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CareerWise is always on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are several reports that we found interesting this week.
Skills for Productivity, Prosperity and Well-Being in Canada (Future Skills Centre)
While Canada has one of the most highly educated populations in the world, the distribution and use of skills across the adult population is uneven. This is evident in results from the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessments of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) – an international survey of hundreds of thousands of adults, including nearly 40,000 in Canada.
Underserved: Ontario’s Integrated Employment Services system is failing those in greatest need (Maytree)
Research shows that Ontario’s Integrated Employment Services system is not working for social assistance clients and other equity-deserving groups. Poorer outcomes are persistent over time and come despite the presence of a performance-based funding scheme intended to promote more equitable outcomes between client streams.
Labour Force Survey, August 2025 (Statistics Canada)
Employment declined by 66,000 (-0.3%) in August, largely the result of a decline in part-time work, and the unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 7.1%.
Adoption Ready? The AI Exposure of Jobs and Skills in Canada’s Public Sector Workforce (The Dais)
This study assesses jobs on two distinct but related measures: exposure to AI (i.e. the probability the occupation will have to interact with AI systems in their day-to-day work) and complementarity to AI (whether usage of AI is more likely to assist the worker with common occupational tasks).
