3. Components
National Occupational Classifications
IALS assessment materials
Essential Skills Profiles
Canadian Work Preference Inventory
Working in Canada
Authentic Workplace Materials
PLATO Learning System
4. Addressing Mature Workers’ needs (1)
Identifies other work that matches the worker’s
interests
User answers fifty questions about work preference.
User examines occupations that match work preference
profiles.
5. Addressing Mature Workers’ needs (2)
Narrows the search to jobs that are available and
rewarding
Assesses Essential Skills and matches with selected
profiles
Compares assessed skills with skills required by targeted
occupation (gap analysis)
Users click to the precise page in Working in Canada to
see wage scale, prospects, and specific jobs available in
the user’s community.
6. Gap Analysis
Willow Wisp, for Home Health Care Worker
Skill Name Your Skill Level Required Skill Level
Reading Text 4 1-3
Document Use 2 1-3
Writing 1 1-2
Numeracy 5 1-2
Oral Communication 2 1-2
Problem Solving 3 1-3
Decision Making 2 1-3
Job Task Planning 2 2
Finding Information 3 1
Computer Use 2 0
7. Addressing Mature Workers’ needs (3)
Demonstrates existing Essential Skills that are used
in targeted occupations
Helps Mature Workers reflect on existing skills they have
acquired over forty or fifty or more years of living and
working.
Participants describe skills in respect to specific new
occupations.
ESPORT generates a document to show the Mature
Worker’s potential for the new occupation.
8. Life and Work
Partial response for Registered Nurse (current ESPORT client)
Document Use
Working in homecare I read and give medication. I complete personal care records daily.
Monthly weights are completed and documented as well. I use many different materials for
communication including brail for the blind. Capable of taking TPR's,I&O's then recording
them.
Problem Solving
I'm able to fax or copy any medical documents that needs to be sent or received. I&O's are
monitored when necessary to keep a record of anything that may be abnormal. Inservice
training is required every year on repositioning residents with assistance as well as alone, by the
therapy department using proper body mechanics. Working with mentally challenge people and
others with personal issues I have learned to diffuse a situation, look at the positive side and
have the consumer calm and relaxed. During emergency situations I'm capable of contacting
necessary staff to keep everyone safe as possible. On previous occasions I've completed speech
therapy referrals do to language barriers caused by medical disabilities or medical conditions.
9. Addressing Mature Workers’ needs (4)
Never too Mature to learn
PLATO online learning materials provide self-paced
learning paths for Essential Skills, with assessments at
levels required by occupations.
Where secondary school credentials are required, PLATO
identifies gaps and provides remediation in preparation
for GED.
PLATO can be used for college preparation – to brush up
on “rusty skills” prior to beginning a vocational training
program, or to meet college entrance requirements.
10. Lessons Learned
Mature Workers are delighted to see evidence of the skills
they have acquired over a lifetime – and to realize that
these skills apply in new, untried occupations.
Employers appreciate resumes that demonstrate abilities.
Implementation of ESPORT should be built into a
program’s plan; and should relate to concrete goals of
participants.
Facilitators require monitoring and support (technology,
methodology, and objectives).
11. Some organizations using ESPORT
Colleges; e.g. Northlands College, SK
Social services; e.g. City of Ottawa and Willis College,
ON
Sunset industry and union; Myrt Turner Associates
and United Steelworkers, Prince George, BC
Aboriginal; e.g. Gabriel Dumont Institute, SK
Health care provider and union; Menorah Park and
SEIU, Syracuse, NY
Rehabilitation; e.g. John Howard Society, Sault Ste.
Marie, ON
12. Contact Information
Patrick Cummins
CEP Consulting Inc.
patrick.cummins@cep-
consulting.com
Phone: 613 225-3808
www.esportfolio.com
Grant Bishop
Eskilon Learning Solutions Inc.
gbishop@eskilonlearning.ca
Phone: 905 815-1303
www.eskilonlearning.ca
