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Essential Skills are needed for work, learning, and life.  Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has identified nine essential skills as the foundation for continued learning and developing new skills:

• Reading Text
• Document Use
• Numeracy
• Writing
• Oral Communication
• Working with Others
• Thinking Skills
• Computer Use

Our goal is to help you develop these skills throughout your time of study with the Adult Learning Centre.  You will continue developing these skills in future studies, the workplace, and in the tasks you complete each day in your everyday life!

Essential Skills Exercise One

Click here to visit "Understanding Essential Skills" at the HRDC website.  This page contains links to the nine essential skills. 

Click through to visit the description for THREE of the essential skills listed.  After reading the description, write a blog post about your understanding of each of these three skills. 

In the same blog post, identify which of these three skills you would most like to improve and how your life would benefit if you had mastered that skill.


Essential Skills Exercise Two

The HRDC Essential Skills website contains a search engine that allows you to enter the name of an occupation and see which skills are required to perform that job.

Click here to visit the "Search by Occupation" page.

Enter the word "firefighter" into the search box.  The search engine will display results and ask you to select the job title you were looking for.  Choose "firefighters."

Read the description of the role of a firefighter and the essential skills required to do this job.  You will see that the job description identifies which skills are most important, as well as the level of each skill required.

Now go back to the "Search by Occupation" page and enter the title of THREE jobs you may be interested in learning more about. 

Write a new blog post with three paragraphs: one about each job description you are interested in.  In each paragraph, write about your understanding of, or experience with, the skills required to complete the job you are researching.

Send an email to adult.learning@gmail.com when you have completed both parts of this lesson. Click the form below to fill it out and be eligible for the monthly draw.