Formative Evaluator's Report: Bridging the Gap, Phase II (Appendices)
  • I would go through it again if I had the opportunity. It went very well right on through. Sometimes the workers were discouraged, but that is life.
  • On every program you can pick holes. It was as good as programs go.
  • Gave him a totally different outlook on hiring people and their education levels.
  • Great program. The participants are fitting in well. Certain people don't fit in certain classifications at first. He'd like the option to be able to keep people in one area and train them for a specific duty. But he understands they have to train and be exposed to all aspects of everything. Hopefully the will fit in their proper categories they are suited for.
  • Excellent. We as a company really enjoyed it. It has been very beneficial to us. Right now we have a trained workforce to draw upon. We are expanding and we will be hiring them. It did give us a feel for working with a large number of employees. All of sudden there were nine in there. This was a learning experience on our part.
  • Timing was really good for us – we are growing and we will need more people. There are people trained and interested.
  • Once selected, things went very quickly – everyone pulled together as a team very quickly. It proved to him that there was a lot of support for the project and a good team to work with.
  • The benefits of this program is the tailoring of the training to his workplace. The [Provincial Co–ordinator] gets 100% for the concept of the integration of the academic and the practical component. It can be a major success and government would get a much better value.
  • He'd be delighted to do it again.
  • The delight is the training can be tailored directly to the workplace and the personalities of the employees.
  • Gives him the ability to size up the people over the 40 weeks. This is a big piece of it. He gets to see their attitudes and how they conduct themselves in the workplace. He gets to see them.
  • They find it difficult to do the employment guarantee so far in advance.