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Employers engaging Students Re:Action

Posted by: Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning And Development Board

Posted on: 2011 Dec 22

Three Employers, three sectors, taking part in the Youth Re:Action Project.....

Youth Re: Action proposed action from the 2011 Workforce Planning and Development Board's, Local Labour Market Plan 2011

Action: Three teams of youth will each meet with a business leader to learn about a workforce or business issue that the business leader would like to see addressed. The youth team will develop a solution for the issue and present their report to the business leader. Teams will employ interpersonal skills and relationship building through the action both within their team and with the business leader.

Overall Goal:

· Sharing between business and youth

· Business will have an opportunity to share the soft skills needed for employment

· Youth will learn the soft skill needed

Supporting Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) in Environment, Arts and Culture, and Information & Communications Technology

Employers particiatping:

IGPC Ethanol Inc.
Palace Theatre
Let’s Talk Science

Project to take place in the Second semester, January 2012.

For more details contact: Kathryn Tull, Youth Projects Manager/Passport to Prosperity Coordinator at Kathryn@workforcedevelopment.ca or 519-672-3499.

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