Skills for Success Work Ready Youth Program

Workbooks

• Numeracy Workbook (Updated)
• Reading Workbook (Updated)
• Writing Workbook (Updated)
• Problem Solving Workbook (coming soon)
• Adaptability (coming soon)
• Collaboration Workbook (coming soon)
• Communication Workbook (coming soon)
• Creativity and Innovation (coming soon)
• Continuous Learning Workbook (discontinued)
• Document Use Workbook (discontinued)
• Power Point Presentation

• Profiles of over 40 different trade and technology careers.
• Summary of the Skills for Success for the workplace.
• A comprehensive set of questions that can be completed on average in 15-20 minutes. Results are provided as a star rating link to careers in trade and technology sectors.
• Social Media features for users to share their results with friends, teachers and parents. Students can post and compare their results to see how their friends are performing and progressing. Teachers can use the App as a classroom tool.
• A link to the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) Office of Literacy and Essential skills with access to all the National Occupational Profiles. Results can be compared against the levels of complexity in the ESDC profiles for specific skilled trade careers.
• A directory of all trade and technology schools and training facilities in Canada.

The Skills for Success Mobile App is designed for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod Touch® and android devices and is currently available free for download in the App Store and Google Play.

Test your Skills for Success on your computer browser using the desktop version of our Skills for Success app.

Choose to download the Skills for Success App on to your computer to use it offline or access it directly through your internet browser. (Internet required)

FAQs

What is a Skill for Success? 

A Skill for Success is a necessary developed ability or capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained efforts to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas, things, and/or people.

Why are these Skills “for success”?

The Skills for Success are the skills that people need for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills.

Why are Skills for Success important to industry?

These skills are used in nearly every job and at different levels of complexity and they enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.

Skills for Success and the Trades

Good Skills for Success means you will understand and remember concepts introduced in technical training. The level of Skills for Success required for most trades is as high or higher that it is for many office jobs. Skills for Success are used in nearly every job and at different levels of complexity. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.  The following 9 skills have been identified and validated as key Skills for Success for the workplace.

Skills Canada CEO Shaun Thorson talks about the impact of the Skills for Success in the skilled trades.