Government of Canada Skills Agenda

1. 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

2. Presentation Outline • Workplace Skills Strategy Existing programs New initiatives • Sector Council Program Looking to the future

3. 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

4. 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

5. Skills Lacking in Organizations • Soft skills • Technical skills • Entrepreneurial skills • Essential skills and literacy skills • Human resources and general management skills

6. Barriers to Developing/Maintaining a Skilled Workforce • Operational constraints • Mismatched skills sets • Attitude toward training • Poaching • Lack of HR and LMI information

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. Workplace Skills Strategy New Initiatives: • Trades and Apprenticeship • Workplace Skills Initiatives • Workplace Partner Panel

12. 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 sector’s current and anticipated human resource & skills challenges • The Sector Council Program has an annual budget of $70M.

13. 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

14. In the pipeline • Electricity • Agriculture & Agri-food • Health Sector • Supply Chain • Geomatics • Aerospace manufacturing • Forestry • Marine, Ports and Oceans • Manufacturing • Packaging • Retail sector

15. Sector Council Activities • Situational Analysis • Sector Study • Career Awareness Products • Foreign Credential Recognition

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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)

22. 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.

23. 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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