Skills for Success – Assessment and training tools

An on-line tool for assessing and developing social and emotional skills. The skills assessed include:

• creativity
• adaptability
• collaboration and
• communication

Cost: Yes

A comprehensive set of random questions that takes on average in 15-20 minutes for each of the nine skills. A star rating system is used to show the results and career recommendations. The star rating represents the five complexity levels of tasks associated with the nine skills. Most questions will test essential skill levels from one to three.

Computer Comfort provides a starting point for adults with disabilities who want to develop basic computer skills. It offers one-on-one computer tutoring at no cost. In person or online.

Cost: None to qualifying individuals

A series of standardized tests that provide information about a person’s abilities to manage workplace communications and numeracy tasks.

Cost: Yes

UP Skills for Work helps adult learners develop key employability skills needed through free workshops and downloadable workbooks.

A curriculum guide supporting instructors working with learners who are preparing to enter the workforce. Supporting low-skilled learners, it provides ideas, and guidance for instruction.

Cost: Yes

Instructional workbooks focusing on the functions and features of workplace documents. Aimed at engaging adults in understanding and using documents they will encounter in most entry-level jobs.

Cost: Yes

Being able to deal with change is an important life skill. Willingness to learn new ways of doing things can help you be more successful at work. This workbook talks about adaptability and coping better with change.

The ability to work well as part of a team is a very important skill. This workbook explores why teamwork is important, how to handle conflict with coworkers and how to improve teamwork skills.

We use writing every day at home and at work. Good writing skills are useful in many different areas of life. This workbook talks about why writing is important in your life and how to get better at writing.

This is a database that adult learners can use to find literacy programs in their community based on their needs. Search for programming such as: reading, ESL, workplace skills training and high school equivalency preparation.

Cost: Some programs have a cost

A free introductory digital literacy program for adult learners. The program helps adults increase their digital literacy skills with the support of youth volunteer-tutors and free online lesson plans.

The ABC Skills Hub is an online learning portal that offers asynchronous, at-home delivery of ABC Life Literacy Canada’s many adult literacy programs.

A comprehensive literacy and essential skills program focused exclusively on supporting and empowering adult learners.

We use numbers and math every day, like when we count our overtime hours at work, go shopping, or make a monthly budget. This workbook talks about how and why we use numbers and how to improve numeracy skills.

Reading helps us find information and communicate with others. This workbook talks about how and why we read and key strategies that can improve reading skills.

TOWES is an assessment that measures literacy and essential skills needed for safe and productive employment.

Cost: Yes

FIMESIP is a knowledge-sharing platform for individuals and organizations from across Canada working in literacy and essential skills (LES) for Indigenous people. This online Community of Practice allows individuals and organizations to share best practices, learn from each other’s innovations, and support development of the field.

The Workplace Digital Skills Training is an online training tool designed to increase the basic digital skills of workers and job seekers. It includes 4 separate workshops (8 hours of online learning in total) and is designed for learners to follow on their own. This training will be free for the first 200 registered learners as part of a pilot project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada.

Cost: Free for first 200 registered learners

Assess your ability to get an idea across by arranging words, numbers and symbols, whether on paper or a computer screen.

Assess your ability to understand text written in sentences or paragraphs.

Assess your ability to use and understand numbers.

Assessment to determine your skill strengths and areas for improvement for most of the skills.

Assessment tool for employers to learn more about the numeracy skills of their employees. It gives an indication of skill levels by providing level 1 and 2 assessment questions.

Assessment tool for employers to learn more about the reading skills of their employees. It gives an indication of skill levels by providing level 1 and 2 assessment questions.

A vocabulary workbook designed to help you improve your reading and writing skills. It includes 24 lessons with a variety of exercises designed to help you learn commonly used words.

Guide designed to support employees and learners who want to practice and improve their problem-solving skills. Includes various activities and worksheets.

Numeracy workbook with questions and learning material to help you practice your numeracy skills.

Workbook with a variety of exercises to help you practice your reading, writing, numeracy and document use abilities.