Research & Trends

This project represents a thorough examination of the landscape of accessibility, services, accommodations, technical equipment and supports for students with disabilities at post-secondary institutions across Canada. This research, funded in part...

Older women are heading back to the workplace in larger numbers to bridge the shortfall in their pension as they approach retirement. The proportion of working women aged 65 to 74...

When young people in the U.K. were asked in 2011 about the careers they wanted, the most popular ambitions were for jobs such as doctors, vets, firefighters, teachers and actors....

It’s interesting to observe how many folks who are not career counsellors or practitioners are talking, quite definitively, about careers. Many of them have their own unique definitions of “career,”...

Despite the rise in public awareness of mental health issues, Canadians still hold a bias toward viewing disabilities as being largely physical rather than mental in nature, according to a...

Metal trades in Western Canada will need to keep recruitment pressure on if they want to stave off severe labour shortages, according to labour report surveys. But, even with recruiting...

From Uber to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, so-called gig work has been widely seen as ideal for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the...

As technology continues to evolve at lightning speed, redefining the way we live and work, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to imagine functioning without it. Unfortunately, that reliance on technology to...

Today, progress in a career is rarely linear. The average millennial changes jobs four times in the first decade out of college, more than double the previous generation. And nearly...

There is an urgent need to understand what skills Canadians will need to prosper in the future and how we can better leverage and indeed supercharge our current skills development...