Shaping the Future: How Skills for Trades Benefits Employers

Skills for Trades is a vocationally focused adult program tailored to skilled trades apprentices and workers to achieve their vocational, learning, and life goals. Skills for Trades equips individuals with a comprehensive and individualized learning profile, based on prescriptive assessments, interventions, mentorship, and assistive technology tools, to support them in pre-employment training and trades certification.  

Skills for Trades learners receive specialized training to develop key educational and workplace skills, including communication, problem-solving, organization, and resilience under pressure. They arrive on the job with confidence and strategies needed to contribute, adapt, and succeed.  

Employer Benefits

Certification Preparedness 

Skills for Trades learners gain confidence and strategies to successfully complete exams and certification requirements, helping ensure competency in their trade.

Efficient and Professional Work Habits

Skills for Trades learners develop strong organizational skills, effective time management, and strategies to manage workplace stress effectively. 

Work-Ready Technical Skills

Skills for Trades learners develop essential trade-related skills, including numeracy, reading, and written communication, supporting everyday tasks and long-term career growth.  

Stronger Communication and Teamwork

Skills for Trades learners are better equipped to manage workplace interactions and handle challenges collaboratively.

Retention and Growth 

By combining workplace skills with practical learning strategies, Skills for Trades produces adaptable and resilient workers who are more likely to succeed and stay in the long term.

Interested in supporting the Skills for Trades program? 

• Sponsor employees to participate in the program.  
• Hire Skills for Trades learners who are trained for success.  
• Collaborate with Learn. Develop. Succeed. to strengthen your workforce pipeline. 
• Contribute to our bursary fund to help us provide affordable programs. 

– Becky Bishop, Senior Manager, Youth and Adult Programs

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