Future Skills Centre • Centre des Compétences futures

Norther College lights campus from outside.

Project

CLIMB: Continuous Learning for Individuals’ Mid-career and Beyond

April 2020
Northern Lights College

Mid-career workers are most vulnerable to disruption of the labour market but there is little widespread information, resources, or training to support a mid-career change.

Shelley Uvanile-Hesch with her truck in the background

engagement

Using VR, AI to help drivers keep pace with the fast-changing trucking industry

February 19, 2020

For Shelley Uvanile-Hesch, pursuing the life of a long-distance truck driver was as natural as it was for her father before her. Like him, she was drawn to the open roads, the elevated view of the natural world, the chance to see the four corners of North America, and the opportunity to learn from people she’d meet along the way.

Tech and Automation

engagement

Helping displaced workers reskill in advanced manufacturing

February 19, 2020

Sanjiv Uthayakumar had worked in the printing industry maintaining the presses that produced newspapers and flyers in Ontario for several years, when the long simmering downturn in media and declining advertising dollars started to threaten his job security.

Pathways to Jobs

Michelle Clermont poses for a photo at Parkwood Hospital in London, Ontario

engagement

Improving front-line care for growing number of Canadians living with dementia

February 19, 2020

After watching her grandmother suffer through dementia, Michelle Clermont resolved to leave her corporate job in software support and transition to the healthcare sector to work as a Personal Support Worker and ensure vulnerable people would feel protected by someone they could trust.

Inclusive Economy

engagement

Training displaced oil and gas workers to flourish in Alberta’s tech boom

February 19, 2020

Shona Clarke had spent more than 20 years working as a senior geologist in Calgary’s oil and gas industry when she lost her job as the global energy company she worked for downsized and restructured.

SME Adaptability

Project

Transition to a New Tomorrow

August 2019
NorQuest College

Unique professional development program to support mid-career oil and gas workers

Pathways to Jobs

Three students working in front of laptops in a library setting.

Project

Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities

August 2019
UOIT, York University, Nipissing University, Durham College, National Educational Association of Disabled Students, Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities, Quebec Association for Equity and Inclusion in Postsecondary Education

Assessing tools and resources for mid-career workers with disabilities

Inclusive Economy

Project

Building the Skills of the Trucking Industry

August 2019
Trucking Human Resource Sector Council Atlantic, PEI Trucking Sector Council, Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada, Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, Immigrant Settlement Agency of NS, Native Council of Nova Scotia, St. Francis Xavier University’s Centre for Employment Innovation

The project will leverage virtual reality technology to deliver training in a way that complements varied learning styles. The virtual reality simulator is the first of its kind specifically designed for the trucking industry with AI technology and the ability to track the user’s eyes and enhance their driving skills in the unlimited replays.