Skilled Trades
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Creating a Microlearning Model for the Canadian Mining Industry
Using an existing competency framework from the Mining Industry Human Resources Council, and extensive input from front-line workers and supervisors, this project developed 10 microlearning modules and accompanying coaching supports on behaviour-based safety and communication.
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Skills Matching and Opportunities in Wood Manufacturing
The Wood Manufacturing Council (WMC), with support from the Signal49 Research, launched the Skills Matching and Opportunities in Wood Manufacturing project to address the gap between job seekers’ desires for viable and desirable career transitions and the recruitment challenges faced by the wood manufacturing sector.
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Skills, Explore, Achieve, Revive (SOAR)
Have questions about our work? Do you need access to a report in English or French? Please contact communications@fsc-ccf.ca. How to Cite This ReportChan, G.,...
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Construct: Building Inclusive Pathways to Employment in the Skilled Trades
The construction sector continues to face skilled labour shortages, while many people experiencing poverty, housing instability, discrimination, or limited access to formal training remain excluded from the kinds of jobs that could support longer-term economic and housing stability. In Ontario, Blue Door Support Services developed Construct to respond to these intersecting issues through a rapid skilled trades training model.
Research
Skills needs for mass timber production and adoption in British Columbia
Stakeholders in British Columbia are exploring the potential of mass timber, an engineered wood product used as a building material, to drive economic growth in a number of industries. A thriving mass timber sector could help generate novel opportunities for many forestry communities (that are currently experiencing a decline), as well as help build sustainable housing in the province.
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Building the skills of the trucking industry for the future
Have questions about our work? Do you need access to a report in English or French? Please contact communications@fsc-ccf.ca. How to Cite This ReportNoumi, C.,...
Research
Skills needs for workers in the growing plant-based protein industry in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
These reports provide insight into the skills needs for workers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan’s growing plant-based protein industry, especially around value-added agricultural manufacturing, and what steps can be taken by government, industry, and educational institutions to support workers.
State of Skills
Innovation in Training, Recruitment and Upskilling for Skilled Trades
Canada needs to address long standing shortages of skilled tradespeople to advance policy priorities around decarbonization, affordable housing and transforming industry to add more value to what we produce.
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Skills for innovation: International case studies
Have questions about our work? Do you need access to a report in English or French? Please contact communications@fsc-ccf.ca. How to Cite This ReportCuento, M....