Across Canada
Project
Built to scale: Assessing microcredentials for digital sector professionals
This project explored the uptake of microcredentials within digitally intensive industries in Canada, a field projected to grow and change in coming years. The project used a novel form of labour market information — LinkedIn profiles — to discern differences in skill, occupational seniority, and microcredential certification in the tech labour market in Canada.
Research
State of skills: Effective employer engagement in skills development - From rhetoric to solutions
Supporting employers in overcoming structural barriers to training investment is key to addressing labour and skill shortages.
Project
The Skills Algorithm: Digital Skills Demand Across Canada’s Labour Market
This project used machine-learning methods and data from nine million Canadian job postings collected from January 2020 to June 2023 to understand how demand for digital skills has changed since the pandemic and the importance of non-technical or soft skills even in digital workplaces and occupations.
Research
Built to scale? Microcredentials use among digital professionals
Using a novel labour market information source through LinkedIn profile data, this report assesses the current uptake of microcredentials in two digitally-intensive occupations: data scientists and software professionals.
Blog
Proving the case: Career development as a lever for poverty reduction
More than two decades ago, policymakers from 14 countries at the inaugural International Symposium for Career and Public Policy challenged the career development community to...
Research
Mind the gap: Compensation disparity between Canadian and American technology workers
The significant compensation disparity between Canadian and American tech workers calls for renewed efforts to scale Canadian tech companies.
Blog
10 recommendations to reduce long-term labour market scarring on youth
“Labour market scarring is not a new phenomenon, but since COVID-19, sociodemographic factors, labour market shifts, accelerating climate impacts, and cost of living have all...
Blog
New Brunswick Mi’kmaq community comes together to improve early childhood education
Through participatory engagement, parents, Elders, and community leaders joined forces to overcome quality of work concerns and define a new vision for childcare in their community.
In the Media
Micro-Credentials Offer Faster, Easier Way To Upskill
With rapid changes in the energy industry, companies and workers must constantly learn and adapt. The sector requires workers to continually develop and expand their skills, but many feel they don’t have the time or capacity