Developing a First Nation community skills inventory

Auteurs-es

  • Devon MacKinnon-Ottertail

Résumé

First Nation communities have been presented a stronger role in mining and forestry developments by recent court judgements on governments’ duty to consult. Negotiations with mining companies have often included employment for community members in any Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).  When jobs are presented by mining companies, the forestry industry, and other employers, there is no current system for First Nation Administrators to determine if community members have the pre-requisite skills, experience and qualifications that the employer is looking for and this has led to missed opportunities.

To act on these prospects, Eagle Lake First Nation (ELFN) developed a system for tracking any training offered by the Band and created a skills inventory for additional training and certifications that community members have completed either on-reserve or off-reserve. This paper will document the development of this system.

Keywords: First Nations, employment, recruitment, human resources, skills, community skills inventory, Ontario, Canada.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Devon MacKinnon-Ottertail

Devon MacKinnon-Ottertail is a band member of Lac La Croix First Nation. She worked as the Economic Development & Community Planner for Eagle Lake First Nation from 2012-2014 before accepting a new position. She is currently a Philanthropy Associate with Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Devon has completed the University of Waterloo’s Year 1 and 2 courses in community economic development and has obtained her Certificate in Local Government: Community Economic Development from Dalhousie University. She is a member of CANDO and EDAC.

Devon is an avid community volunteer and is mother to a teenage daughter.

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Publié-e

2017-02-06

Numéro

Vol. 16

Rubrique

Articles