Project - Integrating Essential Skills into
Human Resources practices in the workplace
Project funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
February 2006 to December 2007
Project Report Executive Summary (Adobe PDF)
Purpose of the project
The primary purpose of this project was to encourage Canadian companies and the Canadian workforce to rely on Essential Skills (ES) as a means of continually updating employees' skills of the employees. The project also strived to expand the practical knowledge of ES practitioners in colleges and institutes to make them more effective in their collaboration with partners to implement ES in the workplace.
Project activities
This project ran from February 1 2006 to December 31 2007. It consisted of four main components:
- Consolidate the practices of ES practitioners in colleges and institutes and develop specific approaches to the use of tools in various business situations;
- Promote the importance of implementing ES in the workplace, especially for the use of instruments to measure workers' skills;
- Apply instruments to measure ES in certain industries and draw up ES development plans; and,
- Share the best practices in the implementation of ES assessment tools in the workplace with other colleges and institutes in Canada.
Outcomes achieved
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Training sessions and training and promotional materials for college practitioners to use when approaching businesses.
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Over 300 Canadian industries and their employees are aware of ES;
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Over 100 companies have benefited from free ES assessments or access to tests;
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Dozens of businesses and their employees have integrated ES approaches;
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3,000 copies of a guide for marketing and selling ES to industry by colleges and institutes have been distributed.
- The executive summary of the project's final report is now available - the executive summary includes the report's conclusions and recommendations.
