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Given that up to a half of individuals who receive treatment for substance abuse will relapse–most within a year, this post by Social Solutions Global, an American human services management software company, highlights three important research-based strategies to ensure effective … Continue reading
This comprehensive inventory of essential skills initiatives aimed at First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples was developed through a collaboration between the Canadian Career Development Foundation, Employment and Social Development Canada’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, the Assembly of … Continue reading
Developed to help internationally educated professionals (IEPs) self-assess their knowledge about Canadian workplace, communication, and competencies. This is a great resource for career practitioners working with immigrant clients who want to find employment in the ICT sector. Continue reading
For individuals who want to explore career in trades. Career practitioners may utilize this self-assessment to help clients find more about their strengths and weaknesses in nine essential skills that are critical for apprenticeship training. Continue reading
Helps career practitioners conduct an informal assessment of their clients’ essential skill level to ensure their clients receive appropriate skills training and support. Continue reading
An online interactive resource for job seekers and for anyone who wants to learn and improve their skills in technology, reading and math. Clients can access modules that include videos, diagrams, worksheets and quizzes on the site. Continue reading
An assessment tool career practitioners can use with clients to find out which occupation best matches their clients’ skills set. This easy-to-use tool is comprised of questions based on 35 different skills. Continue reading
Designed to help individuals who are interested in a career in the transportation trades. By using this tool, individuals can explore a new career option by learning more about their interests and skills that are pertinent to the transportation trades. Continue reading
A career self-management and planning guide that career practitioners may use to assist employees working for small and medium-sized businesses reflect on their career and plan for the future. Continue reading
Provides free, online assessment tools for individuals who are interested in self-employment. The website also offers pros and cons of starting own businesses, myths and realities, and answers to questions that people may have about self-employment and entrepreneurship. Continue reading
Designed to assist job seekers through the career planning process. Career practitioners may find this guide useful when helping their clients achieve their career goals by planning their careers and discovering more about themselves. Continue reading
Offers free, online self-assessment tests and resources for job seekers to review and further build on their essential skills. Three assessment tests focus on essential skills in reading, document use and numeracy. Career practitioners may work through the tests and learning plans with their clients. Continue reading
Allows job seekers to learn about their entrepreneurial potential by assessing aptitudes, traits, motivations, and attitudes. Career practitioners can use this tool to help their clients who are interested in self-employment find out if starting and running their own business would be the best career choice. Continue reading
Offers free, online essential skills assessment tools for career practitioners to use with their clients, The website features Essential Skills 3G, an assessment tool that is interactive and complete with essential skills descriptions for over 90 occupations. Continue reading
Provides free, online assessment tools for career practitioners to use with their clients. The website consists of eight assessment tools, each focusing on different aspects of career decision-making including career preferences and coping with career decision-making difficulties. Continue reading
Designed to help apprentices in their training and in the workplace by illustrating essential skills that are required to work in trades occupations. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners with self-assessment materials that they can use to assist clients in their career planning process. This easy-to-use handbook is for those who want to find out what they can do and what they want to achieve in their career by identifying their skills and abilities. Continue reading
Provides interactive assessment exercises that career practitioners can use with their clients. These exercises cover topics on values, interests, skills, goals, and action planning. Continue reading
A tool that career practitioners can use to keep track of their clients’ progress in essential skills development. This tool includes essential skills and competencies checklists, and short descriptions of essential skills. Continue reading
Designed to assist job seekers who are interested in self-employment. Career practitioners can use the Small Business Readiness Assessment guide to help their clients explore self-employment as a career option, and test their clients’ readiness for starting a small business. Continue reading
Designed to measure second language proficiency of immigrants based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB). Career practitioners can utilize this tool to identify their immigrant clients’ level of English language proficiency and finding them an appropriate language training. Continue reading
An online self-assessment tool that allows job seekers to identify their strengths, and test whether they are employment ready. The feedback, action planning, and program planning functions of the tool may be useful for career practitioners. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners with resources and materials they can use to help their clients maintain their jobs. The book includes step-by-step guide on how to keep jobs, tools for assessing personal and work skills, case studies, checklists, and tip sheets. Continue reading
Designed to assist career practitioners working with youth, including youth with disabilities. The guide helps youth-serving practitioners understand learning disabilities in youth and learn more about the support programs and existing research. Continue reading
Allows youth job seekers to assess their own skills and discover new careers in BC. Career practitioners may utilize this tool with their young clients to find information about education requirements, salaries, and job responsibilities. Continue reading
Provides internationally educated professionals with language assessment tool and information about working in Canada’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Career practitioners working with skilled immigrant clients may find this tool useful. Continue reading
Helps youth with disabilities, or anyone who is having a hard time finding a job, explore self-employment option. This easy-to-use toolkit provides checklist, exercises, and step-by-step instructions complete with information on self-employment. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners with assessment tools and training materials. Career practitioners can use the tools and training materials to develop training programs based on the essential skills strengths and weaknesses of their clients while employers can use the resources to provide essential skills training for their employees at work. Continue reading
A tool that helps people explore career options in the trades. While this is a self-assessment tool, career practitioners may utilize this tool for assessing their clients’ essential skills and trade skills that are required for apprenticeship training. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners and employers with tools and resources that would help people with vision loss find employment. Information on career development process and pre-employment programme trainer’s manual are available for career practitioners while employers can find tips and information that addresses employers’ concerns of hiring and working with people who are blind. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners and employers with useful tools and resources they can utilize to help job seekers and workers. In addition to assessment tools, descriptions of different essential skills and occupations are available on the website.
