Employment

Casino Skills for Working with Others -Essential Skills for the Gaming Industry:This workbook provides a review of the general, underlying working with others skills required by most gaming occupations.

Computer Use Tip Sheet:
Practical keyboard shortcuts and tips to help improve computer use skills.

Oral Communication Tip Sheet: This tool provides practical tips to help improve oral communication skills.

Working with Others Tip Sheet: This tool provides practical tips to help improve working with others skills.

Document Use Tip Sheet: This tool provides practical tips to help improve document use skills.

Brighter Futures Project: Building on Family Literacy Programs by Incorporating Essential Skills: This manual includes sections on computer use and numeracy.  Each contains activities, lists of required materials and links to online resources.

Problem Solved – A Guide for Employees and Learners:This tool provides advice and exercises to help you improve your problem solving skills.

Essential Skills Portfolio:Develop your own essential skills portfolio, which allows you to record and track your skill strengths and identify areas for improvement.

Managerial Essential Skills

Mentoring and Essential Skills:This tool helps employers and practitioners suport the development of essential skills in the workplace through mentoring.

Self-Assessments

Essential Skills Self-Assessment for the Trades:Strong essential skills are required for success in apprenticeship training and for a career in the trades. Complete this self-assessment to learn about your strengths and areas in need of improvement.

General Self-Assessment:Summer in Smallywood essential skills learning series:

Working with Others Self-Assessment:This self-assessment helps you understand your strengths and areas in need of improvement.

How do your Skills Measure Up? Test three essential skills, reading text, document use and numeracy, by working through this
assessment tool.

Formal Assessments

TOWES (Test of Workplace Essential Skills): TOWES assessments and products adhere to a high standard
of quality that offers solutions to assessment, consulting and analysis, professional development, and training.

CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment): CAMERA is a series of standardized tests that provide placement and diagnostic information about your abilities to manage workplcae communitcation and numeracy tasks.

Indicators and Checklists

Essential Skills Indicator: This indicator helps promote a better understanding of your essential
skill levels. A series of short quizzes will indicate skill strengths
and areas in need of improvement.

Continuous Learning Self-Assessment: This checklist will help you identify which actions you currently take to strengthen your skills and increase your knowledge.

Working with Others Self-Assessment: Find out how well you work with others in three areas, working independently, working with a team and working in a leadershop role, by taking this quiz.

Older Workers

Spotlight on Change: An Essential Skills Upgrading Program for Women over 40 – Worksheets

Entrepreneurs

Essential Skills for Entrepreneurs

Job Seeking Techniques

Essential Skills to Search for Jobs:These resources were develpoped for people who want to look for employment while strengthening their essential skills. 

Third Quarter: Matching people and their skills to the right jobs.