This workshop will provide participants with resources to help them with their integration into a new Canadian workplace and how to retain their employment. Participants will:

• Identify the essential steps needed for integration into a new workplace.
• Identify skills and knowledge needed to maintain their job and advance.
• Improve their workplace communication and interpersonal skills.
• Learn how to apply better problem solving and time management skills.

• Learn key techniques that will help you access the job market.
• Learn how to identify and access the visible and hidden job market.
• Learn how to job search using different tools.

This workshop will help participants learn how to prepare an effective resume, the dos and don’ts and creating a functional resume.
• Learn how to write a resume and create your own.
• Learn how to create a targeted resume to respond to job ads.
• Understand the purpose and contents of a functional resume.

WEST, in partnership with GECDSB Literacy and Basic Skills Program, is offering Math refresher classes for our upcoming intake of the CNC/INDUSTRIAL MECHANIC MILLWRIGHT PROGRAM. The CNC/Industrial Mechanic Millwright Pre-Apprenticeship Program helps participants gain skills and employment within the trades sectors without any prior knowledge and experience. 

If you are interested in applying for WEST’s  CNC/INDUSTRIAL MECHANIC MILLWRIGHT PROGRAM starting August 2019 and need to upgrade your Math skills, then this program is right for you. Through an individualized approach the participants will receive support that will focus on their mathematical needs to help them upgrade and improve their Math skills.

Classes are also open to clients in the Windsor -Essex who are interested in upgrading their Math skills to support their career goals.

This 12-week Microsoft Word Training program will be offered three to four times throughout the year. The training program will cover topics on:

• Creating and managing documents
• Formatting text, paragraphs, and sections
• Creating tables and lists
• Applying references
• Inserting and formatting objects
• Mail Merge
• Working with illustrations and references

Note: Microsoft certification option is available for the Microsoft Word class.

Learn how to create a Thank you Letter for a potential employer after the interview.  The participants will gain a better understanding of the difference between open paragraph and closed paragraph letters and create a business letter.

• Understand the importance of Thank You/Follow up letter
• Learn the proper formatting and contents.

Basic Computer training is a 12-week introductory program that will give the learner a chance to become familiar with the computer through learning:

• Computer terminology
• What is an Operating System
• The difference between hardware and software
• Windows 7
• File Management 
• Improve your typing skills (Mavis Beacon)
• An introduction to the internet and email

Participants will learn about great techniques to succeed in an interview. 

• Learn about the most common interview questions
• The different interview types, styles and  settings
• Learn how to make a great “first impression”
• How to dress for success
• To importance of follow-up

Learn about great techniques to succeed in an interview using online simulation. Through simulation will participants will practise:
• Basic Interview Questions
• Behaviour Questions

Participants will create professional calling cards for job fairs and other job search related purposes. Learn how to highlight your skills for a business card size space. During the workshop, participants will practice many aspects of Microsoft Word, such as creating labels, using tables, inserting graphics, text boxes and arranging different elements. At the end of the workshop, participants have created at least one calling card that will be saved for future use.

• Work with tables and table options
• Learn about inserting graphics and text boxes into a cell of a table
• Arrange objects within a cell by using various features