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Mid-Career Workers

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Project

Upskilling/Reskilling Canada's Healthcare Workers

This project incorporated employers' insights into diabetes foot care qualifications, tailored educational pathways to meet clinician needs, and offered culturally sensitive training for Indigenous populations.
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Building Capacity and Skills to Survive Shock for Current and Future Not-for-Profit Managers: A New Approach

This project aimed to develop and test a new skills training model that bridged the academic and not-for-profit sectors. The experiential learning course called “Innovation for Social Impact” was developed and launched to achieve this goal.
Research

Adoption Ready? The AI Exposure of Jobs and Skills in Canada's Public Sector Workforce

This project investigates how artificial intelligence adoption could affect Canada’s public sector workforce, examining whether AI is more likely to assist workers with job tasks or automate those tasks entirely.
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Scale Learning Lab

The Scale Learning Lab was developed to address the hospitality sector’s ongoing talent shortages through an innovative, industry-led training model. By combining digital learning and hands-on training, the Learning Lab provides hospitality professionals with the skills needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving sector.
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Research

Retaining Canada’s Healthcare Workforce: Keeping Talented Workers in Our Health Systemsexternal link icon

This research will examine how healthcare workers move into and within Canada. Through focus groups with representatives from regulatory bodies and healthcare educators and a thorough examination of data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and provincial regulatory bodies, we will develop recommendations for retaining healthcare workers, distinguishing between strategies for domestically or internationally trained professionals.
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Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities

This project, Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities, focused on addressing the employment barriers that persons with disabilities, particularly those aged 35 to 49, face in Canada.
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Work in Manitoba

This project sought to address the challenges employers in the province were facing in connecting with the right talent and having to navigate multiple recruitment platforms with no guarantee that postings would reach qualified candidates.
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Energy to Digital Growth Education and Upskilling Project

The Energy to Digital Growth Education and Upskilling Project (EDGE UP 2.0) is a sector-based training program designed to help displaced mid-career oil and gas professionals transition into IT roles in Calgary.
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Research

Rapid Reskilling to Support Nature-Based Solutions and Green Infrastructure Projects in Canada

The project aimed to retrain workers from the oil, gas, forestry and mining industries, enabling them to transition into roles that support environmental restoration and sustainability through nature-based solutions (NBS).