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What Did Manufacturing Employers Say?

Summer Burton • November 26, 2020

Learn the results of our recent employer interviews

Throughout 2020, Literacy Link South Central has been working on an Ontario Labour Market Partnership Project to better connect employment-bound adult literacy learners to entry-level jobs in manufacturing. As part of that initiative, we interviewed eleven manufacturers about their hiring practices, the soft skills they find most valuable, and how a soft skills assessment tool could help support their hiring practices.

We are happy to release a 2-page infographic to share the results of these interviews here. If you would like to read the full Employer Engagement Summary Report, you can do so here. 

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