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Easy Reading
Find easy-to-read information to help you answer common questions about going to school and working in Alberta.
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Inspire and Motivate

Easy Reading Job Profiles

Use the Easy Reading Job Profiles to help clients with low literacy pursue their employment goals. You can view the profiles individually or by occupational cluster.
Inspire and Motivate

Easy Reading Dictionary

In easy-to-read English, this online dictionary explains everything from apprenticeship to works well under pressure terms found in the Easy Reading Job Profiles.
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Easy Reading Be Safe at Work

Discover Alberta’s workplace health and safety rules in easy-to-read English. Includes personal stories, labelled safety diagrams, hazard descriptions and a WHMIS explanation. Teaching notes available.
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Easy Reading Keep Your Job

This work-related guide uses stories and exercises to help Albertans with low literacy skills keep their job. Easy Reading Keep Your Job covers important topics such as: what employers want, building good work skills and attitudes, workplace rights and responsibilities and making sure their job is a good fit. Readers are encouraged to contact their career advisor or tutor for help when using this book.
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Easy Reading Job Profiles: Help for Career Advisors

Support low-literacy clients as they plan their careers. This guide offers tips on using Easy Reading Job Profiles as well as reference charts and information on occupational clusters.
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Succeed at Work

Learn What’s on Your Pay Stub

Along with your pay, your employer must give you a pay stub. Your pay stub has important information on it. This Easy Reading article will help you learn what the information means.
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Succeed at Work

Rules of Getting Paid for Work

When you work, how will you get paid? How much should you get paid? And how often? This Easy Reading article will help you learn about the laws in Alberta.
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Succeed at Work

Work Laws About Hourly Pay

This Easy Reading article will help you learn about the work laws related to the hours you work, including how your wage is affected when you work extra hours.
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