By Julie Perrault
Apprenticeship is a structured system whereby an apprentice acquires the knowledge and skills, and learns to use the tools and materials of a trade while employed in that trade under the supervision of a skilled journeyperson. It includes on-the-job training and formal in-school technical training usually taken at a college or a private training institute.
Did you know that our 5-day MBTI qualifying program is the most content rich, experientially based workshop in North America? You will leave this course well prepared to immediately put type theory into practice with:
- multiple outlines for conducting introductory workshops
- reproducible masters for handouts and overheads
- more than 50 exercises to use when working with type theory
Can’t come to us for training? We would be delighted to come to you for an in-house program for groups of 10 or more. Browse our site or call for details on our high quality training prgrams, including: You and the Career Development Process, True Colors, FIRO-B, Strong Interest Inventory, and the COPSystem.
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Disadvantaged Canadian youth often encounter difficulties in becoming established in the labour force. Whether due to emotional and physical abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, failure in school, or involvement in the criminal justice system, it is clear that many of these young people have inadequate skills and experience to compete in labour markets that increasingly require advanced training.
Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training BC’s Community Based Trainers
ASPECT is . . . a provincial association made up of over 140 members who provide employability and career training to people with barriers to employment; some members are private trainers and some are non-profit agencies.
ASPECT membership . . . is available to organizations in BC that provide community based employment and career training. ASPECT members deliver a variety of programs and services designed to assist individuals to overcome their employment disadvantages.
ASPECT exists to . . facilitate resource sharing and problem solving between agencies, promote good working relationships between agencies and government and to coordinate professional development opportunities for the management and staff of member agencies.
ASPECT administers . . .Job Start, a wage subsidy program for young people aged 17 to 24 and Training Works! A workplace based training program. ASPECT subcontracts the delivery of these programs to its qualified member agencies.
ASPECT members receive:
- Coordination and assistance with advocacy activities
- Requests for proposals to administer ASPECT programs
- A provincial directory of all member agencies
- Quarterly newsletter ASPECTIVES
- Information about regional professional development activities, and
- Invitations to participate in conferences and the Association’s Annual General Meeting.
ASPECT advocates . . . on behalf of its member agencies and their clients, both federally and provincally. On the national front, ASPECT represents its members with the following committees and organizations:
- The Canadian Coalition of Community Based Trainers (CCCBT)
- The Canadian Association of Education and Training Organizations (CAETO)
- The Canada Career Consortium (CCC)
- The National Headquarters of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), and
- The National Reference Committee for the First Source web site
ASPECT Board of Directors . . . consists of executive members as well as regional representatives from the Fraser Valley, Thompson-Oakanagan, Kootenays, Vancouver and Vancouver Island. The Board meets frequently to exchange information through networking, events and conference calls. ASPECT maintains a provincial office, located in Victoria.
Denise Dawson is a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) with a background in the management of a large non profit community based training agency. As Director of Membership Services with ASPECT, her role is to provide members with information, research, advocacy and professional development opportunities.
By Diane Strong, Office Workers Career Centre
“The use of the Internet for business purposes is already having a profound impact on the largest non-managerial occupational group in the workforce – office support workers. E-business practices are changing the tools clerical workers use, where they work, who they are employed by, and their relationships with clients, customers, suppliers, managers and colleagues.” That’s a central conclusion of research by the Office Workers Career Centre to evaluate the impact of e-business on administrative and clerical workers.
By popular request from past NATCON years, Catherine Mossop will conduct a special 3-hour training session on Values assessment using the Valuescards system.
In 3 hours you will learn how to use a tool that will dramatically enhance your career/life counselling skills, in a quick, fun to use form. You will be able to clarify personal values as the basis for your clients’ decision making and make clear links to organizational life immediately upon returning to your consulting practice.
Did you know that our 5-day MBTI qualifying program is the most content rich, experientially based workshop in North America? You will leave this course well prepared to immediately put type theory into practice with:
Building Effective Partnerships
by Scarborough Network of Immigrant Service Organizations (SNISO), Manual – 2000
Intentional Group Counseling: A Microskills Approach, 1st Edition
Allen E. Ivey, Paul B. Pedersen, Mary Bradford Ivey, Wadsworth Publishing, 2001, ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-52651-9
Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills
David W. Johnson and Frank P. Johnson, Allyn & Bacon, 2000, ISBN: 0-205-30859-7
Program Evaluation: An Introduction 3rd Edition
David Royse, Bruce A. Thyer, Deborah Padgett and T.K. Logan, Wadsworth Publishing, 2001, ISBN/ISSN: 0-8304-1536-X
Times Change – A Career Planning Workbook for Women
By Times Change Women’s Employment Service, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 1704, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. Phone: (416) 927-1900. CD ROM – 2000.
By Patricia Harper, Vice President , Ontario Association for the Application of Personality Type (OAAPT)
OAAPT held its annual conference in downtown Toronto at Ryerson Polytechnic University’s Oakham House on November 4th and 5th 2000. Owing to the immense popularity of this year’s presenters, the Thomas Lounge was filled to capacity and registrations had to be closed off to the disappointment of many. We were delighted to have participants join our Ontario members from British Columbia, Manitoba and New York.