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About the Department

• Minister
• Mandate
• Seven Lines of Business
• Branches and Divisions
• Agencies
• Staff
• Legislation
• The People We Serve

• helping people find jobs and plan their careers
  • visit Finding a Job
  • visit Planning Your Career
• supporting employers to increase access to the workers they need
  • visit the Employers section
• attracting immigrants and supporting communities to welcome them
  • visit the Immigration site
• providing financial support to people with little or no income
  • visit Income Support
• enhancing the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society
  • visit the Persons with Disabilities section
• helping youth to develop leadership skills and participate in their communities
  • visit the Students section
• leading a strategy to reduce poverty
  • visit Poverty Reduction
• supporting people during disasters
  • visit the Support during Disasters section

Advanced Education and Skills is focused on human resource and labour market development. Through the delivery of employment, human resource and income supports, Advanced Education and Skills strives to help people’s social and economic outcomes. Advanced Education and Skills develops and implements innovative approaches to labour market challenges, through partnerships with clients, business, labour, community agencies and other government departments. This includes specific strategies to attract and retain youth and immigrants, and to improve labour market participation of current and potential workers, especially underrepresented groups. Advanced Education and Skills provides supports to employers in accessing the employees they need, takes measures to reduce poverty and provides a social safety net for individuals and families.

Mandate

The mandate of the Department of Advanced Education and Skills is to support human resource and labour market development by providing leadership, coordination, programs and services in the following areas:

1. Career and Employment Services
2. Immigration and multiculturalism
3. Poverty Reduction
4. Youth engagement
5. Support for persons with disabilities
6. Income Support Services
7. Emergency social services

Vision

Newfoundland and Labrador will have a diverse, prosperous population with a labour supply that meets the social and economic aspirations of the province.

Mission

By 2011, the department will have enhanced supports and services to people to increase their participation in the labour market and to employers to ensure they have the human resources required to compete and contribute to a prosperous future for the province.

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Seven Lines of Business:

1. Labour Market Development
2. Career and Employment Services
3. Immigration and Multiculturalism
4. Youth Engagement
5. Persons with Disabilities
6. Income Support Services
7. Emergency Social Services

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Staff

There are approximately 600 staff (approximately 73% female and 27% male) in 28 locations. Services are delivered in the four regions: Avalon, Central, Western and Labrador and there is also one provincial office located in St. John's. This complement of staff and locations make Advanced Education and Skills one of the largest departments in the Provincial Government. Please call if you have any questions or concerns.

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The People We Serve

The department works in cooperation with other provincial departments and federal and municipal governments to serve;

Individuals who are:

• unemployed and underemployed
• affected by industry adjustment
• seeking to start a business
• seeking to change jobs
• high school students
• students or graduates of post secondary educational institutions
• new or prospective immigrants
• seeking spousal and child support
• needing employment supports, career planning or labour market information
• needing a supplement to earnings
• requiring support as a result of loss of income, disability, illness, homelessness, violence or disaster

Employers who are seeking assistance with:

• Human resource planning
• Recruitment and retention
• Workplace supports, such as wage subsidies and financial assistance for workplace training

Organizations and community groups that support:

• Human resource and labour market development, including labour, business, industry and non-profit sectors
• Youth engagement
• Immigration and multiculturalism
• Poverty reduction
• Persons with disabilities.

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