Skills for Success and the Essential Skills

Skills for Success and

the Essential Skills 

Skills for Success

Essential Skills are the skills everyone needs to participate and thrive in learning, work and life. Recently, Employment and Social Development Canada revised the Essential Skills into the Skills for Success. 

Skills for Success include skills that are foundational for building other skills and knowledge and important for effective social interaction. These skills overlap and interact with each other, and with other technical and life skills. They are inclusive and can be adapted to different contexts. Adult literacy programs help learners develop their Skills for Success, including: 
  1. Adaptability
  2. Collaboration
  3. Communication
  4. Creativity and innovation
  5. Digital
  6. Numeracy
  7. Problem solving
  8. Reading
  9. Writing
You can read more about each of the nine Skills for Success on our blog.

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Literacy: An Essential Skill for Employment (2014)
  • LLSC produced a video that showcases employment counsellors and support staff from various local agencies, literacy experts and community leaders as they share their stories about the impact of literacy on their communities. The goal of this video was to increase partnerships and effective referrals between Employment Services and Literacy and Basic Skills programs. 

We welcome you to view the Employment Services Outreach video, and invite you to share it with the agencies and clients you think may benefit from viewing it. Using or reproducing this video for profit is strictly prohibited. If you have any questions about this project, please contact Literacy Link South Central at literacylink@llsc.on.ca. 

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Essential Skills for Literacy Practitioners: A Guide and Three Workshops (2011) 

These resources provide a foundation for literacy practitioners to learn more about the nine Essential Skills and the Essential Skills Profiles. A brief history of the development of the Essential Skills and the Essential Skills Profiles has been included. You will also find current best practices for integrating the Essential Skills into Literacy and Basic Skills programming. Click here to access this resource.
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"Connecting Literacy and Employment through Essential Skills" Project (2011) 

Through a 2-year project (June 2009 to May 2011) Literacy Link South Central developed a set of seven workbooks. These resources embed Essential Skill activities within employment-readiness tasks. We designed the workbooks to help people build employability skills and literacy/Essential Skills simultaneously.

About the Workbooks

These resources have been developed for people who want to look for employment while strengthening their Essential Skills. These workbooks will be most successful if they are used in a facilitated group setting, as many exercises include working with other people. There are several computer-related activities so the users need access to a computer and the Internet.

The topics reflect the steps people take when looking for a job. For best results, these resources can be used as a series (1-7). But if someone doesn't need the information in every workbook, they can can just choose the ones with the content that is right for them.

We hope these workbooks will help clients of employment and literacy programs move more quickly to fill labour market vacancies. Through stronger partnerships, employment preparation programs and literacy programs can work more collaboratively to build a productive Canadian workforce.

Accessing the Workbooks Online

These workbook are available for free below. You will be able to download free copies of the workbooks or use them interactively.

Organizations are encouraged to copy these materials; however, reproducing these materials for a profit is prohibited. All website links were accurate at the time of printing.
 
Download interactive online workbooks here:

Download workbooks for reproduction here:

This project was funded in part by the Government of Canada's Office of Literacy and Essential Skills   
 Literacy Link South Central is a partner in Employment Ontario
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