Activity Booklets

Contact your local Skills/Compétences Canada office nearest you. Their staff would be happy to help you organize a classroom presentation about skilled trades for your students.

Information about Skills For Success

Activity 1 : Cooking
Activity 2 : Electrical Installations
Activity 3 : Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Activity 4 : Hairstyling
Activity 5 : Carpentry
Activity 6 : Graphic Design
Activity 7 : Automation and Control

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.