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Contains assessment tools, exercises, and quizzes that are useful to career practitioners. These exercises and quizzes help youths and adult job seekers explore different occupations, discover their abilities, reflect on their experiences, create career plan, and more. Continue reading
A website that is intended to assist career practitioners with tools and resources that would enhance existing career development programs. The Blueprint outlines career development competencies as well as stages of the learning taxonomy. Continue reading
Designed to help people improve their essential skills while looking for jobs. Each of the seven workbooks contains definitions of skills, essential skills checklist and tips, activities as well as case studies that would assist job seekers in their job search. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners with essential skills tools they can use with their clients. The toolkit consists of tools such as job posting, resume, and computer use tools, tip sheets, checklists, and workshop guide on the SCALES Literacy and Essential Skills. Continue reading
Provides tools that help career practitioners and employers learn more about the importance of essential skills at workplace and assist job seekers in applying essential skills at work. Various tools are available for increasing awareness of essential skills, assessing essential skills, and for developing training. Continue reading
A free self-assessment tool based on a matrix of work-related competencies that helps job seekers identify priority competencies that would be most important to them. Employers and practitioners may use the tool to help employees and clients discover their strengths and weaknesses in certain competencies. Continue reading
Developed to help adult learners build on their essential skills that are developed through the leisure/home-based activities and apply them at work. The kit has tips and tools for career practitioners to use including activities on essential skills that can be incorporated into their own programs. Continue reading
An assessment tool that is designed to assess the on-the-job learning at workplace based on essential skills and other measures such as workplace culture and accomodation to diversity and culture. The tool includes rubrics for each skill measured for both employers and career practitioners to use. Continue reading
An assessment tool that can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, interests, and values as well as explore occupations and set goals. In six steps, the tool assists students and job seekers in conducting self-assessment, making the right career decisions, marketing oneself, and strategically planning life and work. Continue reading
A self-assessment tool that allows users to find out their essential skills levels in numeracy, document use, reading, continuous learning, and working with others. Career practitioners may use pre-test and post-test functions with their clients as initial assessment, ongoing and/or exit assessment of skill levels to test if the skills have improved. Continue reading
Provides career practitioners working with adults with assessment tools and resources on numeracy and literacy skills, job skills, and adult learning. This website offers interactive online games for assessment as well as worksheets and videos. Continue reading
An online assessment tool that tests reading, writing, numeracy, and basic computer skills and is available for adult learners to use it with career practitioners. The tool is especially useful for initial assessment of learner’s skill level but it can be used at any point during the assessment process. Continue reading
Provides resources to immigrant workers preparing to work in Canadian workplaces and helps them understand Canadian culture at work. This tool is particularly useful for career practitioners working with immigrants. The tool includes four modules that are designed to help newcomers understand cultural differences at work. Continue reading
A skills assessment tool that is designed to help people interested in the trades develop essential skills that are pertinent to have a successful career in trades. Outlines of essential skills used in specific trades occupations and different assessments available for each trade make it easy for individuals to focus and see how essential skills can be applied to specific trades. Continue reading
A practical tool equipped with self-assessment test function that allows students and workers to assess their essential skills level and practice the skills they need to improve on. Career practitioners and employment counsellors can utilize this tool to help their clients identify their strengths and weaknesses in their skill areas. Continue reading
An Essential Skills assessment tool that is specially designed to prepare people for entry level jobs. Working with a trained facilitator, people can use this tool as means to find out which occupation is best suited for them based on his/her personality, interest and skills. Continue reading
