Skills for Success
Looking to develop, test, or improve skills that can help you get a job, progress in your current role or change jobs? Our Skills for Success program helps you do just that! Below you’ll find more information about what these skills are, along with workbooks, assessments, booklets, and much more! These tools are designed for students and teachers to use in their classes.
Why Skills for Success?
Many Canadian workers do not have the skills needed to meet the demands of their jobs.
Being unable to meet the minimum performance requirements of their jobs limits their career opportunities and wages, and makes them vulnerable to a variety of other negative outcomes.
There are nine skills that can set workers up for success with work, learning, and life – no matter where they live or what job they pursue. They are the foundation for learning all other skills, and they enable people to evolve within the workplace and in life. Read more in the Facilitator’s Guide.
The Story of Skills for Success
The Skills for Success were launched by the Government of Canada in May 2021, in response to an evolving labour market. These nine skills reflect the rapidly changing skill needs and requirements:
- Numeracy
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem solving
- Writing
- Adaptability
- Reading
- Creativity & Innovation
- Digital Skills
Skills For Success PowerPoints
Help improve your students’ Skills for Success with our newest classroom resource!
Teachers can complement their class material with these PowerPoints.
Use them as a series or focus on one of the Skills for Success. An Educator Guide is included!
Get Your Game on with the SFS Challenge Series!
Skills/Compétences Canada (SCC) has launched the Skills for Success (SFS) Challenge Series on the Kahoot! platform.
These quiz games are designed to help students discover the nine Skills for Success (SFS) including Reading, Numeracy, Adaptability, Collaboration, Writing, Creativity & Innovation, Communication, Problem Solving and Digital. It also provides them with an opportunity to use their thinking skills in different contexts and apply what they’ve learned.
These games will have students on their toes as they learn about the Skills for Success, how to use them, and their importance for careers in the skilled trades and technologies.
The quizzes in the SFS Challenge Series range from selecting an answer, to multiple choice questions, and filling in the blank. They will also identify skills through looking at pictures, watching videos and reading text. All these games will teach students about the Skills for Success while helping them develop these valuable skills.
Games available:
Skills/Compétences Canada — Intro and Fun Facts
Reading
Collaboration
Creativity & Innovation
Communication
Adaptability
Numeracy
Problem Solving
Digital
Writing
SFS and Skilled Trade Careers
Workready Youth Workbooks
Looking to improve your skills and set yourself up for success in the workplace? If you’re a teacher, you can complement your class material with these workbooks. We also offer an interactive online experience that can track progress for each workbook in a student dashboard.
Grow your skills
Numeracy
Your ability to find, understand, use, and report mathematical information presented through words, numbers, symbols, and graphics.
Reading
Your ability to find, understand, and use information presented through words, symbols, and images.
Writing
Your ability to share information using written words, symbols, and images.
Adaptability
Your ability to achieve or adjust goals and behaviors when expected or unexpected changes occur, by planning, staying focused, persisting, and overcoming setbacks.
Creativity & Innovation
Your ability to imagine, develop, express, encourage, and apply ideas in ways that are novel or unexpected, or challenge existing methods and norms.
Communication
Your ability to receive, understand, consider, and share information and ideas through speaking, listening, and interacting with others which includes broader concepts such as non-verbal communication.
Collaboration
Collaboration skills help you perform better in a team by understanding how to support and value others, manage difficult interactions and contribute to the team’s work.
Problem Solving
Your ability to identify, analyze, propose solutions, and make decisions. Problem solving helps you to address issues, monitor success, and learn from experience. Strong problem- solving skills will help you gather the right information, identify and solve problems, and make better decisions.
Skills for Success Mobile Assessment App
Ready to test your skills and learn more about working in the trades? Download the Skills for Success Mobile App for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
What to expect:
- Profiles of over 40 skilled trade and technology careers.
- Summary of the Skills for Success for the workplace.
- A comprehensive set of questions that can be completed in 15-20 minutes.
- Social media features for users to share their results with their friends, teachers and parents.
- Students can post and compare their results to see how their friends are performing and progressing.
- Teachers can use the App as a classroom tool.
- A link to the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) website with access to all the national occupational profiles.
- Results can be compared against the levels of complexity in the ESDC profiles for specific skilled trade careers.
- A directory of all trade and technology schools and training facilities in Canada.
Try it out today!
Activities
Are you a teacher looking for exercises for your class? There are many interesting ways to explore skilled trades and technologies with your students. Check out the links below for activities that will help your students practice the Skills for Success.
Cooking
Electrical Installations
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Hairstyling 1
Hairstyling 2
Carpentry
Graphic Design
Automation and Control
Masonry
Automotive Repair
Car Painting
Looking for more support?
Contact your local Skills/Compétences Canada office. Our staff will be happy to help you organize a classroom presentation for your students.
Success Kits
We offer Skills for Success activity kits for teachers to use in their classrooms.
Request a kit
Fill in the form below and a member of our team will be in touch with you as soon as possible!
Skills for Success at SCNC
The Skills Canada National Competition (SCNC) is the only national, multi-trade and technology competition for students and apprentices in the country.
Visiting students can also learn about the Skills for Success by engaging in hands-on challenges, presentations, and interactive activities intended to increase their awareness of the Skills for Success in any given trade or technology career.
Looking for more information?
Please contact Marisa Sosa, Director, Programs and Diversity & Inclusion, at marisas@skillscanada.com
Try-A-Trade® And Technology Activities
These activities enable visitors to put their skills to the test and get a feel for the skilled trades and technologies. Visitors complete a variety of projects, including bricklaying, electrical wiring, graphic design, cooking, and many more. Visitors can also bring home products that they created with their own hands. Students are encouraged to complete their Skills for Success passport, where they identify the Skills for Success used at various Try-a- Trade® and Technology activities. Submitted passports are eligible to win a prize.
Let’s Talk Skills for Success
This live, national webcast is hosted onsite during SCNC. A series of guests discuss the importance of the Skills for Success in their industries and about their experiences with the Skills for Success.
You can also watch these on our YouTube channel.
Skills For Success Forum
The Skills for Success Forum brings education and industry representatives together to discuss the importance of educating youth on the nine Skills for Success, and how they relate to skilled trade and technology occupations. This free half-day conference enables attendees to participate in interactive sessions that encourage open dialogue amongst many stakeholder groups.
Skills For Success Youth Assembly
The Skills for Success Youth Assembly provides a venue for young adults, aged 18-22, to discuss current trends in skilled trades and technologies.
The goal is to gather recommendations from the voices at the table, who represent various regions across the country, on how to improve Skills/Compétences Canada’s activities. Conversations are guided by predetermined criteria and vary from year to year.
This assembly is more than just a one-time platform for dialogue. It is a think tank of talented youth talking about those engaged in trades and technologies in Canada. It has a lasting legacy as it sparks networking opportunities where strong relationships are formed and serves as a space where leadership potential is unveiled.