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Tenure is shorter, education is ongoing and job structures are shifting. Are you ready?...

Gen Alpha will be the most educated generation but could redefine what an education looks like, with more priority on skills over degrees....

The major world economies of today are innovation-driven knowledge centres. To move innovation forward, an economy cannot operate from a limited pool of local knowledge and skills. It must be...

The Covid-19 pandemic has hurled life and work as we once knew it into a state of near-paralysing uncertainty. So much has changed about our world so quickly that our...

Statistics Canada says domestic firms that invested in robots since the late 1990s have also expanded their human workforces, suggesting a less than "apocalyptic" result for workers overall....

World Economic Forum report says advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will lead to a net increase in jobs over the next five years but the coronavirus pandemic will result...

However, if we shift our focus from degrees to skills, we’ll enable a bigger workforce that represents the diversity of our populations, and will help close the all too familiar...

The reality is that to progress in any career, people need to continually learn and adapt to never-ending shifts in job requirements and newly emerging skills....

Investing in young people to help tackle skills shortages could provide a future-proofed way to recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19, including disruptions to education and job opportunities....

Organizations need to invest in effective long-term remote-working foundations, revamp their upskilling and retraining approaches, and adopt an agile approach to strategic workforce planning....