Author: Skills Team

THE LAST HUMAN FREEDOM

28 January 2017
Categories: thinking

In his bestseller, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, Stephen R Covey outlines how Nazi survivor Viktor Frankl discovered what he called the “last human freedom“.  This was the freedom we all have to choose our response to any stimulus.  Frankl believed that in between the Stimulus and the Response, lies “space” or time.   This is time to choose your response to what has happened.  In our workplaces today, we encounter situations, co-workers and supervisors that challenge us.  Our gift, is that there is time to choose how we respond.  Those workers, and Supervisors who use that space and the Freedom to Choose their response, can contribute to a winning workplace culture.  The last human freedom is our Freedom to Choose for the betterment of the relationship and our own self improvement.

UPCOMING OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING

27 January 2017
Categories: happening

 

Confined Space – March 1, 2017 (Wed)

Fall Arrest – March 2, 2017 (Thu)

H2S Alive – March 3, 2017 (Fri)

OFA Level 1 – March 4, 2017 (Sat)

Foodsafe Level 1 – March 6, 2017 (Mon)

Counterbalanced Forklift – March 14 & 15, 2017 – (Wed/Thu)

Call to reserve your spot today!

APPLICATIONS STILL BEING ACCEPTED: MATRIX EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM & CERTIFICATIONS

13 January 2017
Categories: working

Matrix Employment program is accepting applications for the next intake.  This is a FREE program of employability skills training and essential industry certifications delivered at the Princeton Skills Centre through program funding from the Canada-British Columbia Jobs Fund.  

Eligibility is restricted to those who have not had an EI claim in the last 3 years, and are currently unemployed.  Perfect for recent graduates, and those workers who have not established an EI claim.

Call Leah at the Skills Centre or stop in to discuss your suitability for this program and its suitability for your career plans.  Delivery timeline is beginning February through mid March.

UPCOMING COURSES

13 January 2017
Categories: happening

Two courses in the planning stages.

OFA Level 3 Re-certification:  If you have a current OFA 3 ticket that is going to expire soon, call us to add your name to a list of interested students for recertification.  This is a 5 day training course with a 6th day for examination.  We are tentatively planning near the end of February.

Foodsafe Level 1: A 1 day course suitable for anyone entering food service industry.  We are gathering names to add to a current list of students.  Looking for an ideal class of 8 people so if you are interested call our office to add your name to this list.  February offering – Monday or Friday schedule.

Phone: 250-295-4051

CHANGE IS COMING

13 January 2017
Categories: thinking

Gloria Steinem once said that dreaming is a form of planning.  Steven Covey in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People said that all things are created twice.  There is the mental or the first creation and then the physical or second creation.

Change is inevitable.  Organizations that embrace change, even seek it out by creating visions of their future and then working towards these visions, are organizations that survive.  At the Princeton Skills Centre we are 20 years strong and are embracing our Vision 2020 mental creation of our next phase.  We’re dreaming, planning, and changing.  This is going to be an exciting time

Canada Student Summer Jobs Grant for Employers

23 December 2016
Categories: working

Calling all Employers.  If you are interested in hiring a student for the summer 2017, consider applying for a grant to assist in the costs.  Deadline for application is January 20, 2017!

 

 

 

 

CAREER DIY

23 December 2016
Categories: thinking

You are the BOSS of you… RIGHT?  Do you know what your Career Highlights were this year?  When was the last time you owned your Career & Professional Development?  Part of managing your career is taking stock on your last year’s projects, skill development, and, setting some goals for yourself. We found this article from the Career Contessa that will show you how to DIY your own Performance Review!

Go ahead and be a PRO!

 

http://www.careercontessa.com/conversations/diy-annual-review/

Let us help you TRAIN today, for a better WAGE tomorrow!

29 November 2016
Categories: happening

2017 is shaping up to be a GREAT year already! PRINCETON has been awarded 2 Sessions of Skills Training for Eligible Job Seekers!!!

  • $2,500+ In INDUSTRY CERTIFICATES!
  • H2S ALIVE – STANDARD FIRST AID – IVES FORKLIFT – TRANSPORTATION ENDORSEMENT – CSTS FALL PROTECTION – TDG – TRADES SKILLS PREP
  • Eligible participants must be unemployed, not in school full-time and employment ready!

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CONTACT LEAH TODAY TO APPLY! call 250-295-4051 or email JOBCOACH@PRINCETONCSC.COM

BREAK THE RULES

18 November 2016
Categories: thinking

Mom & Dad gave you sound and solid career advice, but today’s job market and economic conditions might require you to look the other way and Break the Rules.  According to this article in “TheMuse” online publication , there are 5 Things you should be prepared to go against the grain.

 

 Break the Rules