Government of Canada Skills Agenda

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Government of Canada Skills Agenda

• Workplace Skills Branch
• Human Resources Skills Development Canada
• Sylvain Brazeau
• Sector Council Program
• October 24, 2005
• Human Resource Sector for Transportation and
  Logistics

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Presentation Outline

• Workplace Skills Strategy
• Existing programs
• New initiatives
• Sector Council Program
• Looking to the future

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Workplace and Labour Market Challenges

• Access to training and upgrading
• Recognition of credentials and skills
• Technological and demographic change
• Increasing competitiveness
• Skills shortages
• Education and required skills sets
• Recruitment and retention

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HR Issues Faced by Employers

• Lack of access to information
• Report shortages of skilled/experienced/trained
  workers
• Lack of HR planning skills and good HR practices
• Insufficient capacity to forecast skill
  requirements or to measure results
• Out-migration of workers

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Skills Lacking in Organizations

• Soft skills
• Technical skills
• Entrepreneurial skills
• Essential skills and literacy skills
• Human resources and general management skills

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Barriers to Developing/Maintaining a Skilled
Workforce

• Operational constraints
• Mismatched skills sets
• Attitude toward training
• Poaching
• Lack of HR and LMI information

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Workplace Skills Strategy

• Vision
• Generate inclusive, sustainable and
  internationally competitive workplaces where
  workers develop and use their skills, knowledge
  and abilities to produce high value products and
  services that will increase the quality of life
  for all Canadians.
• Objectives
• A skilled, adaptable and resilient workforce
• A flexible, efficient labour market
• A responsive strategy to meet employers needs for
  skilled workers

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Workplace Skills Strategy

• Priorities
• Promoting Workplace Skills Development
• Promoting Skills Recognition and Utilization
• Promoting Partnerships, Networks and Information
  Flows

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Workplace Skills Strategy

• Existing programs and activities
• Apprenticeship
• Literacy and Essential Skills
• Foreign Workers and Immigrants
• Tapping the Potential of Aboriginal People
• Sector Council Program

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Workplace Skills Strategy

• New Initiatives
• Trades and Apprenticeship
• Workplace Skills Initiatives
• Workplace Partner Panel

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Sector Council Program

• Sector Councils are independent NGOs that receive
  funding from HRSDC.
• At their core is a partnership of stakeholders
  from a defined area of economic activity.
  Partners include
• Employers/Business
• Unions/Labour
• Industry associations
• Educators
• Government
• Sector Councils address a sectors current and
  anticipated human resource skills challenges
• The Sector Council Program has an annual budget
  of 70M.

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List of Sector Councils

• Aboriginal
• Apparel
• Apprenticeship Forum
• Automotive Manufacturing
• Automotive Repair
• Aviation Maintenance
• Biotechnology
• Child Care
• Contact Centres
• Construction
• Culture
• Environment
• Fish Harvesters
• Food Retail
• Installation, maintenance
• repair

16. International trade 17. Mining 18. Motor
Carrier 19. Petroleum 20. Plastics 21.
Printing 22. Public Policing 23. Trucking 24.
Seafood 25. Software 26. Steel 27.
Technologists 28. Textiles 29. Tourism 30.
Voluntary 31. Wood Manufacturing
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In the pipeline

• Electricity
• Agriculture Agri-food
• Health Sector
• Supply Chain
• Geomatics
• Aerospace manufacturing
• Forestry

• Marine, Ports and Oceans
• Manufacturing
• Packaging
• Retail sector

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Sector Council Activities

• Situational Analysis
• Sector Study
• Career Awareness Products
• Foreign Credential Recognition

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Situational Analysis / Sector Studies

• Situational Analysis
• Reviews and analyses existing information and
  data on a sector or occupation including
  information gaps
• Foundation for a sector study
• Sector Study
• Sector studies are analyses of current and future
  human resources development needs, issues and
  challenges such as the supply and demand of
  skilled labour, the impact of changing
  technology, the need for skills upgrading and the
  adequacy of existing training.
• Together these diagnostics provide the
  intelligence to guide sectoral investments by the
  Government of Canada and the private sector.

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Career Awareness Products Examples from Sector
Councils

• Career information or labour market information
• Career awareness media can include print
  (including posters, brochures and flyers), video,
  CD ROM, web-based, support materials (including
  lesson plans and guides for practitioners), TV,
  radio and other advertisements, games and
  quizzes, paraphernalia such as mouse pads and
  pens with web information
• Wood Manufacturing Council is making
  presentations in high schools
• Trucking Council is distributing information kits
  to career counsellors
• Motor Carrier Council is placing advertisements
  on buses
• Apprenticeship Forum is advertising on Much Music.

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Foreign Credential Recognition

• Councils work to improve processes for the
  assessment and recognition of foreign credentials
  in Canada for both regulated and non-regulated
  occupations in partnership with other federal
  government departments, provinces and
  territories, regulatory bodies, and employers.
• E.g. The Canadian Tourism Human Resources
  Council is conducting research which will lead to
  a model and system to facilitate the recognition
  of foreign credentials for non-regulated
  occupations.

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Examples of Success Stories

• The Canadian Automotive Repair and Service
  Council (CARS) - Interactive Distance Learning
  (IDL) Centre delivers training via satellite to
  auto repair shops across Canada at over 700 sites
• Without IDL, some stores would not provide
  training to their employees.

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Examples of Success Stories

• The Canadian Aviation Maintenance Council (CAMC)
  - Aviation Internships so successful that 83 of
  graduates go on to careers in that sector.

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Examples of Success Stories

• Motor Carrier - Fleetsmart program transit
  authorities that have conducted the training,
  have realized on average a 10 percent saving (on
  fuel consumption)

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Results

• 208 sector studies and labour research projects.
• Sector Council accomplishments in leveraging
  employer commitment and investment in skills
  include
• 6,500 employers offered in-house training as a
  result of efforts by sector councils in last
  three years.
• 3,300 workshops on promoting workplace skills
  were convened attended by 55,000 employers.
• 280 occupational or competency standards.
• 638 sector-specific course or programs of study
  were developed/significantly modified.

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Results (cont.)

• Sector councils accomplishments in increasing
  opportunities for workers to apply new skills
  include
• 43,000 workers took classroom training to meet an
  occupational/competency standard last year
• 29,000 workers took in-house training to meet an
  occupational/competency standard last year and
• 6,500 employers offered in-house training as a
  result of efforts by sector councils in the last
  three years.
• Sector councils have partnerships with
• 293,872 employers.
• 115 labour union groups.
• 182 employer associations.
• 347 other federal and provincial government
  departments.

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SCP Budget
Program Stream Budget 05/06 Budget 06/07 Budget 07/08
EI - Sectoral 39.5M 39.5M 39.5M
EI Youth 4.0M 0M 0
CRF SCP 22.5M 26.5 26.5M
CRF Youth 4.2M 4.2M 4.2M
TOTAL 70.2M 70.2 70.2M