Across Canada
Project
Future City Builders
Future City Builders was a four-month program that supported youth to work collaboratively to develop real-world solutions for healthier and more equitable cities.
Research
Levelling the playing field for Black Canadians
In this research, we look at how Black Canadian professionals’ social and emotional skills are valued in the workplace and how leaders can cultivate a workplace where everyone feels empowered and included.
How do Black Canadians see their racial identity impacting the recognition and evaluation of their social and emotional skills (SES) at work? What are the risks of an employees’ skills not being recognized? What are the benefits of realizing the diverse skill sets within an organization?
Read the impact paper to get the full analysis.
Project
Built to Scale: Assessing Microcredentials for Digital Sector Professionals
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.
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.