Future Skills
Future skills – basic literacy, numeracy and socio-emotional skills – are important across all economic sectors and occupations. Figuring out who and how to address skills gaps is key to building an inclusive workforce with upward mobility.
Event
Social and emotional skills in the workplace
Social and emotional skills (SES)—also called soft, human, or people skills—are increasingly important for today’s job market. What SES do employers value? How do they assess these skills? What hurdles do they face in recruiting socially and emotionally skilled talent?
Research
The heart of the matter: Understanding hiring demand for social and emotional skills
This briefing looks at the hiring demand for social and emotional skills across the country for different industries and occupation levels.
Research
Social and emotional skills in the workplace: Insights from Canadian employers
This briefing presents findings on recruiting for social and emotional skills based on interviews with human resources professionals as well as analysis of Canadian knowledge-based job postings data.
Research
Employers’ insights on social and emotional skills
This executive summary introduces insights into recruiting for social and emotional skills based on interviews with human resources professionals as well as analysis of Canadian knowledge-based job postings data.
July 18, 2024
32 minutes
Podcast
Season 4 | Episode 2
Educating for Sustainability—Green Skills in Canada
The urgency of the climate crisis is undeniable. The transition to a clean economy demands significant changes in skills, occupations, and attitudes. In this episode,...
Featuring: Heather McIntosh, Kevin Nilsen, Charles Hopkins, Tanzeela Faisal
In the Media
CASTL launches national biomanufacturing skills and training study in partnership with Future Skills Centre
CASTL has launched a national biomanufacturing skills and training study to gather critical labour market information and future training priorities specific to Canadian biomanufacturing.
In the Media
BCIT receives $230k from Future Skills Centre to enhance Virtualized Experiential Learning Platform
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is pleased to announce that researcher Dr. Moein Manbachi of the Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART) has been awarded $230,000 in funding from Future Skills Centre. This funding will support the expansion of the Virtualized Experiential Learning Platform (VELP), developed to meet the growing demand for skilled professionals in the green energy sector.
Project
From Data to Decision: AI Training and Professional Certification
This project was a short, online certified program in artificial intelligence (AI) for professionals and leaders offered by IVADO in collaboration with the University of Montreal.
Project
ABC Skills Hub
Nearly half of Canadian adults have inadequate literacy skills, meaning they have poor reading, writing and numeracy skills that limit their ability to participate in the economy and daily life. ABC Life Literacy, an expert in adult learning, has been successfully offering adult literacy courses in person, and sought to migrate this content online to be more widely accessible to individual learners and other literacy organizations across the country.