BC Centre for Employment Excellence
For employers in the construction industry looking to hire skilled immigrants. Employers can better understand labour shortage situation in the Northern BC, and learn more about practical steps to hiring immigrants to address this shortage. Continue reading
Employers can use this organizational needs assessment tool to conduct essential skills needs assessment in the workplace. The tool consists of essential skills assessment and assessment results chart. Continue reading
An organizational assessment tool that employers can use to identify the essential skills training needs of their employees. The tool includes instructions for employers on how to collect employee feedback on essential skills, as well as feedback worksheets for employees. Continue reading
Features resources and tools that would help employers recruit and retain employees from diverse backgrounds, including immigrants, people with disabilities, and Aboriginal people. Continue reading
Provides employers with literacy and essential skills program development information. The guide gives instructions on implementing effective literacy and essential skills programs in the workplace, makes a strong business case for improving essential skills of employees, and highlights a number of success stories. 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
A free, online diagnostic tool designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses recruit and retain workers. The tool helps employers review their human resource management practices and further provides resources to employers. Continue reading
Designed to assist small- and medium-sized employers in creating and promoting diversity in the workplace. This guide provides self-assessment tool, tips, and strategies for recruiting, retaining, and accommodating employees with diverse backgrounds. Continue reading
Designed to assist businesses support and employ youth, disconnected youth in particular. This toolkit provides step-by-step instructions on developing skills training programs for youth, self-assessment tools, scoring cards, templates, and links to additional tools and resources. 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
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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Provides employers with strategies to delivering assessment tools and step-by-step tips on implementing essential skills training programs in the workplace. This tool is useful for employers in the trades industry interested in hiring apprentices. Continue reading
A free self-assessment tool that helps both employers and employees/students. This tool allows employees to receive feedbacks from managers and supervisors on their performances and further improves communication between employers and their employees on workplace expectations. 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
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
Designed to help HR practitioners, hiring managers, and employers reach out to skilled immigrants, understand their needs and cultural differences, and promote organizational diversity. The employers and HR professionals may find the assessment tools in this toolkit especially useful when conducting recruitment and hiring processes involving skilled immigrants. Continue reading
Uses essential skills such as communication and workplace culture to assess workplace learning at companies and organizations. The tool provides companies and organizations with information on their needs, strengths and learning gaps in workplace learning. 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
