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Blog
Assessing the impact of microcredentials? We need better data
This is a translation. Please click here for the original blog post in French. The use of microcredentials is growing in Canada and abroad. They...
August 18, 2022
29 minutes
Podcast
Season 2 | Episode 6
Skills for the Digital Economy
Technological change is affecting every sector, and these changes shift the roles and the skills in demand. Our guests share their perspectives on what needs...
Featuring: Linda Nazareth, Namir Anani, Rushmi Hasham, Nathalie Sanon
engagement
Focus on youth and skills
Canada’s young people are facing both challenges and opportunities as they strive to enter the workforce, gain skills or seek education. On a positive note,...
Blog
Shortage of skilled tradespeople and apprentices requires range of supports
Canada needs skilled tradespeople. According to the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA), over the five-year period from 2022 to 2026, an estimated 122,380 new journeypersons will...
Research
Exploring the multiple dimensions of quality of work
Job quality has always been an important, yet often overlooked, element of the labour market. It encompasses factors that affect worker well-being and business productivity.
Research
COVID-19 and logistics: Changes and challenges in demand, business practices, and workforce management
This study aims to understand how the pandemic has altered the demand for supply chain and logistics services in Canada and how businesses within the industry have adapted to pandemic-related health and safety protocols.
Research
Beyond blue and white collar: a skills-based approach to Canadian job groupings
Canadian employers are increasingly thinking about work from a skills perspective. This issue briefing takes a new approach to defining job groupings.
Research
From Low-Mobility to Rapid-Growth Jobs: How Governments and Agencies Can Build the Bridge to Clean Economy Careers
This issue briefing looks at the retraining required to transition workers from occupations susceptible to automation to rapidly growing occupations in the clean economy.
Research
Planning When You Can’t Predict: Strategic Foresight and the Future of Work
This report introduces strategic foresight, a discipline that helps organizations and individuals think about and plan for the future in a context of radical uncertainty involving disruptive political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental changes.