Skills Sprints:

Purpose

This project will implement Skills Sprints to help job seekers quickly build and showcase foundational skills through short, three-week training programs resulting in targeted, accessible upskilling and portable digital badges.

The Skills Sprints will be codesigned with employers and Employment Services to ensure the content is relevant, credible, aligned with labour market needs, and integrated into the local employment service system.

Background

Following the transition to Integrated Employment Services, the pathway to foundational skills

upgrading via the Get SET (Skills, Education and Training) system – formerly Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) - became fragmented, which reduced the number of referrals in some communities.

Not all job seekers, frontline Employment Services service providers and Social Assistance case managers understand Get SET services and their benefits to clients, and referrals to Get SET are not as actively encouraged as they had been pre-transformation. As a result, some job seekers aren’t accessing the skill development opportunities they need to be successful in long-term employment.

The Skills Sprints pilot program aims to resolve this challenge.

Check back to learn more as we develop and implement Skills Sprints: Accelerating Pathways to Employment!

‘Skills Sprints’ is funded by the Future Skills Centre through the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Program. Le projet ‘Skills Sprints’ est financé par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre du programme Compétences futures. 

About Future Skills Centre 

The Future Skills Centre (FSC) is a forward-thinking centre for research and collaboration dedicated to driving innovation in skills development so that everyone in Canada can be prepared for the future of work. We are funded by the Government of Canada's Future Skills Program.