• Review the job advertisement for academic instructors and consult with the College to ensure that the most suitable academic instructors are hired for the Bridging the Gap Program – not selecting instructors just because they are next on the seniority list. Instructors selected should go through an interviewing process. Important for the College to set up some guidelines to say that Bridging the Gap is different from traditional programs, and state that it is a 45-week contract and that the instructor has to commit to the full program. The instructor's length of work day should be the same as the participant's work day. Curriculum design time to be included in the regular work day. There needs to be room for flexibility.

From the Employment Partners

Overall perception of the program

• Pretty good – it is a good program. It would have been nice if we could have started it 10 years ago.
• The clients had a lot to learn. There are a lot of things to learn when farming. You have to be a Jack of all trades. They started at the end of the crop cycle and they are working backwards. Safety is a big issue.
• The screening process concerns them a lot.
• Don't like the difference in wages between HRE and HRCC clients
• I am delighted and amazed by the interest of the clients and how much they have put into it.
• He is very enthusiastic that all of them will hopefully will have a job at that time. Working out better than he had thought. He was a bit leery on it at first. Especially about the education level. They wouldn't have gotten hired.