Facing a skilled worker shortage? NAITFind, a new initiative of NAIT Business Development, matches labour needs of organizations throughout Alberta with highly skilled individuals from Canada and around the globe. Dean of Business Development, Jeff Sundquist, says "Many of our corporate clients have responded positively to the prospect of NAIT using its resources to find workers as skilled as our graduates!"

Our full service employment organization focuses on assisting companies to fill their labour demand with accomplished, NAIT-trained Canadian and foreign graduates.

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Everyone involved in alcohol sales and service will soon be required to complete ASIP certification.The Alberta Server Intervention Program (ASIP), is a provincially-recognized program which is mandatory under Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission policy. Now available at NAIT, this training will help promote the responsible sale and service of liquor in both service and retailenvironments. Implementation will be phased in over the next five years,requiring one trained employee within the first year, to eventually allliquor retailers and servers trained by January, 2010.

This certification is designed to assist both servers and retailers to fulfill social responsibilities, minimize liabilities and prevent customers from foreseeable harm.

NAIT's five-hour course runs Sunday, May 15, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.
Fee: $50.00

For more details phone 378.5383
email: melissah@nait.ca

Young people and career-changers looking for a way into employment in the trades can now study for 16 short weeks and earn credit for the 1st period Apprenticeship technical training. The Steamfitter-Pipefitter Pre-Trades program will run May 2 to August 19, 2005 in response to increased need for skilled workers in this area.
"Employers attending the planning session for this program expressed their need to have new employees well versed in safety, measuring, tool use and terminology along with those ever so important employment skills of punctuality, attendance, communications and teamwork," says Laurier Ouimet,Manager of Corporate and Industry Training. "NAIT pre-trade programs address these issues - our students are job-ready by the time they graduate."

Details and application information: www.nait.ca/steamfitter

Last month's winner of a Continuing Education course from the Spring/Summer Calendar 2005 was Qi Wang of Edmonton. Congratulations!

Forward NAIT Training Track to a friend who may be interested in NAIT training for themselves or for their business.

When they subscribe, their name will automatically be entered in this month's draw for a $300 voucher toward any course in the NAIT-IT May - August 2005 Calendar.