Succeeding at Work – Employability and Essential Skills for the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Industry, targets under-utilized, under represented, under employed and unemployed Canadians with an opportunity to develop technical, employment and life skills for meaningful, permanent employment in the food and beverage industry while increasing and maintaining a pool of “in Canada job-ready” candidates available to food manufacturing employers to satisfy their various worker needs.
This initiative will target six provinces across Canada. 2 cohorts per year for 3 years.
BRITISH COLUMBIA ALBERTA MANITOBA ONTARIO NEW BRUNSWICK NOVA SCOTIA
The Succeeding at Work program seeks to evaluate effectiveness of pre and post employment training and non-traditional training supports on long term employment. Strong emphasis on measuring participant knowledge and literacy levels pre-program, providing literacy and learning supports during the program and measuring participant post program levels of literacy and knowledge. Succeeding at Work offers a ground- breaking number of personal management, or life skills, workplace technical training along with employability skills. The program seeks to provide quantitative and qualitative data as to the aggregate effect of integrated training on employment retention levels. Does the pathway to successful long-term employment rely on more than workplace skills training? What are key participant and employer roles post employment? In addition, the evaluation will assess how systemic barriers in the target demographics manifest differently depending on cultural background, immigration history, family composition and literacy levels. The proponent will place importance on assessment of the extent to which the integrated training model has been implemented as anticipated, and its contributions towards outcomes and impacts achieved.
Our goal will be to understand the extent to which the program activities are contributing to achieve long term employment success, and how they could be adjusted to make an even larger contribution to a sustainable skilled labour pool for the food and beverage manufacturing industry.
