National Adult Literacy Database

Landing a co-op job while still in school can provide you with excellent experience and be a valuable stepping stone towards your future career.

As summer begins, parents are left looking for new ways to keep their children entertained. With this in mind, Caryn Antonini, founder of the Early Lingo DVD series for children and a young mother, offers five summer activity tips for parents that not only keep children entertained but also engaged and learning.

"This boost in the engineering and construction sector renders an undeniable need for experienced and talented professionals to power up the industry," says Mike Winterfield, president of Randstad Professionals. "But as the sector surges, skilled workers will become harder to find."

Following two months of large gains, employment was unchanged in May, and the unemployment rate remained at 7.3 per cent.

Both sides pledge to work together to promote mutually beneficial job training, energy production and economic development. Yukon College and the University of Alaska will continue their partnership in developing a shared underground and surface mine training program that meets industry standards in both Canada and the U.S.

For a small, northern literacy organization, the NWT Literacy Council has an unexpectedly wide reach. The resources it produces to help literacy workers do their jobs are in demand across Canada and internationally. Many of the resources are among the documents most downloaded from the online library of the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD).

Thirty-seven per cent of executives indicated their organization has activities such as a company picnic or potluck, and 35 per cent relax their dress code during the summer months.

Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI) has announced the 15 community organizations that have been awarded a total of $999,267 from the TD Financial Literacy Grant Fund to support financial literacy projects.

The Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), a coalition of Canada's large public libraries, along with many U.S. public libraries such as the New York Public Library, are putting forth their demands for changes to the way e-book content is purchased and delivered, in order to improve access for customers.

Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD and BDAA.

Canada's Building Trade Unions and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) have announced a joint agreement to advance long-term competitiveness of the oil sands industry, with particular focus on developing a stronger skilled trades workforce.

"Once the unemployment rate bottoms out, a labour shortage can continue to be avoided by encouraging more 60-somethings to stay in the workforce."

This new report, published by AlphaPlus in French, discusses the use of assistive technologies in the workplace and offers an approach to address the needs of francophone adult learners. More specifically, this report on assistive technologies and learner motivation is designed to help improve the instructional design of assistive technologies in order to prepare learners to develop and maintain new skills throughout their lives.

Literacy Alberta Awards of Excellence recognize contributions to the field of literacy in Alberta. Recognize an outstanding organization, volunteer, student or literacy practitioner by nominating them for an Award of Excellence. The awards are presented during the gala banquet at the Literacy and Learning Symposium October 17-19 in Edmonton.

When asked about your weaknesses, it's smart to answer the question in the context of the job you're seeking. You wouldn't say you're uncomfortable meeting new people if you're applying to be a sales representative. You wouldn't say you're uncomfortable with technology if you're applying for - well, just about anything.