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NALD's Feature of the Month: A Timeline of Literacy and Essential Skills from Essential Skills Ontario
Posted: May 1, 2013 | 
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“Throughout its long history, the literacy and essential skills field has continually evolved and adapted in response to the changing needs of adults. This timeline captures some of the important people, events, initiatives and other influences that have helped shape the literacy and essential skills field in Canada over the past 200 years.” -- Essential Skills Ontario
Managers need to be up to speed on their people skills
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Managers wear many hats and have to be in tune with the people they manage. Empathy, one of many dimensions within the spectrum of emotion intelligence skills, refers to the ability to be aware of, to understand and to appreciate the feelings of others.
Job search firm calls for National Work from Home Day
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Workopolis website says that allowing the Canadians who spend just one day a year driving to work alone would save about $120 million in out-of-pocket expenses and eliminate more than 60 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions.
While not suited for all jobs, telework is gaining traction
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
A concept of work that has struggled to find its way into mainstream offices around the world may finally be coming into its own. Even the term itself may be outdating itself.
Broadening the Base for Strategic Workforce Planning: The Value of Cross-Functional Partnerships
Posted: August 31, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
In 2009, The Conference Board introduced the SWP Maturity Model, a framework that shows a fairly typical evolutionary path of strategic workforce planning. The Maturity Model gives companies a yardstick for assessing their current SWP practices and knowing what the next stage of SWP maturity looks like.
Smart Sessions for employers - Participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges faced by Canadian employers
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Smart Sessions are participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges that Canadian employers face. Each session focuses on an issue of priority to local business communities.
Essential Skills Day is coming up on September 23
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The second annual Essential Skills Day will take place on September 23, 2011 during Learn@Work Week. This day raises awareness of the nine essential skills and looks at the importance of skills training in the workplace.
Modernizing Employment Insurance Delivery to Canadians
Posted: August 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The federal government announces further measures to improve processes and modernize the delivery of Employment Insurance (EI) to Canadians.
One in four workers will be 55 and over by 2021: StatsCan
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canada's labour force is aging rapidly and by the year 2021 as many as one in four workers could be age 55 or over, according to a recent report by Statistics Canada.
Workplace crisis calls hit new highs during summer months
Posted: August 16, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Many Canadians look eagerly each summer to taking a vacation and enjoying the weather or a trip, but studies show a large portion of workers still don't take their allocated vacation time away from the office. It appears to be leading to higher stress and anxiety levels.
Spotlight on Apprentices: Instrumentation Technician and Electrician – Richar Eben-Ebeneau story (PDF)
Posted: August 11, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Richard Eben-Ebeneau grew up with first-hand knowledge of the trades since his father was a dual ticket instrument-electrical journeyperson. "I considered other careers in high school, but I decided on the trades as I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of the electrical-instrumental field and the pay was great," said Richard.
Many baby boomers keep working beyond age of 65
Posted: August 10, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The trend toward working beyond the age of 65 is most pronounced in B.C., where 25 per cent of workers plan to stay in the workforce beyond that age, according to a Conference Board of Canada survey released earlier this year. Nationally, the number was 21 per cent.
Statistics Canada releases employment numbers for July 2011
Posted: August 5, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Following three consecutive months of increases, employment was little changed in July. The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage points to 7.2 per cent, as fewer people participated in the labour market.
The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO.
Two months from ‘help wanted’ to ‘you’re hired’?
Posted: August 3, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
In today’s competitive job market, taking two months to fill an open position may seem improbable. However, a recent survey found it typically takes eight weeks for employers in the legal field to fill management-level legal positions and six weeks to fill staff-level roles.
Canadian employers opening doors in greater numbers: survey
Posted: August 2, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canadian employers have started lifting their feet from the brakes they applied in the wake of the recession, according to two indexes which show a steady increase in recruitment and staffing levels.
‘Millennials’ looking for work need to be patient, mobile and more flexible than ever
Posted: July 29, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Despite Canada’s strong showing in the face of a global recession, Canadian graduates are finding it tougher than ever to join the workforce.
Worker fatigue may interfere with a good day on the job
Posted: July 28, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Workers who experience a boost during a rough day tend to be less tired at the end of the day, even an extremely stressful one. There are five ways an organization can alleviate the effects of negativity at work, says an expert in human behaviour.
Boosting office morale could boost organization’s chances of reaching its goals
Posted: July 28, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Low morale in the workplace can lead to poor co-operation, low productivity, increased turnover – and ultimately stop a business from reaching its goals.
A simple first step is to ask exactly what restrictions are imposed in one’s own workplace. In some cases, raising the issue along with a reasonable case for employee rights might well ensure that an employer who hasn’t given the issue much thought will prove willing to allow workers to speak freely.
Yukon youth to benefit from federal, territorial support for skilled trades, technology
Posted: July 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Yukon youth will have the opportunity to showcase their talents in the skilled trades and learn about career options in the trades and technology sectors, thanks to support from the governments of Canada and Yukon.
Time to unplug: Career coach offers advice for workers preparing for vacation
Posted: July 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
When heading out on vacation, turn on your “out of office” email manager informing people you are unavailable and whom to contact regarding urgent issues. Create an outgoing voice message with the same information. Then unplug.
Sector councils have valuable training tools to foster workplace learning
Posted: July 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canada’s sector councils play a key role in helping industry develop training programs that benefit workers in their industries. Many of these programs are adapted by other organizations and by educational institutions.
Unpaid interns: Working for free but getting valuable experience?
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
As if shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for post-secondary schooling isn’t enough, an unpaid internship has become a rite of passage for many students.
SkillPlan offers online training in essential skills
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
SkillPlan, a leader in essential skills, is pleased to present these online workshops for professional development. The workshops offer practitioners ideas on how to use these resources in instruction and provide an opportunity to share ideas with colleagues.
Council of the Federation announces literacy award winners for 2011
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Canada’s premiers have announced the recipients of the seventh annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award. Presented in each province and territory, the award celebrates outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy. The winners are...
Hone your workplace skills with bite-sized e-learning
Posted: July 15, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
With most e-learning courses, you can proceed at your own pace on your own time. You can review material during a coffee break, or spend time on the laptop while your spouse is engrossed in a television show you can’t stand.
Second annual Essential Skills Day is September 23, 2011
Posted: July 15, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Essential Skills Day shines an important spotlight on the nine essential skills as defined by the Government of Canada, and will convene employers, governments, unions and the literacy field in various initiatives to celebrate the importance of workplace essential skills.
A shortage of skilled trades workers is the next major crisis to hit the machine, tool, die and mould sector, said the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Moldmakers.
Statistics Canada takes look at how we Canadians spend our time
Posted: July 13, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canadians who performed unpaid work, such as housework, childcare and civic and voluntary activities, reported spending four hours and four minutes on these activities on any given day in 2010, up eight minutes from 1998.
Up to ‘TASC:’ Skills development fact sheets now available for download
Posted: July 12, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Seven recently published fact sheets, compiled by The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC), highlight innovative responses to some of Canada’s key human resource challenges.
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