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OSP Resource for Employment Ontario Programs

Welcome to this user-friendly OSP resource designed for use in Employment Ontario programs. It includes an OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers and a set of audio tips on how job seekers can use the OSP to assess and build their Essential Skills and work habits and transfer them to a job or further education or training. There are also print-based tips for job seekers, Action Centre coordinators and peer helpers, employment specialists/case managers and needs assessors, and adult educators.

A Guide to Linking Essential Skills and the Curriculum

Whether you teach in an elementary school, help adults upgrade their math skills, or create activities for use in physics classes, you are giving learners an opportunity to develop and practise their Essential Skills. But which Essential Skills are learners using? This guide outlines a two-step process for identifying and analysing Essential Skills in classroom activities which will help you uncover the Essential Skills learners are using and determine the skill demands.

OSP Training Plan

If you are enrolled in a training program, such as Ontario Skills Development or Literacy and Basic Skills, create an OSP Training Plan for an occupation you want to enter. Your educator/ trainer can use the training plan to help create learning opportunities that focus on the Essential Skills and work habits you need to develop. Educators/trainers will record the demonstration of Essential Skills and work habits in your training plan. After the training program, you can use the information in your OSP Training Plan to update your résumé to communicate your Essential Skills and work habits to employers. You can also update your OSP Tracker with this information to track and plan further skills development.

OSP Resource for use in Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) - Updated: September 29, 2009

This resource has been updated to include the OSP Action Plan for Learners, updated Check-Up Tools that offer more self-assessments and a resource specifically for the Arts and Culture SHSM.

OSP Resource for use in Career Studies

This resource includes the following: an OSP Key Messages chart that outlines how learners, parents, employers and teachers can use the OSP; tips for using the OSP in Career Studies; Putting the OSP into ACTION in Guidance and Career Education (OSCA Today, Fall 2009); OSP Promotional Materials such as the OSP Tracker; and the OSP Action Plan for Learners that provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that learners can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.

OSP Action Plan for Learners - Updated: October 16, 2009

The OSP Action Plan for Learners provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that learners can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.

Updated OSP Flow Chart - Updated: October 16, 2009

"Skills ZONE" has been moved to the Resources section of the OSP.

OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers - Updated: October 16, 2009

The OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that job seekers can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.

OSP Partners

We continue to expand OSP partnerships that help build competence, confidence and connections! There are now two-way linkages between Career Cruising and the OSP occupational profiles to make it easier for learners and job seekers to access relevant information, resources and tools that will help them in their learning and career decisions. As well, the Employer Registry is now directly linking employers, teachers, students and parents to OSP resources and tools which will help promote a common skills language.

Occupations and Tasks

Check out a great new addition to the OSP Occupational Profiles! Each occupational profile contains information on how workers use their Essential Skills on the job as well as useful links to information on career exploration, education and training and employment trends and opportunities. You can now click on the Canada Futures link in any profile to get information on wages and job requirements for that occupation. This allows you to access even more employment information in just one place.

New OSP Video

Workers, learners and employers discuss how Essential Skills and work habits are used on the job and in daily life.

My Essential Skills and Essential Skills Walkabout

My Essential Skills is a new OSP resource that can be used with individuals to introduce Essential Skills language. The Essential Skills Walkabout which is a group activity to introduce Essential Skills language has been updated.

Essential Skills and Work Habits Reference Sheets with Sample Tasks

This resource is new and can be helpful to explain Essential Skills and skill levels, as well as work habits, in situations where one does not have access to the videos and resources in the Essential Skills and Work Habits section of the OSP website.

New OSP Check-Up Self-Assessment Tools

Choose from three different self-assessments to get information on your Essential Skills and work habits. The two new self-assessments focus on Essential Skills tasks that you do in everyday life and Essential Skills tasks that you do or have done at work. You can compare your results to occupations you are interested in. You can also use your results to identify real workplace activity sets to help you practice and build your Essential Skills.

Messages for Employers

Job developers, co-operative education teachers, Business Education Council and Local Board representatives and others can use this resource to promote the OSP with employers.