Bridge to Better Onboarding
Providing language, essential skills, and intercultural communications training early in the workplace integration process increases engagement in orientation training and onboarding and can reduce workplace disadvantages immigrants sometimes face. In Bridge to Better Onboarding, 60 immigrant workers in the food…
Read moreIntegrating the Essential Skills Tools into the Employment Counselling Process
To ensure newcomers are prepared to participate in Alberta’s dynamic labour market safely and successfully, AWES provided training workshops to 57 employment counsellors in Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer. Participating employment counsellors learned about the essential skills framework, received tools…
Read morePre-Welding Apprenticeship Training Pilot Project
AWES partnered with the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) to determine if a learner’s essential skills levels affect their ability to succeed in pre-apprenticeship training and if adding essential skills into training instruction will impact participant’s success in apprenticeship…
Read moreWorking Faster, Working Safer
To improve workers’ skills for the workplace, AWES created a series of materials and videos for workplace readiness and delivered 12 hours of integrated language, essential skills, and intercultural communication training to 47 CLB level 1-2 workers from five different…
Read moreSkilling UP
In 2013 AWES was invited by the Government of Canada’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) to join a five-year national study on the return on investment of workplace essential skills training. A new performance-based, social finance model never…
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