Surfacing Bias for Better Career Coaching
Unconscious biases exist in our coaching practices. While biases are normal, we should not accept them as such. As career practitioners, our unconscious biases might influence us in several ways....
Why is there so little talk of attracting men to female-dominated jobs?
There are many initiatives aimed at encouraging women to enter male-dominated fields such as technology, engineering and finance, yet we hear very little about balancing professions that skew heavily female. According to Statistics Canada,...
A new immigration stream is coming for Ontario tech workers, but is it necessary?
The 2019 budget includes a planned change to the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program that will create a "dedicated stream to help Ontario's technology sector attract highly skilled employees" who would...
‘Unretirement’ growing trend as cost of living climbs
Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveals that 177,500 Australians aged 45 years and over who had previously retired returned to work or were planning to in 2016-17, the latest stats...
3 Harsh Realities of Being an Over 40 Job Seeker
If you're over forty and in the hunt for a new job, you may be wondering why it feels so much harder than it used to. Especially, when the news...
Why diversity is crucial to success in STEM
Building a diverse team starts with providing an inclusive environment. Inclusion allows us to bring together people with different strengths and different weaknesses; people who complement each other and make...
Flexible work — for everyone — is key to keeping women in the workforce, experts say
The difficulties of managing family and work life — child-care shortages, schools that let out hours before the end of the work day — continue to push disproportionate numbers of...
One Way to Reduce Gender Bias in Performance Reviews
Quantitative performance ratings are far from objective; while they may make the task of comparing workers easier for managers, they are riddled with gender bias. Research consistently shows that people...
Generation Z knows gender inequality too
Born between the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, most female Gen Z professionals have grown up in a society that has – theoretically, at least – championed their power and potential. Unfortunately,...
Difficulty finding child care is affecting some Canadians’ ability to work, StatsCan reports
New data from Statistics Canada shows nearly one in 10 parents of children under six have had to change their work schedule due to a lack of available child care....