Create value for clients with a skills inventory
Career professionals can help clients get to know themselves by supporting them to develop and maintain a skills inventory....
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National Competency Profile for career development professionals released
The profile presents a curation of competencies that details effective performance, knowledge and abilities for career professionals....
Canadian businesses say applicants are lacking these crucial skills
According to a new survey from Harris Poll, Canadian businesses say they can’t find qualified employees to fill vacancies because prospective hires don’t have soft skills such as dependability, flexibility...
Canada’s skills-development system should be evidence-based
Two approaches – sector-based training and a “Career Pathways” model – offer great potential in improving trainees’ employment prospects....
Drive To Hybrid Working Highlights Need For Focus On New Skills
We live in strange times. For many people, in spite of the urgings of many inside and out of government to get on with returning to normal life, this is...
What are the skills of the future?
From critical thinking to creativity, teamwork to sustainability, here are some of the skills jobseekers can expect to be in demand by employers....
Testing our patience: traditional skills assessment earns a failing grade
In a world with blended learning models, and understanding that people learn at different speeds and in different ways, why do we continue to lean on static and monolithic testing?...
Facing skilled worker shortage, U.S. companies try to train their own new labour pools
People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life...
What you need to know about Canada’s new Skills for Success framework
Skills frameworks are not static. They are updated with new research or when the creators of the framework are trying to move in a new direction. Employment and Social Development...
Bye-bye four-year degree. Canadian companies want workers faster
The skills shortage is so acute the private sector is stepping up training programs tailored for the jobs on offer rather than wait for universities...