Work hard. Get a promotion. Work harder. Get another promotion. And climb that corporate ladder. That's the script a lot of us grew up with. But according to a 2025 study from Deloitte, that's not what some younger workers are interested in doing. The study found only 6 per cent of Gen Z workers want to move into a leadership position. Instead, they want things like more work/life balance. Flexibility. Mental health. We talk to Tricia Williams, the director of Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Mobilization at TMU's Future Skills Centre, about how young professionals are redefining the way they work.

Amid a focus on large-scale, nation-building projects, the workforce needed to pull this strategy off is the topic of discussion at the ECO Impact Conference in Calgary tomorrow. For more, we spoke with Noel Baldwin, the Executive Director at the Future Skills Centre.

AI is reshaping entry-level jobs in ways that could weaken young workers’ career pathways, experts say

In a Q&A interview, Baldwin talked with Research Money’s managing editor Mark Lowey about: how Canadian workers can keep upskilling in the face of automation and rapid technological change; how young people can gain the right skills in finding employment; the value of formal and information education and work-integrated learning; how government can help workers who need transition in their careers; Canada’s labour market strengths; and the aim of FSC’s recently launched Resilient Workforce Working Table.

Le Programme de formation pour les compétences et l’emploi destiné aux Autochtones est une initiative fédérale qui aide les organisations et les communautés autochtones à concevoir et à offrir des services d’emploi et de formation professionnelle adaptés à leur culture.

En mai 2025, le Centre des compétences futures et Jelly Academy Inc. ont coorganisé un symposium de deux jours sur les carrières autochtones innovantes et les compétences d’avenir. La première journée de l’événement était axée sur le développement de relations, de la confiance et d’une compréhension mutuelle entre les personnes participantes. La deuxième journée portait sur le renforcement des liens avec de grands bailleurs de fonds et sur des discussions visant à mieux coordonner les efforts de financement afin d’investir dans des projets dirigés par des Autochtones.

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Investing properly in the tools and training that workers need, while also embracing AI, could give the country a major productivity boost, experts say.