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Barriers to Immigrants’ Employment: Do Employers Recognize Foreign Experience, Qualifications and Credentials?
Canada seeks to attract immigrants who are highly skilled or well-educated. But it’s often difficult for immigrants to find jobs that make use of their skills, particularly when employers don’t recognize the work experience or qualifications they earned before moving to Canada.
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Building a Strong and Inclusive Workforce: Neurodiversity Research in Action
Canada’s labour market is evolving, and critical skills gaps are making it harder for businesses to find the talent they need. At the same time, neurodivergent Canadians — a highly capable yet underrepresented talent pool — face barriers to employment.
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What’s Past is Prologue
What we learned about adult skills in Canada from the first cycle of PIAAC, and what we still need to explore.
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Using AI Programs at Work: How Canadians are Reacting to Technological Change in the Workplace
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are attracting attention for their potential to bring significant changes to the workplace, some of them positive (more productivity and creativity) and some negative (more automation and unemployment). Here’s a summary of some recent survey findings about how workers in Canada are reacting.
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Advancing Canada’s Bioeconomy: How BIOVECTRA is Addressing the Biomanufacturing Skills Shortage
The biomanufacturing industry faces a pressing challenge: a sector-wide skills shortage projected to reach 65,000 workers by 2029.
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What is PIAAC and Why Does It Matter?
Skills provide an essential foundation for employment, health, individual and community well-being, economic growth, and active and informed citizenship.
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Is unemployment a public health issue?
In case you missed it, there’s a new report on unemployment in Canada from the Survey on Employment and Skills looking at the reasons why some people fall out...
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Paying for skills training: Why employers need to act more strategically
At a time of rapid change in the workplace, access to skills training is key to workers’ success. Workers cannot expect that the knowledge and...
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The Role of Newcomers in the Path to Recovery for the Accommodation and Food Industry
The accommodation and food sector was hit hard by the pandemic and is still struggling to recover. According to the Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot,...