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Essential Skills
Career Essentials training builds a solid foundation of Essential Skills -- the fundamental skills that make it possible to learn all others. These are the enabling skills that help people to participate fully in the workplace and in the community.
Job tasks performed by our students
The following are some of the job tasks that our students can perform:
- faxing
- photocopying
- data entry
- labelling
- ordering
- answering phones
- greeting customers
- sales
- operating a cash register
- inventory
- writing letters
- security
- light deliveries
- and MORE!
Job opportunities
The following are some of the jobs that our graduates have been able to pursue through placements and full-time employment:
- attendants
- call centre agents
- cashiers/store clerks
- customer service representatives
- entry-level IT/ technology
- gas bar attendants
- greeters
- inventory or purchasing clerks
- health care staff
- hotel clerks
- light assemblers
- office clerks
- security guards/gate attendants
- sales clerks
About our students
- adults, typically 40-60 years in age
- carefully screened to ensure they meet professional standards
- prepared to perform job-related tasks
- active participants in job placement programs
- trained to meet the Essential Skills required for your jobs, as defined by Service Canada
Career Essentials follows up with every employer to ensure they are satisfied with our graduates.
About our unpaid work placements (co-op)
- Eligible adult students qualify for several weeks of FREE employment (through an unpaid co-op work placement) as part of their work experience training program. Receive extra assistance in almost any major city across Ontario.
- Hundreds of candidates have been placed to date.
- You are under no obligation or commitment to hire placement students. But many are available for paid employment after the placement term ends -- after they have demonstrated the strong contributions that they can make.
- Placement students have workplace insurance.
- Students continue in-school training as part of our integrated work training program. Learning objectives are enhanced to match the duties you would like them to perform.