Bridging the skills awareness gap through reflection
Queen’s University card sort and mapping activities can help students acknowledge and articulate their skills with confidence....
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Why employers should connect to opportunity youth in 2021
Growing numbers of young people are neither employed nor in school. This is an urgent challenge that needs to be addressed....
Want to boost interest in skilled trades? Get parents on board
My dad was a pipefitter. (A fitter-welder if we’re getting technical). While I didn’t know exactly what that meant when I was a kid, he did tell me stories from...
Ed Hidalgo: ‘Every child should know there’s a place in the world for them’
The World of Work model was created by the Cajon Valley Union School District with guidance and support from teachers, business, education consultants and counselling professors and researchers. As Hartung et...
How students want employers to talk to them
Many students are on social media, but do they want to hear from employers there? Tristram Hooley shares insights from research....
Green jobs for graduates: what should you study and how can you reskill?
Worldwide, the Global Commission on the Future of Work expects 24 million new jobs to be created by the green economy over the next 10 years....
The importance of workplace belonging for immigrant youth
Immigrant youth are an important source of talent to Canada and increasingly a vital strategy for redressing Canada’s aging workforce. According to Statistics Canada (2017), young people ages 18–29 account...
Making career development ‘stick’ in K-12
The career development gap in schools can only be bridged by prioritizing and scaling programming....
How COVID-19 is affecting young workers’ careers
Canada’s labour market is slowly digging out from the effects of the pandemic, with two-thirds of 3 million jobs lost now recovered. But one category of workers is still lagging...
How businesses can recruit and develop more young people of colour
More must be done to reach students earlier in their academic careers to help them tap into job exploration, skills building and professional development....