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TIMMINS
LEARNING
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For Employers
SUPPORTERS
WALL OF RECOGNITION
Workforce
Literacy and Basic Skills
Refers to skills needed by employees at work
- Reading memos, manuals, notes and messages
- Writing reports, memos, notes, messages
- Oral communication with supervisors, fellow employees customers
- Employability Skills Training-Ready for 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
- Florist 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 newsletters and at staff meetings
- Partner with a local literacy agency to provide job specific 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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The
Timmins Learning Centre is funded by the Literacy and Basic Skills Section
of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities,
and is a
community-based, not-for-profit, charitable organization.