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Skills Centre
2025-04-01
Resume Tips for 2025
Skills Centre
2025-03-19
Trail identifies priorities for poverty reduction
Skills Centre
2025-03-07
Skills Centre executive director receives King’s Coronation Medal
Skills Centre
2025-02-12
You can contribute as a board member
Skills Centre
2025-01-28
“Good food and meeting new people”
Dan Wall
2025-01-16
Community comes together for Coldest Night of the Year
Dan Wall
2024-11-21
Trail’s living wage up 6% as cost of living continues to soar
Dan Wall
2024-11-20
Helping women find their place in the trades
Dan Wall
2024-09-17
Meet Sara Cameron, one of our new board members
Dan Wall
2024-09-13
Local opportunities to help end working poverty in Trail
Dan Wall
2024-08-07
Meet Edward, our new maintenance pro
Dan Wall
2024-07-03
Investing locally theme of Skills Centre community impact
Dan Wall
2024-06-18
Meet our newest Emily
Dan Wall
2024-06-14
Community Discussion: Ending Working Poverty
Dan Wall
2024-05-16
Born to be a bricklayer
Dan Wall
2024-03-14
Art for HEART’s sake
Dan Wall
2024-03-08
No shock to find women electricians a rarity
Dan Wall
2024-02-15
What horses teach us about ourselves
Dan Wall
2024-02-06
No holding back: drywalling is the right trade for women
Dan Wall
2024-02-01
Stepping up for Coldest Night of the Year walk
Dan Wall
2024-01-30
No horsing around – HEART heals people
Skills Centre
2024-01-09
HEART gets you in shape with yoga & life coaching
Skills Centre
2023-12-01
Trail takes bold steps to end working poverty
Dan Wall
2023-11-21
What a living wage does & doesn’t do
Dan Wall
2023-11-17
Your Coldest Night of the Year contributions are at work in the kitchen
Dan Wall
2023-10-24
Welcome Lori Ketchuk, our new CFO
Dan Wall
2023-09-27
4 Day Work Week Update
Dan Wall
2023-08-01
Meet Zoë Dowdall, our newest project specialist
Dan Wall
2023-07-27
Leveling the playing field for recreation & leisure
Dan Wall
2023-07-21
Welcome Tina, our newest project specialist
Dan Wall
2023-07-05
Change & growth theme of Skills Centre’s impact in the community
Dan Wall
2023-06-23
Liz Anderson joins Skills Centre board
Dan Wall
2023-06-16
Lila Cresswell retires from the board
Dan Wall
2023-05-17
Don’t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway
Skills Centre
2023-04-14
Start with HEART – we’ve got a new employment-readiness program!
Alia Locken
2023-03-07
Women are setting records in employment, so why is employment equality not changing, too?
Skills Centre
2023-03-01
The benefits of hiring mature workers
Alia Locken
2023-02-01
Angst about the economy? You are not alone.
Alia Locken
2023-01-24
Low unemployment rate continues in the Kootenays
Skills Centre
2023-01-18
Where are all those jobs we’re hearing about?
Alia Locken
2022-12-13
Women reach record high employment
Alia Locken
2022-11-18
October’s given us a lot to talk about!
Skills Centre
2022-11-09
Mature Workers Retirement Blog November 2022
Skills Centre
2022-10-21
Meet Heather
Alia Locken, Research Officer
2022-10-18
Employers, Job Seekers, Employees – how are you doing?
Skills Centre
2022-10-13
Meet Sandi Oorthuis
Alia Locken
2022-09-14
August labour market data is in, so what’s changed?
Alia Locken
2022-08-10
What do the latest employment numbers mean for you?
Karina Allis
2022-07-22
Is this a real job posting?
Skills Centre
2022-07-14
Helping people in our communities
Skills Centre
2022-07-12
Cover letter tips to wow the employer
Skills Centre
2022-05-06
Get set for summer at our Service Industry Bootcamp
Dan Wall
2022-04-21
Roberta Post marks 23 years on Skills Centre board of directors
Dan Wall
2022-04-05
You can contribute as a board member
Dan Wall
2022-03-29
Community Kitchens participants take the cake
Skills Centre
2022-02-25
10 Resume Tips to Help You Succeed
Skills Centre
2022-01-26
The Case for the 4 Day Work Week
Skills Centre
2022-01-20
Community Kitchens returning to downtown Trail
Skills Centre
2021-10-06
Your Mature Workers Facilitator: Karina Allis
Skills Centre
2021-10-06
Fruitvale now a Living Wage Employer
Skills Centre
2021-10-06
Skills Centre embraces four-day work week
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