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Overskilled and Underused? What PIAAC Reveals About the Canadian Workforceexternal link icon

Content from: HigherEd Strategy, Alex Usher | April 24, 2025 Today my guest is the CEO of Canada’s Future Skills Centre, Noel Baldwin. Over the past decade, both in his roles at FSC, his previous ones at the Council Minister of Education Canada, he’s arguably been one of the country’s most dedicated users of PIAAC data. As part of Canada’s delegation to the OECD committee in charge of PIAAC, he also had a front row seat to the development of these tests and the machinery behind these big international surveys.
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Two new AI tools to help you land a jobexternal link icon

Content from: Betakit, Jacqueline Loganathan | March 13, 2025 Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from behind the scenes to the front lines of hiring. Companies are now relying on AI to sift through résumés, rank candidates, and forecast job performance, sometimes before humans even get involved. Speed and automation now help dictate who gets a foot in the door.
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More Canadians to benefit from skills development through expansion of promising solutions by Future Skills Centre

FSC is pleased to announce a new investment of $14.3 million to expand more than a dozen innovative approaches to skills development addressing the urgent need to ensure Canada’s workforce is resilient and prepared for the future.
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Open Call for Expressions of Interest to Provide Evaluation And Learning Support

FSC seeks to engage external evaluators to support its knowledge generation and evaluation objectives.
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The Future of Skills in the Tradesexternal link icon

Content from: thefutureeconomy.ca By: Brynn Bourke and Noel Baldwin | February 18, 2025
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Canadians need better skills training and recognition to tackle 21st century challengesexternal link icon

While Canada gets decent grades in numeracy, literacy and problem-solving, the country is not a superstar performer.
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L’intelligence artificielle menace 810 000 emplois au Québecexternal link icon

Contenu provenant de : lapresse.ca | 15 janvier 2025 Comme toutes les nouvelles technologies, l’arrivée de l’intelligence artificielle dans nos vies fait craindre des pertes d’emplois dans plusieurs secteurs d’activité. Au Québec, 810 000 personnes, soit 18 % de la main-d’œuvre totale, occupent un emploi vulnérable au développement de l’intelligence artificielle, selon une étude de l’Institut du Québec.
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Getting Canadians Ready for the Future of Skillsexternal link icon

FSC Executive Director Noel Baldwin chats with Stefano Scarpetta and Lynette Plett about the recent OECD PIAAC survey.
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AI could affect 800,000 Quebec jobs, new study shows. Here's who might be at riskexternal link icon

Content from: CBC.ca | January 16, 2025 Experts say while artificial intelligence could replace some jobs, it can also be a useful tool for others. Nevertheless, a new study says it will have an effect on a large portion of the province’s workforce, hitting specific demographics harder than others.