Guided Pathways: Integrating Skills for Success
About the project The Guided Pathways project, led by AWES, transformed career development practices across Canada by teaching Career Development Practitioners (CDPs) how to integrate Skills for Success (SFS) into employment counseling. Running from 2019 to 2024, the project was…
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 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 moreMcCain’s Workplace Essential Skills Training
McCain Foods reached out to AWES for training opportunities and an organizational needs assessment. McCain’s Human Resources, supervisors, and employees contributed to the assessment, which revealed a need for targeted training in five key areas: workplace communication, document use, writing,…
Read moreEMC Manufacturing Essentials Project
As part of their initiative to help manufacturers become more competitive in the labour market and increase productivity, Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) requested AWES to provide guidelines for developing tools to assess and measure skills’ improvement and growth in…
Read moreDigitizing Workplace Resources – Expanding Success
Newcomers often face barriers to accessing mainstream training for the workplace. AWES and Trajectory IQ Software (TIQ) digitized several essential skills, language, and intercultural resources to create Skills for Work, AWES’ first game-based training resource. Skills for Work is an…
Read moreGuided Pathways: Integrating essential skills
Guided Pathways is a fully funded national project that is equipping career practitioners with practical tools to integrate Skills for Success into practice to better assess clients’ skills and match clients to job opportunities that align with their skills strengths.…
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