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Tapping Underutilized Talent: The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) Private Sector Engagement Forum May 10 &am

Tapping Underutilized Talent: The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) Private Sector Engagement Forum May 10 &11, 2006. Background. The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) is an employer engagement strategy shaped by:. BC’s 10 First Nations AHRDAs ACCESS - Urban AHRDA

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Tapping Underutilized Talent: The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) Private Sector Engagement Forum May 10 &am

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  1. Tapping Underutilized Talent: The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS)Private Sector Engagement Forum May 10 &11, 2006

  2. Background The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) is an employer engagement strategy shaped by: • BC’s 10 First Nations AHRDAs • ACCESS - Urban AHRDA • Metis AHRDA • Aboriginal Post-Secondary Coordinators • BC Association of Friendship Centers • Employer representatives • Service Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs (INAC), and the Ministry for Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation (MARR). BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy

  3. Program Design • The BCAWS is designed to: • Identify real and pertinent information about a company’s employment and economic opportunities and to share this information with Aboriginal Employment, Training, Education and business interest organizations in order that they will become more aware of the career, procurement and training opportunities within our partner companies. • Build the capacity of our partner companies to effectively recruit and engage the aboriginal community by playing a facilitative role to link our partner companies with the Aboriginal community so that they may develop strategies and action plans for working together to increase aboriginal workforce participation. BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy

  4. Program Components • Signing Ceremony • Employer Steering Committee/Internal Working Group. • Workplace Assessment • Aboriginal Employment Strategy • Occupational Inventory • Procurement Inventory • Aboriginal Awareness Training BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy

  5. Program Successes! On January 12th & 13th, 2006, Aboriginal Job Seekers attended an exciting Job Fair with one of our employer partners, Thrifty Foods. BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy

  6. Program Successes! March 2004 - BCAWS/VPD Partnership Signing 12 Aboriginal officers March 2006 20 Aboriginal officers 60% increase BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy

  7. BCAWS Signed Agreements * Interior Health Authority – May 10th, 2006 Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) March 7, 2005 City of Vancouver – November 16, 2004 Thrifty Foods – November 15, 2004 Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of BC (ICBA) – October 28, 2004 City of Fort St. John – June 14, 2004 BC Construction Association (BCCA) – June 10, 2004 Duke Energy Gas Transmission – March 15, 2004 Vancouver City Police – March 2, 2003 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) – July 10, 2003 London Drugs – June 4, 2003 City of Dawson Creek – November 1, 2002 Vancouver Island Health Authority – June 20, 2002 Royal Roads University – June 3, 2002

  8. More Information? Please Contact: Nadine Hoehne, BCAWS Implementation Coordinator 604-230-9025 Nadinehoehne@shaw.ca Sheryl Engdahl, BCAWS Implementation Coordinator 604-992-4253 Sengdahl@mnbc.ca

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