Establishing a Baseline for Training Literacy and Numeracy at Bristol-Myers Squibb

At its Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Candiac, Québec, Bristol-Myers Squibb recently assessed the skill levels of all employees without a university degree and provided development opportunities to help them address skill gaps.

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The company has taken an active approach to refreshing its employees’ skills and documenting their competencies. The most innovative aspects of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s workplace education program are the company’s policy of offering remedial training only in areas where employees demonstrated gaps in basic skills, its longer term commitment to developing trades people and operators, and its treatment of initial basic skills tests and remediation as a baseline against which to measure the success of future training.