Vocational education

Steamfitters-pipefitters build, install, and maintain piping systems that carry oil and gas products, water, steam, chemicals, and other fluids. They may work in oil refineries, pulp and paper mills, power plants, food and beverage factories, the automotive industry, or other industrial settings.

This document is part of a series prepared by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) to help apprentices learn how Essential Skills are used on the job and prepare for a career.

In this fact sheet, the authors look at how each of the nine Essential Skills might be used on the job by a truck and transport mechanic.

This document offers examples of how an industrial electrician uses Essential Skills on the job. It is part of a series prepared by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC).

This fact sheet, part of a series prepared by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), can be used by an apprentice ironworker to learn how Essential Skills are used on the job; discover the skills needed to succeed in the trade; and prepare for a career.

This two-page document provides information about tools that are available through Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) to help understand, assess, and improve Essential Skills. The tools can be used by apprentices and tradespersons; employers; and trainers, educators, or advisors. The authors provide, in chart form, examples of what they describe as inform tools, assess tools, and support tools.

In this booklet, the authors follow a cook through a typical day to show how she uses Essential Skills in her job.

At the beginning of her shift, the cook relies on the skill of document use to read the schedule to see who she will be working with. She uses her critical thinking skills to decide who will work in each part of the kitchen that evening and calls upon her numeracy skills to make a smaller quantity of a recipe.

In this booklet, the authors follow a journeyperson construction electrician and her work partner through a typical day to show how they use Essential Skills on the job.

This document offers an overview of a Nova Scotia initiative that incorporates an informal assessment with the apprenticeship registration process. The assessment determines whether an apprentice needs support in acquiring the skills needed to succeed in training. If so, a learning plan is developed, using trades-specific material.

This is the curriculum for a refresher course in document use, developed as part of a Nova Scotia initiative that includes an informal assessment as part of the apprenticeship registration process in order to identify candidates who need help to acquire the skills required to succeed in their programs.

At the end of an apprenticeship program, the student can apply to write the Interprovincial Red Seal exam, which allows him to practise his trade in any province or territory in Canada where the trade is designated.