Help Page on Essential Skills Web Site What is on the Essential Skills Web site? How can I use this site? Help for using the Occupational Profiles Help for using the Authentic Workplace Materials Is the content of this Web site available in different formats? What is behind the buttons? What other help is available on the site? General tips What is on the Essential Skills Web site? The Essential Skills Web site makes available all of the information collected through HRSDC’s Essential Skills Research. There are two main sections of the site. The first is the occupational profiles, which explore how Essential Skills are used in the workplace. The second section is the collection of Authentic Workplace Materials, which provides real examples that show how reading, document use and writing actually used in Canadian workplaces. To learn more about each of these two parts of the site, visit the introduction to the occupational profiles and the introduction to the authentic workplace materials. To learn about the Essential Skills Research project itself, visit the background to the ESRP page.   How can I use this site? The site tour has been specially designed to help you learn what you can do with the information and other resources made available on this site. When you take the site tour, tell us who you are (teacher, student, parent, employer or trainer) and the tour will tell you what this site can do for you. Help for using the Occupational Profiles   Help for using the Collection of Authentic Workplace Materials   Is the content of this Web site available in different formats? If you are interested in having your own CD-ROM (cost of $10.00) that includes all of the Essential Skills Profiles, please contact: National Adult Literacy Database Inc. Scovil House 703 Brunswick Street Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 1H8 Toll free: 1-800-720-6253 Fax: 1-560-457-6910 For more information, please visit the  NALD Web site. If you are interested in owning a hard copy of the collection of Authentic Workplace Materials (cost of $39.99 plus shipping and GST) please contact: Nelson Thomson Learning 1-800-268-2222 and request “Step Into the World of Workplace Learning” ISBN: 0-17-608571-8 What is behind the buttons? Top Bar Use this button anywhere on our site if you have questions or comments or would like more information. Use the Search button to find a specific Occupational Profile or to search the Authentic Workplace Materials using Skills or key words as your search criteria. Use this button to get further information and assistance about the section of the site you are currently visiting. Use this button to switch between the two official languages at any time, anywhere on the site This button provides a direct link to the Government of Canada Web site Second Bar: This button brings you back to the home page, where you can find out what is on the site and have quick access to any part of it. Use this button to get general information about the contents of this site. Use this button to find out how you can use this site. The Human Resources Partnerships Directorate (HRP) is the area within HRSDC that developed this Web site. Use this button to find out more about us. To find out about other sites that might interest you, check out our Related Links. Left Bar : By using this button, you will be taken to the Essential Skills Profile home page for general information about this side of the Web site. Use this button to find out what exactly Essential Skills profiles are, and how you can find the ones you want to use. You can use this button to see a list of all currently available Essential Skills Profiles. For definitions of all terms used in the Essential Skills Profiles and complete explanations of the complexity rating scales used, check out the Reader’s Guide. By using this button, you will be taken to the Authentic Workplace Materials home page for general information about this side of the Web site. Use this button for a general introduction to this side of the Web site, what’s there and how to find what you want. Use this button to see a list of the Authentic Workplace Materials listed by the occupation in which they are used. You can have the materials listed by job title or by National Occupational Classification code. Use this button to see a list of the Authentic Workplace Materials, listed by the type of material they illustrate. Use this button for detailed information about the collection of Authentic Workplace Materials, and how to use them. Check out how others are putting Essential Skills Research to work! The information on this site comes from the Essential Skills Research Project. Use this link to learn all about it. The Essential Skills Profiles are organized according to groups set out by the National Occupational Classification. To learn more about the NOC, you can use this link to their Web site. What other help is available on the site? Depending upon where you are on our Web site, there is specific help available to you. When you are in the Occupational Profiles side of the site, clicking the Help button will get you help specific to that part of the site. Similarly, when you are in the Authentic Workplace Materials side of the site, clicking the Help button will get you help specific to that part of the site. When you are in an Occupational Profile or an Authentic Workplace Material write up, the hypertext words (words in blue, and underlined) can be clicked for an explanation of what they mean. When you are Searching using a search by skills, again the blue, underlined words can be clicked for an explanation of what they mean. General Tips Occupational Profiles should be printed using Landscape format. On all the search pages, hitting the “Enter” key on your keyboard is equivalent to using the mouse to press the “Next” button You can save the profile you are viewing, or any other page for that matter, by going to the menu bar of your browser and selecting “File” followed by “Save as”. If you require additional help in using your browser and its built in functions, you should consult the “Help” files that came with your browser application. To select multiple choices in a multiple selection list, you need to hold down the Control key (on a PC based computer) or the Apple key (on an Apple based computer), and use the mouse to select the choices from the list. Once you have selected the choices you are interested in, you can let go of the key.

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