Essential Skills For The Workplace

BEA-ALP Essential Skills Program is designed to help you with the everyday skills we use in learning. These skills allow individuals to succeed at home, at work, and community.

Essential skills are the foundation for learning. Employment and Social Development Canada have identified nine Essential skills to help people prepare for, get, and keep a job.

  • Numeracy
  • Oral Communication
  • Working with Others
  • Continuous Learning
  • Reading Text
  • Writing
  • Thinking
  • Document Use
  • Digital Skills.

BEA-ALP ESSENTIAL SKILLS PROGRAM has something for Everyone

Even if you have completed high school or post-secondary education, an Essential Skills program can provide learning for other skills, such as digital skills and workplace-specific skills. For instance, our Using Computers for Beginners and Using Computers Beginner’s Plus Programs helped several individuals adapt to working online from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic.