Skills Sprints:

Accelerating Pathways to Employment

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

upgrading via the Get SET (Skills, Education and Training) – formerly Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) system became fragmented, which reduced the number of referrals. Not all job seekers or frontline Employment Services and Social Assistance service providers 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, job seekers aren’t accessing the skill development opportunities they need to be successful in employment in the long-term.

This project will implement ‘Skills Sprints’ which aim to help job seekers quickly build and showcase foundational skills through short, three-week training modules (e.g., workplace writing, shop math) that result 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, and aligned with labour market needs, and integrated into the local employment service system.