INDUSTRY TRAINING – PASSPORT TO EMPLOYMENT at Canadian Kraft Paper Industries Cohort 2

Overview 

In collaboration with Canadian Kraft Paper, the Northern Manitoba Sector Council (NMSC) coordinated the development and delivery of Industry Training – Passport to Employment @ CKP, in the Pas, MB for 10 participants from The Pas and surrounding areas.  Successful participants of this program would be hired Full-time by Canadian Kraft paper.   

Program planning and development began in the fall of 2024, this being the second (2^nd) train to employee program that we have initiated with Canadian Kraft Paper.  After carefully reviewing the successes/failures of our previous Program with CKP, we changed the outline of this project slightly to provide better engagement from students. 

Program/Project to Consist of the following: 

• Start date of February 10^th, 2025. 

• Five (2) weeks of Essential Skills Training, Life Skills provided by WEM.  Training took place @ CKP Administrative Building. 

• One (1) week of Forestry Training, recommended by CKP and provided by Juha Jarvinen Consulting. 

• Approx 4 weeks of Job Shadowing and onboarding CKP 

• Successful completion and passing mark for the SSR Exam required by CKP for any full-time employment. 

TRAINING SCHEDULE – 9 WEEKS: 

Essential Skills Assessments (ESA) – SSR Exam 1^st Attempt 

• SSR Exam (1^st Attempt) allowed WEM to determine the areas of upskilling that would be required for those participants that would be required to re-write the areas of the SSR Exam and successfully pass. 

• WEM provided the Exam to the students on January 11, 2025. 

Workplace Education Manitoba (2) weeks 

• Essential Skills Training was delivered for Reading, Document Use, Writing, Numeracy and Digital Technology (based on SSR results) 

• Essential Skills Workshops; Safety Mindset, Communicating in the Workplace. 

• Personal Management Skills – included decision making, positive attitude, stressors choices, motivations, affirmations. 

• 4 Students completed the Project, 2 being offered full-time employment and 1 accepting their offer. 

• 4 Students being removed from the program due to positive testing during the drug & alcohol screening (Mandatory Testing CKP) 

• 1 student removed due to very poor attendance 

All-in-classroom training for the entire duration of this project was held at CKP in their training room.  Transportation was the responsibility of each student; there were no issues.  Students were paid by NMSC on a bi-weekly basis.