WorkBC

Employment bridging for immigrants:

• Assessment of skills, qualifications and experience
• Career assessment and career planning
• Job-related skill enhancement, including workplace language upgrading
• Enhancement of qualifications and experience to B.C. labour market standards
• Workplace practice, including mentorship

Financial assistance:

• $800 bursary for students with a course load greater than 40%
• $400 bursary for students with a course load less than 40%

• Assessment to recognize competencies – currently includes Cooks trade qualification

• Apprenticeship technical training blending face-to-face institutional instruction with online learning

May include:

• Job coaching and assessment by qualified trades people
• Trades training
• Matching of job-ready immigrants and employers
• Workplace language, essential skills and trade-related technical skills
• Career planning, workplace orientation, and mentorship

• Enhanced entry-level programs for Aboriginal people
• Integrates literacy, numeracy and other essential skills into technical training
• Trades training
• Job placement
• Certification

Trades training for women:

• Needs/skills assessment
• Essential skills and practical skilled trades training
• Registration in a foundation program and as an apprentice
• Job matching
• Additional supports may include childcare and mentoring

May include:

• Employment supports such as skill assessment, employment counselling, job finding clubs, and resume writing
• Short-term certificate training
• Business skills including self-employment supports
• Occupation-specific skills
• Preparation for working in the trades
• Essential skills upgrading

May include:

• Matching women with experienced, successful mentors
• Guidance and encouragement to access employment/find a job
• Some training options available

• Assessment and employment counselling for workers in forestry dependent communities
• Job readiness and job search assistance
• Workplace skills training/upgrading and job coaching
• Financial supports (e.g., transportation, equipment, tools)

Skills for entry-level employment:

• Introduction to stages of mining
• Occupational health and safety, first aid
• Mineral exploration skills
• Environmental monitoring in mining
• Diversity and leadership training
• Essential skills
• Career planning

Employment-related training and support for youth:

• Life skills training
• Job readiness skills
• Certification courses (e.g., WHMIS, WCB Awareness, First Aid Level 1)
• Job coaching and support 24 hr/day, 7 days/wk
• Workplace communication

• Essential skills assessment and training
• Essential Skills are: reading, document use, numeracy, writing, spoken communication, working with others, continuous learning, thinking skills, computer skills

Employment-related support and training for immigrants:

• Career planning/development
• Employment counselling and services
• Job readiness and assessment
• Essential skills
• Workplace training

• Pre-employment training for Aboriginal people (i.e., job-readiness, employability skills, job training, assessment)
• Work experience/on-the-job training
• Job coaching

Self-employment training for Aboriginal people:

• 12-session entrepreneurship training series designed to help participants identify viable business ideas and determine their feasibility.
• May also include help to conduct market research, write a business plan, and explore financing options.

• Programs range from basic employment skills to advanced occupational skills training, to ease entry/re-entry into the job market

Employment-related support and training for older workers. May include:

• Employment services (job counselling, job finding clubs, resume/interview, skills upgrading)
• Prior learning assessment, specific skills training, certification (based on labour market demands)
• Training allowance
• Work experience
• Matching workers to jobs/ employers
• Wage subsidy
• Assistance to become self-employed
• Post-project follow up/ mentoring

• Financial assistance for employee training
• Training must be formal, structured, and delivered by a recognized training institution or qualified external training provider
• Training must improve productivity, enhance international competitiveness, increase long-term competitiveness of organization, and/or support introduction of equipment, technology or work processes

• Negotiated financial assistance for skills training, which may include tuition costs, other instructional costs, living expenses, dependent care, transportation and/or other personal supports

Employment-related training and support for Income Assistance clients:

• Job club/group job search program
• Directed work search
• Individual services and supports
• Life skills
• Skills development
• Short Term Certificate training

• Pre-employment services (disability management, job readiness, employability skills, work experience or simulation)
• Employment-based services (full-time or part-time employment, self-employment, work placement with training, volunteer placement)
• Financial assistance with tuition fees, disability and other supports

Support and employment-related training for women:

• Personal plan development
• Healing and support (e.g, peer support and referrals)
• Personal counselling
• Personal development (e.g., anger management, parenting, self-esteem)
• Employment-related skills (e.g., job search, resume, volunteer placement, occupational skills)
• Educational assistance (e.g., literacy, ESL, GED preparation)
• Follow-up services
• Financial supports

Support services for people with significant barriers, disabilities:

• In-depth assessment
• One-on-one support and referral
• Personal counselling
• Life skills
• Follow-up services
• Financial supports

• Employment resource centre
• Needs assessment
• Employment counselling
• Diagnostic assessment (testing)
• Return to Work Action Plan
• Employment workshops, job club/group job search program
• Case management
• Job placement
• Follow-up
• Financial supports

• Financial supports
• Client selects, arranges and pays for the program
• Employment-related skills training, adult basic education, second language, certification course (e.g., WHMIS, CPR, industrial first aid), university (specific occupation or final year)

• Financial supports while attending classroom component of apprenticeship for technical training toward certification

• Financial supports
• Assessment of business concept
• Business planning
• Entrepreneurship /self-employment training
• Individual coaching

• Work experience through job placement to enhance skills and employability/access employment
• Financial assistance to employer toward wages
• Financial supports for job-related costs may be provided to the worker

• Meaningful work experience on partnership projects run by community groups, business, and/or other levels of government
• Employment program adds skills and experience toward obtaining a long-term job
• Financial supports

Financial assistance:

• Funding for employers, employee and employer associations, and communities
• May cover related research, development of HR strategies, promotion of best practices, coordination of community-based approaches, short-term adjustment services for workers facing layoff, and economic (employment) development plans

• Financial assistance to employers to support approved skills training activities for employees who are facing loss of employment
• Eligible employers include:
  • private sector businesses
  • not-for-profit organizations
  • municipal governments
  • band or tribal councils
  • cooperatives, and
  • public health and educational institutions affected by reduced business activity, market changes and/or new legislative or regulatory requirements for workers