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Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. It can be hard to keep up with what's already out there, let alone imagine what our world could look like in 20...

Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are four that we found interesting this week: World Development Report 2019: The Changing...

Despite the anxiety many Canadians feel about the changing nature of work, Canada lacks a holistic, detailed, and actionable forecast of in-demand skills. This is why Brookfield Institute is partnering...

While the media has focused on how artificial intelligence will eliminate more jobs than it creates, it was refreshing to speak to a senior executive of a company with 225,000...

It’s not enough to think or talk about “retraining” and “reskilling.” Instead, employers, employees, educational institutions, and public-sector leaders need to start talking about “lifelong employability”: helping people continually and...

Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are three that we found interesting this week: Humans Wanted: Robots Need You (ManpowerGroup)...

Reskilling and upskilling for the future will require collaboration between private, public and non-profit organizations. We need new and creative ways to grow existing retraining programs and build new ones...

We are in the middle of a fourth industrial revolution. Retraining will be an essential feature of the new employment landscape, in which many jobs will be automated....

It’s so much easier to educate students for our past, than for their future. Schools are inherently conservative social systems, and as parents, we become anxious when our children learn...