SKILLS READY empowers young people, their educators and their advisors to help them explore and prepare for jobs in the skilled trades and technologies.
Skills Ready in Action
Through a series of engagement activities, young people are challenged to work through and track the activities that lead them to become employable in the skilled trades and technologies.
Presentations & Workshops
Skills Ready presentations and workshops explore concepts around employability. From the core attributes of attitude, skills and knowledge that comprise the Industry ASK, to the basics of workplace safety that are explored in our LearnSafe presentations – students take part in guided discussions and activities that develop these attributes and demonstrate that they are employable.
Opportunity Fairs & Workplace Tours
Skills Ready Showcases bring local employers into classrooms and provide students with the opportunity to connect with employers and share their projects. Participants discover first-hand how what they do in school bridges to the world of work. Through our many industry partners, the Skills Ready team facilitates a variety of workplace tours to sites such as manufacturing facilities and construction sites. These tours help students see the amazing variety of careers that exist in our communities. They may also lead to work experience or apprenticeship opportunities.
Get a Competitive Advantage
CFBC’s Skills Ready program bridges the gap between the workforce and the new generation of skilled trades professionals. By bringing industry experts to classrooms for presentations and showcase events, students are able to start expanding their professional networks while still in school.
These connections often help students to secure their first job and begin their apprenticeships much faster than if they had tried to make connections with employers on their own.
This gives them a competitive edge in the job market and sets them on the path to success.
Meet The Team Leading This Project
René Ragetli
Lisa Scott
Shane Roy
Let's Talk
Contact the Skills Ready team! Whether you have a question or just want to chat, we’re here!
Our Community of Partners and Supporters
‘As a careers teacher, the knowledge that I have a team of professional and hardworking individuals who can act as a liaison between the school system and employer groups is invaluable. We know our ‘educational world’, but if we do not have recent and a deep involvement in the “construction world”, which most of us do not, having this link is critical.’
Don Cameron
School District 61
‘Projects like this are a critical way that industry can help change perspectives and promote solid, reliable jobs into the future.’
Rod Parker
Parker Johnston, Victoria BC
‘The ‘Skills Ready’ showcase initiative is exactly what some of our young people need to help guide them in their post secondary career decisions.’
Mike Booth
School District 81
Tools and Resources
Early introduction to careers in the skilled trades is a crucial and often underestimated aspect of youth development, as it lays the foundation for successful and fulfilling future career opportunities. By providing essential hands-on experience, practical skills, and a clearer understanding of the wide variety of trade careers, youth will be able to make informed decisions about their career paths, ultimately leading to well-paying and rewarding careers.
Self-Assessments tool & Poster
Self Assessment
Attitude, Skills & Knowledge
This Attitude, Skills and Knowledge Rubric helps students assess if they have the attributes that employers look for in a new hire.
Rubric Poster
Attitude, Skills & Knowledge Self-Assessment tool
A tool used to identify employer expectations of young workers starting out in construction employment.
Ask Poster
The Industry Ask
Help students to see real-world construction work, through site tours, job shadowing, or an employer presentation in schools.
Lesson Plan
Attitude, Skills & Knowledge Self-Assessment Lesson Plan
Use the Skills Ready Self-Assessment Rubric to identify their work-ready strengths and areas students can improve on
Learn Safe-Safety Rubric
Safety Rubric
LearnSafe
This rubric will allow your students to gague their famliarity and improve upon their ability to perform with a safety-first mentality in the workplace
ADST Project Books
Activity Book
Discover a Trade
In this book, you will find a variety of activities that are designed to help you learn about different skilled trades.
Woodwork for The Classroom
Wood Innovations for The Classroom
See the Potential: Wood Innovations for the Classroom
Elementary Electrical
An Exploration of Currents and Volts
This educator resource provides guidelines and best practices to follow when exploring beginner electrical projects and theory. These projects have been created to inspire students to learn new skills and expand their minds to learn new concepts.
Electrifying Math
An Exploration of Physics, Math and Connections to the Electrical Trades
Electrifying Math is a series of 12 project resources that can be used individually, or, taught in their entirety, cover the Foundations of Math 11 and Physics 11 BC Curricula.
Partners, Funders & Donors
Skills Ready and Build Green Together are made possible by:
