Research & Trends

By hiring highly skilled workers for bespoke positions, companies are capable of affording top-tier talent, streamlining their workforces, and getting projects done more effectively and efficiently than ever before....

Discussions about the future of work in career development often focus on the outcomes of students and clients – the shifting labour reality, the skills they will need and the...

One prediction that has certainly come true is a continued move to a more flexible workforce. This includes use of contingent or consulting arrangements for certain types of work. At...

Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are six reports that we found interesting this week: Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes and...

By the end of last year, 434,000 private sector jobs were left unfilled, with the highest job vacancy rates in construction, hospitality, professional services and health services....

Co-authored by Selen Demirtas-Zorbaz and Seval Kizildag-Sahin Can we control chance? The work of John Krumboltz, an established career theorist, suggests the answer is yes. Let’s consider the role of...

In 2017, Canada's grain and oilseed farmers employed 38,750 workers, but 2,000 jobs were unfilled, CAHRC said. In nine years the labour shortage could be much worse....

Generally speaking, our data show that at this pace, we won’t achieve decent work for all by 2030. Progress in labour markets around the world has been too slow and uneven to ensure a...

Many employers continue to overemphasize digital fluency and skills such as coding as a reliable way to futureproof our workforce, when in reality, even coding is not immune to automation....

More than three-quarters of the employers reported difficulty hiring workers over the past five years, citing the lack of qualified applicants as the biggest challenge....