profiles? (2005)
Series: Awareness Tools - HRSDC
Authors: Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Collection: Research Materials
This one-page fact sheet would be useful to anyone unfamiliar with Essential Skills profiles. In this fact sheet, Human Resources and Social Development Canada provides basic information about Essential Skills profiles by answering the following questions:
What are Essential Skills profiles?
What do profiles include?
How can profiles be used?
Who uses these profiles?
Added: 2008-04-15
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66. What is the Essential Skills Research Project? (2005)
Series: Awareness Tools - HRSDC
Authors: Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Collection: Research Materials
In this short document, Human Resources and Social Development Canada briefly describes the Essential Skills Research Project (ESRP) that the federal government launched in the early 1990s and what has been achieved since this project began. The ESRP identified nine Essential Skills: reading text, document use, numeracy, writing, oral communication, working with others, thinking skills, computer use and continuous learning. It also developed a methodology to profile the skill requirements of occupations in the Canadian labour market.
Added: 2008-04-15
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67. Where Did All the Workers Go? The Challenges of the Aging Workforce (2001)
Authors: Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission, Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
This report concludes that both labour and management are waking up to the fact that they will face very real problems if they fail to start planning now to replace the loss of experience and skills from retiring workers. Forward planning by both unions and companies will have to address the skills needs of both companies and workers in terms not just of current needs but also of what skills portfolio would be appropriate in the future. It will be important for companies and unions to be forward looking and begin the process of developing strategies before the wave of retirees hits their particular workforce. The increasingly recognized importance of skills as a key inhibitor to a firm’s competitiveness will help these participants focus on this issue.
Added: 2007-06-20
68. Workbook 1: Assess your skills (2004)
Series: Skills at Work series
Authors: Trudy Kennell
Collection: Learning Materials
The workbooks in the Skills at Work program are for adults in upgrading programs who are preparing for work. In Skills at Work, learners read about different kinds of jobs and the skills needed to do these jobs. The workbooks help learners see links between the skills they may already have and the skills they need at work and illustrate how skills can be transferred from one job to another.
In Workbook 1, learners collect information about their employment goals and about the world of work. They will also find information about different kinds of training and learn ways to find, save, and use information about jobs. This workbook consists of the following five units:
Unit 1 - Collecting job information
Unit 2 - Tara, Anya, and Doug - How do people know what kind of job they could be good at?
Unit 3 - Working on self-assessment
Unit 4 - Reaching your goal
Unit 5 - Training for work
Added: 2008-10-23
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69. Workbook 2: A day on the job (2004)
Series: Skills at Work series
Authors: Trudy Kennell
Collection: Learning Materials
The workbooks in the Skills at Work series are for adults in upgrading programs who are preparing for work. In Skills at Work, learners read about different kinds of jobs and the skills needed to do these jobs. The workbooks help learners see links between the skills they may already have and the skills they need at work and illustrate how skills can be transferred from one job to another.
This is the second workbook in the series. It contains "a day on the job" stories in which workers describe what's involved in doing their jobs. Through these stories, learners discover the skills required to do these jobs. This workbook is organized into two units. Unit one, Teams at Work, includes three activities. Unit two, Job Stories, features eleven job stories, and each story is followed by one or two activities.
Added: 2008-10-23
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70. Workers Educated Abroad: Seduction and Abandonment (2003)
Food for Thought: Document no. 10
Authors: François Lamontagne
Collection: Research Materials
Recently, the media bombarded us with news items focusing on the problems faced by immigrants – let’s call them new Canadians – looking for work. We were told that the image of someone with a PhD driving a taxi or welcoming us to the neighbourhood McDonalds may well reflect reality. Some observers find this situation ironic since these problems encountered by new Canadians contrast sharply with forecasts of shortages of qualified labour in a growing number of companies and industries.
Some have described Canada’s efforts to attract qualified workers trained abroad as seduction and abandonment. These people are lured with promises of jobs and a quality of life that draw heavily on Canada’s reputation in other countries, but once they arrive, they are left to their own devices. Given this situation, there is good reason to question the validity of pre-arrival perceptions and the role that career development professionals can play in making any necessary adjustments.
This document includes insight into:
- The contribution to immigrants to Canada's economy
- New Canadians are under-employed
- New Canadians are over-qualified
- The challenge for career and workforce development, and
- Avenues for intervention
Added: 2007-06-07
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