What can you expect from Skills Hub?

Program Overview

Skills Hub is a free job and skills training program for recent newcomers who face added barriers to starting their careers in Canada. Skills Hub includes: 

Overview:

  • Skills Training (including soft skills training)
  • Group workshops for employment readiness
  • 1:1 development of training plans
  • Career counselling
  • Job search assistance and employer connections
  • Occupational and short duration skills training
  • Workplace language training (for participants under CLB 5/6)
  • Connections to further education

Workshop topics:

Our core group workshops include:

Labour market information

  1. Job search 
  1. Networking 
  1. Resumes and cover letter preparations 
  1. Interviews, follow up, and job retention
  2. Soft skills (including problem solving, decision-making, communication)
  3. Competency-based learning (key workplace competencies and social-emotional skills
  4. And more! 

Additional support:

  1. Mentorship
  2. Mental health
  3. Childcare: assistance for participants who are parents to reduce/remove barriers to completing skills training courses.
  4. Other personal supports based on need
How can I join?

Eligibility

  • Recent newcomers with permanent residency living in British Columbia – CA for up to 10 years.
  • Permanent Residents.
  • Refugees (Protected Persons with Positive Notice of Decision) with Open Work Permits.
  • CUAET with Open Work Permits.
  • International Student Graduates with Open Work Visas (PGWP).
  • Open Work Permit.
  • International Student with Both Study and Open Work Permit.
  • Beginners to Intermediate English level. Minimum Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB 4) – adequate basic.
  • Unemployed or temporarily employed (casual without benefits) and not receiving financial support from another provincially or federally funded labour market program.
  • Newcomers who are finding it hard to get a job and facing multiple barriers. Barriers may include lack of recent and/or Canadian work experience, lack of basic employment skills, limited literacy, and other.
  • Living in British Columbia in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond, Surrey, Langley, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Squamish.

Funding Partners

Want to learn more or ask a question?

Contact the Skills Hub team to understand how Skills Hub can help your career in Canada!

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Courses and Workshops

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Tue, Apr

30

Global Talent Loans Program Info Session

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Tue, Apr

30

Job Retention Workshop – Conflict Literacy

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Thu, May

2

Global Talent Loans Program Info Session

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