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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.
AI and the labour market across developed economies (Goldman Sachs)
Goldman Sachs looked at more than 800 occupations and found AI’s effect on hiring falls hardest on entry-level workers. Across the broader labour market, the effect is modest – a 10% occupational exposure to AI was associated with just a 0.1 percentage point drag on annual headcount growth in Canada, the US and France. However, for entry-level workers specifically, the drag ranged from more than 0.2 percentage points in the US to more than 0.6 in Australia. Industries most exposed to AI have seen job openings grow more slowly since late 2022.
AI roles and early-career pay (LinkedIn)
LinkedIn’s analysis of job posting data puts the median salary for an AI role at $177,000, more than double the $80,000 median for other roles. These jobs are also heavily credentialed: 91% of people in them hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. That sits against a soft entry-level market, with unemployment at 7.2% for workers aged 22 to 27 compared with 4.1% overall.
CNBC and SurveyMonkey Q3 2026 Quarterly AI & Jobs Survey (SurveyMonkey)
This quarterly survey found that three in 10 workers now use AI daily, while 37% never use it at work. How often people use it shapes how secure they feel. Daily users are the only group with a net positive view of their job security. AI is also changing plans: 23% of workers have changed or considered changing their target industry, 32% have rethought which skills to build and one in five is eyeing a move into the trades.
Reports from Canada’s Economic Strategy Tables (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Canada’s Economic Strategy Tables brought together industry CEOs and federal deputy ministers to build growth plans for six sectors, each with a substantial skills and talent chapter. The themes across the six are expanded work-integrated learning, curriculum co-developed by employers and post-secondary institutions, lifelong learning and reskilling, better foreign credential recognition and campaigns to draw underrepresented groups into sectors facing shortages. Each sector report is available on its own:
Testing Innovative AI for Career and Skills Navigation (Future Skills Centre)
This report evaluates PathPilot, an AI career navigation tool tested with newcomers, youth and Indigenous jobseekers. Nearly three-quarters of users (73%) of users agreed it helped them explore career options – and none disagreed. However, the main finding is that AI works best alongside practitioners, not in place of them. The report also cautions that AI-drafted resumes can contain errors and that letting AI write them costs jobseekers the learning that comes from describing their own skills.
Unlocking Canada’s Skills Potential (Signal49 Research)
Signal49 surveyed 1,010 Canadians who completed training in the past three years, half within the post-secondary system and half outside it. More than 80% of those who trained outside already held a post-secondary credential, and 90% had used more than one such provider. Fewer than 15% enrolled to change careers – most were upgrading skills in their current field. Learners under 36 who trained outside the system were more likely to work full time and earn $60,000 or more.
