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COVID-19 dents Canadians’ outlook on employment, but not confidence in their ability to bounce back
COVID-19 dents Canadians’ outlook on employment, but not confidence in their ability to bounce back
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Future Skills Centre and OTEC announce rapid response project for hard-hit tourism and hospitality workers
The project includes an online platform where workers will find immediate services to support resilience during the crisis. Through the platform, displaced workers will access information about COVID-related government benefits, training, certifications, tourism and hospitality job opportunities, and options to work in jobs in related industries.
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Appointment of Julia Rim Shepard as Future Skills Centre’s Director, Strategic Communications
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Julia Rim Shepard to the Future Skills Centre (FSC) team as Director, Strategic Communications. Julia is an exceptional communicator with a 13-year career in the non-profit sector.
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A Skills Agenda for the Future, Now
While yielding to this essential first wave, we at Future Skills Centre (FSC) have focused our energy on building a strategy to support Canada’s shift into the "reset" phase of economic recovery. Helping prepare Canadians to get back to work, with the right skills to succeed now and into the future, will remain crucial in a continuously changing economy.
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Future Skills 2020
The Conference Board of Canada is facilitating the Centre’s first conference, bringing together skills stakeholders from across Canada to prepare today for the workforce of tomorrow.
Thought Leadership
Technology isn’t shaping work the way we think
Work isn’t changing so fast or dramatically, and it’s humans who decide how technology is used. So, we’d better equip ourselves to make better decisions.
Thought Leadership
Can universities bridge the graduate skills gap?
In trying to make graduates more job-ready, universities will have to guard against inadvertently compromising some of their offerings.
Thought Leadership
Deciphering the skills we need for the new world of work
For Canada to have effective training and education policies, it needs to properly classify and define skills and link them to occupational data.
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Using VR, AI to help drivers keep pace with the fast-changing trucking industry
For Shelley Uvanile-Hesch, pursuing the life of a long-distance truck driver was as natural as it was for her father before her. Like him, she was drawn to the open roads, the elevated view of the natural world, the chance to see the four corners of North America, and the opportunity to learn from people she’d meet along the way.