Job and career training in Vancouver, Canada is very important
Canadian employers are falling behind their international counterparts when it comes to employee training, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
According to Learning and Development Outlook 2005 not only are employers not investing enough, they’re failing to allocate training dollars in ways that lead to strong business performance.
Canadian organizations spent an average of $914 per employee in 2004, an increase from $824 in 2003. By comparison, organizations in the United States averaged per employee expenditures of $1,135 (converted to Canadian dollars) in 2003, the most recent
American data available, Canada also dropped from 12th place in 2002 to 20th in 2004 in the Institute for Management Development’s Competitiveness Survey which compares the priority that organizations place on employee training.
Canada is on par or just above some of its major trading partners, such as the U.S., the United Kingdom and France. But Scandinavian countries, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and emerging economies such as Singapore and Malaysia are placing a higher priority on training, putting Canada’s global innovation position at risk.
Percentage selecting as most important for attaining adequate income.
When asked which of the various services mentioned in the previous question was likely to have the strongest postive impact on individuals ability to become self sufficient, job training received the highest percentage of responses by far.
Almost 50% of respondents felt that job training was vital for improving the self-sufficiency of individuals (see picture below). Over 10% of respondents listed literacy (including GED, ESL, and Citizenship classes) as most important for creating self-sufficiency.
Job Training
Following up on the importance of job training for creating self-sufficiency, one survey asked whether or not respondents or other members of their family had received any job training in the past twelve months.
If someone had received training, they were asked the relationship of that individual to the respondent and whether they were satisfied with the job training experienced (see Figures 26 & 27 ).
About 10% of the respondents reported that they or a family member had received employment training. Of those receiving training, most were the respondents themselves (about 38%) or their child(ren) (about 26%). About fifteen percent reported that their spouse received the training and over 20% said that another family member received the training.
Most of those who received employment training or whose family members received the training were very positive about the experience (see Figure 28). About 40% said the training was excellent, abut 27% reported it was very good and over 25% said it was good. Only about 7% of respondents the training was only fair, and only about 2% reported it was poor.