Workforce connex - Aboriginal Human Resource Council

••••••••••••••••••••••••••Unaware of wage subsidy programs.Job readiness training partnerships.Jobs not permanent and long term (i.e., Hydro projects in North).Build transferable skills - transferable at community level.Ways and means to bridge (i.e., Manitoba Hydroconstruction jobs into full-time permanent jobs).Need to work and promote Aboriginal small andmedium business (self – employment).Aboriginal business incubator environments.Aboriginal self – employment traditionally in trades,Information Technology, recording arts.Funding is a challenge for business start-ups –Business Development Canada assists.Need a lot more mentoring as many Aboriginal backgrounds not in business.How are training programs chosen?Employee training counselling.Aboriginal specific training.Special pre-placement in the trades.Upgrade, life skills, work experience.Interest in tradesSuccess indicators.Entry-level, in-house training.Large trained population.Transition difficulty.Client needs: steel toed boots, transportationEmployers thinking AHRDAs are bottomless pits of money – Employersto own 100% of partnership – build in monetary commitments.Girls camp—— Young Aboriginal women – engineer—— Mentorship.Review bona fide qualifications.Unions – What we wish for ourselves we seek for all—— Not impediment rather biggest advocates and allies—— Lack of understanding about unions and their process—— Employers turning their corporate culture around—— Employers reflecting the community they live in.Sourcing the people:—— Lack of awareness of AHRDA’s services—— Lack of navigation of Aboriginals – the system—— Business has taken responsibility to seek out AHRDAs—— Lack of marketing and promoting of AHRDAs—— Politics within AHRDAs—— Can’t seem to link together—— Appears to be many internal politics of the AHRDA—— Partnership is not practiced within, business becomesfrustrated and patience becomes neglect.Lack of knowledge of Aboriginal resources for recruiting——(organizations, papers, radio, television).20Aboriginal Human Resource CouncilManitoba Workforce Connex Report