Workforce Connex

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• Workforce Connex
• Nova Scotia Forum
• Supply and Demand
• Trucking Industry

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• Next 8 minutes you will learn about
• Driver shortage facing trucking industry
• Economic impact driver shortage has on day to day
  living
• One Journey partnership and relationship to
  Essential Skills / Department of Education
• Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to Occupations
  in the Trucking Industry

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• Driver Shortage
• - 1100 new entrants Nova Scotia
• - 37,000 new entrants Canada
• - between 200 250 new entrants annually to
  private truck driver training colleges in NS

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• Economic impact
• Lack of skilled drivers potential lack of
  company growth
• 90 of all consumable goods coming into and
  going out of Atlantic Canada is done by truck
• Every 3 seconds a tractor trailer unit crosses
  the US border and is a multi billion dollar
  industry

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• One Journey Trucking Work and Learn Partnership
• Industry recognized they needed to be part of the
  solution
• Project Team included Department of Community
  Services, Department of Education, Trucking
  Industry employers (Armour Transportation,
  Eassons, Sunbury Transport), DCS clients, Future
  Worx / Career Works Nova, private training
  industry and THRSC

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• Project phases orientation with employers, one
  week job readiness, four weeks essential skills,
  12 weeks of skills development with end goal
  being employment
• Test of Workplace Essential Skills testing
  specifically for the trucking industry was
  developed through the national Canadian Trucking
  Human Resource Council (pre employment for new
  entrants / test for professional driver /
  dispatcher / safety personel)
• Three main essential skills focused in testing is
  reading comprehension, document use and numeracy

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• Measuring success
• Of the original group of 8 5 are employed using
  their Class 1 drivers license 1 is completing
  their work experience and 2 did not complete all
  phases of the training (one for medical reasons /
  one due to nerves, but has since found employment
  and attributes personal success to growth during
  essential skills training)

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• Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to Occupations
  in Trucking Industry
• Recognize one strategy will not work for all
  equity groups
• Current initiative similar to One Journey
  format in partnership with Trucking Industry /
  Trucking Sector Council and APTEC

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• Questions?