CareerWise is always on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are three reports that we found interesting this week.
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Child care workers in Canada (Statistics Canada)
Child-care workers experienced a 21% drop in employment from February 2020 to February 2021. This study presents an overview of the personal and job characteristics of child-care workers in Canada and how these characteristics may have changed over time.
Thinking about the future: Career readiness insights from national longitudinal surveys and from practice (OECD)
This paper explores how teenage thinking about jobs and careers relates to adulthood labour market outcomes. The findings provide further evidence that teenage career ambition, certainty, alignment, instrumental motivation and broad occupational expectations relate to positive employment outcomes, including in periods of economic turbulence.
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021 (International Labour Organization)
This report examines global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity, as well as dimensions of job quality such as employment status, informal employment and working poverty. It also provides extensive analysis of the pandemic’s varied impact on enterprises and workers.
