Level 1 – Essential Skills & RPL

Essential Skills are:

• The foundation skills that everyone uses to carry out the tasks of a job
• The skills we use to learn all other skills
• Nine in total

Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) is:

• A process for identifying and documenting a person’s skills, knowledge and gifts gained through formal and informal learning
• It includes life experiences, employment, hobbies, volunteer work and studying on your own
• A way to gain credit toward education programs and open doors to employment. (More)

In this workshop you’ll learn:

• The nine Essential Skills – what they are, why they are needed, and how they affect adults’ lives
• Who the provincial Essential Skills coordinators are and how to contact them
• How to use the HRSDC website as a resource tool
• Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) – what it is, how it works, and how it can help communities and individuals