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From Knives to Knobs: Sustainability and Smart Skills in Meat Value Chains
Smart manufacturing presents meat processors with an opportunity to bolster their sustainability performance, while enhancing quality and productivity. But for meat processors to harness smart manufacturing, their workers need the right skills.
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Smart Manufacturing in the Meat Processing Industry
Smart manufacturing in the meat processing industry increases the demand for advanced technical and digital skills, such as robotic operation, control, and maintenance, along with higher levels of education and training including college diplomas and other formal certifications.
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Increasing Indigenous Physicians in Healthcare
There are longstanding health inequities for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Canada, but Indigenous physicians are well positioned to rebuild health services and trust among Indigenous communities.
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Beyond Forecasting Skills Supply
This research looks at a better way of forecasting the skills that are available in a labour market. Economic modelling has traditionally ignored the collection of skills that workers accumulate. But what if our models could remember the skills workers used to use?
Did you forget the skills you used at a previous job, or did you carry them with you into your next? How is supply of skills currently measured? Is there a better way?
We share our exciting new approach for forecasting Canada’s skills supply.
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Optimizing Career Services: Resources for Post-Secondary Career Professionals
Career development professionals (CDPs) play an important role in preparing post-secondary students for the workforce. To do this effectively, they need access to high-quality, easy-to-use resources and labour market information.
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Training for Tomorrow
Transitioning to a low-carbon economy will bring changes to the Canadian workforce.
The Conference Board of Canada, on behalf of the Future Skills Centre, is researching how measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will affect demand for skilled tradespeople in construction and how education and training programs can prepare to meet this demand.
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Learning From One Another: Labour Markets in Yukon
The economy in Yukon is expected to grow by 41 per cent between 2024 and 2045. Employment in the territory is expected to increase by 10 per cent, mainly driven by increases in employment in public administration and defence, and commercial and non-commercial services. Read the primer to get our full analysis.
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Learning From One Another: Labour Markets in Northern Ontario
The economy in Northern Ontario has recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to grow by 20 per cent over the next 20 years. However, the existing workforce is not able to fill the demand for labour in the region, which will continue to grow. This primer provides an overview of Northern Ontario’s labour market conditions. It is part of a multi-year collaborative research project which explores labour markets in Nunavut, Northern Ontario, and Yukon.
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Mentorship in the Workplace: Employee Participation and Perspectives
Workplace mentorship programs can have numerous benefits for both participants and employers. There is evidence that having a career mentor can lead to greater compensation,...