At KW Career Compass, we offer job readiness courses including sector specific learning open to anyone with any barrier to employment. These courses are focused on building the skills essential for employment, creating a resume, interview preparation, and more!
Here are our different courses:
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LEG Up! to Work: Focuses on the overall experience one can expect from employment, building relevant job skills, and covering various topics related to work in general.
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LEG Up! to Retail: Focuses on building customer service, cash handling, conflict resolution, and organizational skills.
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LEG Up! to Hospitality: Focuses on building necessary skills to work within the “big four” areas of hospitality, including food and beverage, travel and tourism, lodging, and recreation.
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LEG Up! to Material Handling: Prepares people for employment within the multiple industries inside the material handling sector, including manufacturing, construction, warehousing, and retail.
Every LEG Up! Course Includes:
- Self-Presentation
- Time Management
- Rights & Responsibilities
- Being Professional in the Workplace
- The Realities of Work
- Managing Work and Personal Life
- Goals and Barriers
- Job Search and Interview Skills
- Learn the importance of giving and receiving both positive and negative feedback.
- Dealing with Conflict
- Workplace Math
- Work/Life Balance
- Work Relationships
- Task Management
- AND MORE!
Our LEG Up! to series: LEG Up! to Work, LEG Up! to Retail, LEG Up! to Hospitality and LEG Up! to Material Handling courses are the first steps to working on your employment goals with KW Career Compass. Referrals for these 10-week courses are received thru Developmental Services Ontario and on a fee for service basis. Each course includes 32 hours of in class learning, hands-on skill evaluations in the community, practice interviews with community partners, literacy evaluations, and the opportunity, once the course is complete, to connect with a job coach for ongoing support. By seeing the students in action at skill evaluations, we get a chance to observe hard and soft skills and begin to develop a rapport. Following the course, an employment planning meeting is held to discuss next steps.
Registration information for these courses is available on our website. Visit https://shop.kwhab.ca/product-category/kw-career-compass/ to sign up.
