Features and Benefits
- Unique Trades oriented program - designed by tradespeople to help tradespeople
- Tested and approved by trades experts as an effective employment assistance tool
- Our intuitive and easy to use program is entirely web based - No CD's or special software to install!
- All information is securely and conveniently stored on our web based server, accessible to you from any location
Interactive Profiling Tool
- Build a trades portfolio of prior learning that includes a percentage of the current level of completion [show me]
- Identify skills that need to be learned / upgraded in order to achieve trades certification (Provincial or Red Seal)
- Identify other trades in which current skills may be transferable to achieve broader employment opportunities [show me]
- Full colour skill charts created for every trade from National and Provincial apprenticeship standards (DACUMS) [show me]
Trade and Sector Information
- Comprehensive trades resource including data from Red Seal, NOC, HRSDC, Ellis Chart, jobfutures.ca, and more
- Printable trade information from many sources:
- Full colour skill charts [show me]
- Labour market infomation provided by jobfutures.ca
- Similar trades
- Educational / certification requirments
- 75 trades occupational profiles, 15 industry sectors and over 7000 individual skills cataloged [show me]
Essential Skills
- Skills needed for work, learning and life
- Provide the foundation for learning all other skills that enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change
- Effective profiling of essential skills proficiency levels for:
- Reading Text
- Document Use
- Writing Text
- Numeracy
- Oral Communication
- Thinking Skills
- Computer Use
- Determine essential skills gaps that may be interfering with certification
- Provide web links to essential skill building resources (exercises, methods, tips, etc)
- Essential skills component currently being tested in Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island (To be released spring 2006)
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