Labrador - Aboriginal Human Resource Council

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• Subject to privacy legislation, Voisey’s Bay is prepared to turn over their Labrador skills inventory to someone. • Voisey’s Bay Aboriginal employment coordinators will meet with AHRDA representatives. • Canadian Paraplegic Association will meet with AHRDAs over the next few months – people with disabilities. • Labrador Institute will share information on job opportunities. • Human Resources, Labour and Employment teleconference, career development practitioners will follow-up on all. What’s needed then (gaps to help Aboriginal clients seeking employment opportunities) Resume up-to-date. • Service Canada will hold a workshop for career development practitioners. • Iron Ore commits to make contact with all Aboriginal groups. • Nunatsiavut commits to making contact with the private sector. • Sheshatshi Innu First Nation – contact information brochure will be updated and made available to employers/organizations. • Use email to network/share information. • Create Labrador database – need full-time person to maintain a job bank. Integrate college system into database; postgraduates list. • Invite companies directly to Aboriginal communities. • Speak to Aboriginal political body about this forum and hold community information sessions on the outcomes of this forum. • At annual AHRDA meeting (have more regionally), conduct outreach with different sectors to get to know each other. • Within AHRDAs, build capacity and understanding of issues with the private sector. • Start recruitment younger (i.e., high-school level). • Exchange business cards now! • Partner AHRDA programming with other human resources, labour and employment tools and programs. Sit down at the same table. • AHRDAs offer knowledge of community that the business community can tap into. • AHRDAs post job offers, receive resumes and assist in selection process. • Prepare a list of upcoming jobs at Iron Ore; make list widely available via website. • Travel to communities and hold more career information sessions. • Create a labour market information strategy for better communications among businesses • Organize our efforts to deal with labour market shortage (leadership required to pull partners together). • Rebirth of youth employment strategy. 17
• Create ways to overcome geographic barriers “Smart Labrador Initiative” was a good start. • Develop a more of a co-op approach to apprenticeship. • Get career information into the high schools. • Have post secondary institutes work more jointly on projects with the Aboriginal communities. • Improve communication among employers, AHRDAs and others. • National Prospectors and Developers Association is one organization that is looking to increase its capacity with Aboriginal Peoples. • Explore ‘partnership’ what or how to define it. Could lead to some ongoing structure. • A Pan-Labrador Aboriginal website/ databanks should be established and maintained (job seekers need to keep their curriculum vitae up-to-date). • Employers should communicate job vacancies: – websites – newspapers. • Request a list of the private sector and all participants who attended this forum with contact information. • Seek greater involvement of the Aboriginal Human Resource Development Council of Canada (AHRDCC) in Labrador. further planning activities. One of their activities could be to develop a Labrador Council of Champions that could be responsible for the promotion of Aboriginal awareness. The council could be comprised of three-quarters Aboriginal groups, federal departments and several major companies (Suncor, Syncrude). • One of the ideas of this council would be to become an associate with local organizations such as the chamber of commerce. • Visitation of public service employers to visit communities and to have AHRDAs visit workplaces. • Check into the viability of the development of a training consortium (coordinating group), which could have a membership of consisting of companies, AHRDAs, and training institutes. • Suggest one main website for Labrador AHRDAs that contains information and contacts, which also could be a gateway to a database. Sustaining Connections: Closing Statements Sandy Stevens, National Director, Aboriginal Trades & Apprenticeship Development, AHDCC, thanked all the participants for their hard work throughout the day. Once the Labrador Workforce Connex forum report is completed, a follow-up meeting will be held with the steering committee to decide next steps. A more in-depth description of the National Trades Project is contained in the next section. • Steering committee could take the lead on 18
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