FOR EMPLOYERS
Workforce Literacy and Basic Skills
Refers to skills needed by employees at work.
- Reading memos, manuals, notes and messages
- Writing reports, memos, notes and messages
- Oral communication with supervisors, fellow employees, customers
- Employablility SkillsTraining - Ready Work Curriculum,
Employability Success Workshop - TLC assists clients with essential
skill development: Reading text, document use and numeracy.
Timmins Learning Centre can help current and future employees
improve their workplace skills. It can also provide job specific
training for the following entry level occupations:
- Retail / cashier
- Labourers / skilled trade helpers
- Floral Assistant
- Nanny caregiver
- Food service industry
- Health care curriculum
- Chambermaid
- Hospitality Industry
- Landscaping and Grounds maintenance
- Forestry worker
- Hunting and Fishing guide
- Pet groomer
- Security guard
- Laundromat Worker
What can employers do?
- Inform employees about training opportunities.
- Provide financial support to a local literacy program
- Make literacy an issue in newspapers and staff meetings
- Partner with a local literacy agency to provide specific job
training
- Provide a flexible work schedule for those employees who wish to
attend a literacy program to improve their workforce skills.
For more information contact Allison Kozlow.
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