If you live in Peterborough, Northumberland, Kawartha Lakes, or Haliburton and are unemployed, want to re-enter the workforce, or are trying to find a better job, the Workforce Development Board wants to hear from you.
By completing the Worker Impact Survey at workerimpactsurvey.com, you can share information about your employment challenges.
The Workforce Development Board — a not-for-profit organization located in Peterborough and funded by the provincial and federal governments to provide labour market information, coordinate employment and training services, and engage employer communities — will use the results of the survey to help to support local recommendations for training and skills development initiatives.
The 10-minute survey, which is available until April 30th, is completely confidential. Responses will be used for statistical purposes and published in aggregate form only.
The results will be shared with community stakeholders to provide a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the workforce and to increase awareness of the local labour supply, employment barriers for job seekers and those not participating in the labour force, and more.
The Workforce Development Board has joined with five other local workforce planning boards in eastern Ontario (Gananoque, Belleville, Cornwall, Ottawa, and Pembroke) who are also conducting the survey in their respective regions.
“The workforce planning boards of eastern Ontario are collaborating to better understand how workers have been affected by COVID-19, the obstacles workers face finding or keeping gainful employment, and the type of education and skills training supports that workers require across the region,” says Jennifer Lamantia, CEO of the Workforce Development Board.
“By sharing your insights and feedback, you are providing timely, relevant and local data that assists with the work that we can do together at a local level to develop employment-related initiatives.”
In addition to the survey, each workforce planning board will host a focus group. The results of the survey and focus group will be shared in June with the final report publicly available in July.
As an added incentive, those who complete the survey and provide their email address will be eligible for a draw of one of five $100 prepaid VISA cards.
The Worker Impact Survey is available at workerimpactsurvey.com.
