BC Centre for Employment Excellence
The YWCA Metro Vancouver created the Mentorship Best Practices Toolkit based on the insights gained from operating the NextStep Mentorship Program, which operated from 2014 to 2017. In the toolkit, aspects of creating, sustaining and enhancing mentoring relationships and programs … Continue reading
In 2011, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) introduced the work experience program (WE) to help young unemployed people get valuable work-based skills and the practical experience they need to secure a job. The program consisted of a … Continue reading
One in six young people in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries is not in employment, education or training, and of these, two-thirds are not actively looking for work, thus raising both immediate and longer-term challenges for individuals … Continue reading
Employment programs often do not work as intended owing to behavioural responses of clients to different aspects of the programs. For example, some people do not participate in all available services offered by a program, or others drop out of … Continue reading
Major changes in the economy are causing significant disruptions in Canadians’ working lives. Many Canadian workers are facing the threat of losing their jobs to automation in the next decade, having their full-time positions replaced with short-term/ temporary ones, and/or … Continue reading
Improving youth school-to-work (STW) transitions is an important, though challenging, way of reducing high unemployment, underemployment and precarious employment among youth. This report by Donnalee Bell, Krista Benes and Dave Redekop of Life-Role Development Group Ltd. identifies the causes of … Continue reading
A growing need for a skilled workforce in the face of rapid changes in technology and the economy is increasing the pressure for effective and efficient employment and training services. Two of the US’s largest employment and training programs are … Continue reading
Job search assistance is a key component of employment supports offered to job seekers. However, little is known about how one might advise job seekers in the process and what advice should be delivered. This research study is focused on … Continue reading
