Making an Impression: CPISCs First Year

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Making an ImpressionCPISCs First Year

• CPIA Conference
• November 8, 2007

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Presentation Overview

• What is CPISC
• Key Objectives
• Building Blocks for the Future - Three Year
  Research Plan
• Informing Future Decisions
• Training for the Future
• Skills for the Future
• Recruiting and Retaining for the Future
• Next Steps
• How to Get Involved

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What is CPISC?

• One of over 30 Sector Councils currently in
  operation
• Funded by the Department of Human Resources and
  Social Development (HRSDC)
• Officially incorporated in April 2006
• Brings together employers, employees, unions,
  suppliers, education and government
• Meet current and future human resource
  development needs of the industry

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Key Objectives

• Provide a national forum for collaboration
• CPISC as a sought after source for labour market
  intelligence to aid decision making
• Assume a leadership role in skills development
• Creation of national skill standards
• Development of relevant training tools and
  resources
• Improve the image of the industry as a career
  destination with an emphasis on recruitment and
  retention

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Building Blocks for the Future Three Year
Research Plan

• Informing Future Decisions
• Developing Labour Market Information
• Training for the Future
• A Compendium of Training Programs and Providers
• Skills for the Future
• National Skill Standards and Occupational Profiles

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Informing Future Decisions

• Developing Labour Market Information
• Up to date statistical and anecdotal information
  about the printing industry
• Skills and Technology roadmap for the industry
• Outcomes
• Baseline data to allow CPISC to track changes and
  respond to future HR needs
• Consistent labour market information about the
  sector
• Inform human resource planning by helping
  employers and employees make HR decisions
• Consensus view on new market opportunities and
  critical technologies
• Support informed strategic technology investment

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Timelines

• Labour Market Information
• PIA Quarterly Market Survey October 2007
• Statistics Canada Data
• Completion Date March 31, 2008
• Skills and Technology roadmap for the industry
• Three Phased Study
• September 2007-September 2008
• Looking for representatives to sit on our various
  Working Groups

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Training for the Future

• Objectives
• Review existing education and training programs
  offered by institutions, private training
  providers, unions, suppliers and printing
  companies
• Compile a Compendium of Programs
• Identify training gaps and barriers
• Explore range of training options
• Outcomes
• Ability to map programs against skill standards
• Make adjustments to existing training programs
• Maintain an ongoing dialogue between industry and
  training providers
• Implement a range of training and apprenticeship
  options
• Release Date
• November 8, 2007 at Graphics Canada Trade Show

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Skills for the Future

• Need for agreed upon standards to inform and
  support quality training and retraining and
  provide links between employees and employers and
  training providers
• Clear skill standards will define what an
  employee should know and be able to do

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CPISC Approach to Standards

• Development of skill standards that mirrors the
  way the industry is organized and functions
• Three types of skill standards
• Essential Skills
• Core Skills
• Operating Skills
• Developed for each process area
• Pre-press
• Press
• Finishing/ Bindery
• Basis upon which to develop occupational profiles

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Outcomes

• Current Workers
• Portable credential
• Tool for assessing knowledge and skills and
  identifying training needs
• Employers
• Reliable gauge of employee proficiency
• Can be used to assess and modify in-house
  training
• Learners
• Use skill Standards to better understand career
  pathways
• Education and Training Providers
• Basis for revising curriculum
• Closer relationship between industry and education

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Timelines

• Essential and Core Skill Standards
• Project ends December 31, 2007
• Press Skill Standards
• Project ends March 31,2008
• Standards to be announced at CPISC Forum, June 08
• Pre-Press
• Project starts April 1, 2008
• Finishing/Bindery
• Project starts April 1, 2008

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Recruiting and Retaining for the Future

• Making Printing and Graphic Communications a
  Career of Choice
• Attracting individuals to the industry is a key
  challenge
• Difficult to recruit new employees or to train
  existing employees until clear skill standards
  have been developed, career pathways identified
  and effective and responsive training programs
  put in place
• Interim Measures
• Tools to assist in recruitment process
• Brochure on career in the industry
• Generic Power Point presentation for use in
  schools

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Next Steps Building on the Foundation

• Informing Future Decisions
• Industry Profile Environmental Scan
• Education for the Future
• Needs Analysis
• Skill Standards
• Review of Certification and Apprenticeship Models
• Recruiting and Retaining
• Virtual Tour of Printing Industry

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How You Can Get Involved

• Project Working Groups
• Focus Groups
• Validation Process for both Standards and
  Profiles

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Questions

• How to Contact Us
• m.eveline_at_cpisc-csic.ca
• 1-888-688-0293
• Visit our Website
• www.cpisc-csic.ca