Alberta. Department of Career Development and Employment fonds
- PAA paa-6796
- Fonds
- 1968-1989
Fonds consists of records of the department created through the performance of the following mandated activities:;providing career counselling services, including information, counselling, planning and testing services to assist individuals in making career choices,;providing employment placement and training services,;administration and operation of Alberta Career Development Centres,;identifying present and future workplace skills requirements,;recruiting from outside the province workers with skills identified as those in which the province's workforce is deficient,;providing employment, training, and settlement services to immigrants,;providing resettlement counselling services to Albertans,;providing skills training programs and coordinating private provision of skills training,;certifying individuals engaged in trades designated under Part 3 of the Manpower Development Act,;performing research on the Alberta labour market, composition of the province's workforce, and skills needs of the province's economy in support of planning and policy and program development,;creating and administering special manpower development programs and projects for the unemployed and individuals with special training needs,;creating information management systems to support apprenticeship training and tradesman certification programs,;performing strategic planning functions, and;performing financial and other administrative support services. The fonds includes records of the Deputy Minister's office, the offices of various Assistant Deputy Ministers, and various divisions and branches of the department. The fonds is made up of administrative and operational records, including correspondence and subject files, samples of various types of case files containing application forms, testing results, counselling notes and application assessments, records of departmental, interdepartmental, and intergovernmental committees and task forces, including minutes, agendas and reports, information systems manuals, policy and position papers, briefing notes and issues books, forms, licenses and certificates, contracts and agreements, registers of apprenticeship contracts, requests for decision, planning papers, statistical reports, reference material, publications, and press releases. The records have been arranged into the following series (many continue from Department of Advanced Education and Manpower series):;Apprenticeship contract registers;Career centres administrative records;Career Development Centre Calgary sample client case files;Career Development Centre Edmonton sample client case files;Career Development Centre Hinton sample client case files;Career Development Centre Red Deer sample client case files;Career Development Centre St. Paul administrative records;Career Development Centre Whitecourt administrative records;Career planning and job search training videocassettes;College program development records;Communications and public relations records;Counselling and relocation services sample client case files;Department executive records;Employment Initiatives Programs sample client case files;Program delivery administrative records;Hire-a-19Student Program administrative and operational records;Immigration and settlement services administrative and general operational records;Manpower services executive records;Personnel administrative records;Personnel grievance records;Special manpower programs administrative records;Systems development records;Training and employment programs administrative records;Training and employment programs sample client case files;Training and employment programs task force records;Program planning administrative records;Vocational training programs development records
Alberta. Department of Career Development and Employment