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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.
Growth in Canadian Salary Transparency Driven by Two Provinces (Indeed Hiring Lab)
Progress on salary transparency in Canadian job postings is increasingly legislation-driven, with British Columbia and Ontario accounting for most of the movement. In Ontario, the share of postings including explicit pay information climbed from 49% just before its new law took effect to 71% by June 2026, while outside those two provinces only 41% of postings disclosed pay. The analysis suggests spillover effects to jurisdictions without transparency requirements have been limited.
The Likelihood and Timing of Mothers’ Return to Work and Child Care Arrangements After Parental Leave, Revisited (Statistics Canada)
Drawing on Employment Insurance Coverage Survey data from 2020 to 2023, this study examines whether and when mothers return to work following parental leave, and the child care arrangements they use. Mothers in higher-quality jobs—permanent, unionized and better paid—were more likely to return, while those choosing extended EI benefits returned later and more often relied on the child’s other parent for care. The findings point to the role of job quality and flexible benefit design in shaping maternal employment.
Out of Sync: Youth and Small Business Labour Needs in Canada (CFIB)
Canada’s labour market is sending mixed signals: youth unemployment is high, yet many small businesses still struggle to hire. This analysis attributes the gap to geographic, preference-based and structural mismatches, noting that 46% of rural and small-town businesses reported labour shortages in June compared with 38% of urban businesses, and that very few youth are willing to relocate for physically demanding, minimum-wage or irregular-hour work.
Designing a Precision Career-Guidance Model Based on Student Psychological Profiling in Higher Education (Frontiers in Psychology)
This study proposes a career guidance framework that combines psychologically informed student profiling—personality, motivation, cognitive tendency and interests—with machine learning to generate personalized recommendations that adapt as a learner’s circumstances change. Tested against public career trajectory benchmarks, the model outperformed competing approaches on prediction accuracy. The authors emphasize that outputs should support, not replace, professional counselling judgment.
2026 TD AI Insights Report (TD)
Based on an Ipsos survey of 2,501 Canadian adults, this report maps where Canadians accept AI in their financial lives and where they still want a human. Comfort is highest for routine tasks—55% for spending tracking and 53% for credit score calculation—but 71% place more confidence in human intelligence than AI for financial matters, and only 32% would trust AI over their parents for advice. Respondents identified data protection, accountability for errors and meaningful human oversight as the conditions for extending more trust.
