Sectors
Labour market trends such as technology, shifting demographics and climate change are leading to rapid change in key sectors of our economy. Workers and employers will require support from the skills ecosystem to successfully manage these transitions.
Research
Rising Skills: Digital Skills Needs for Smart and Connected Vehicles
As the automotive industry shifts toward smart and connected vehicles, tradespeople who service cars, trucks, heavy duty equipment, and other vehicles will need stronger digital competencies. This briefing looks at how stakeholders in the automotive sector can reduce barriers to digital upskilling for both apprentices and journeypersons.
Research
Rising Skills: A Toolbox Talk on Social and Emotional Skills in the Construction Trades
This report looks at the social and emotional skills that construction tradespeople will need to participate in an industry that is becoming increasingly multi-generational and diverse.
Research
Bridging Generational Divides: Advancing Digital Skills in Canada’s Apprenticeships and Skilled Trades Ecosystem
A digital revolution is coming to the skilled trades. Tradespeople will need a range of new digital skills to keep pace with the future of work. In this report, we look at how Canadian apprenticeship training can adapt to the future of work.
September 14, 2020
35 minutes
Podcast
Season 1 | Episode 3
Skilled Trades—Transitioning to a Digital, Green, and Human Future
Apprenticeships get a bad rap. All too often, we perpetuate negative images of the trades: dirty, low pay, and boring. These stereotypes couldn’t be further...
Featuring: Heather McIntosh, Andrew Bieler, Jeff Ranson , Jim Szautner
Project
The Indigenous Employment Hub
The Indigenous Employment Hub can help meet labour needs for future (infrastructure) projects in B.C. and become a model for creating meaningful employment opportunities for Indigenous people.
Project
Material Handling 4.0: Building pathways to employment for disadvantaged groups
Help new and current material handlers in Hamilton to transition to new job opportunities within the supply chain sector.
Project
AspireAtlantic
Creating a program to bridge the gap between employer demand and workforce attachment in Nova Scotia and PEI.
Project
Facing the challenge of digital transformation in the insurance sector: women at work
Action research project on the future of female workers facing the automation of tasks in their job duties in the insurance sector.
Project
Best Practice Models for Industry Engagement
First Canadian test of online VALID-8 tool allowing trades apprentices to be objectively assessed by a certified journeyperson and also demonstrate what they are capable of to prospective employers.