Employers look to refugees to ease labour shortage issues
In the midst of a growing labour shortage, more companies are looking to refugees to flesh out talent pools, according to experts. In partnership with Deloitte, the Tent Partnership for...
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4 reports that caught our eye the week of March 17, 2019
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...
Canada has a skills shortage – but which skills, and where? Lack of data leaves the experts unsure
For years, governments have promised immigration and economic measures to give communities the workers they need – but when it comes to the statistics behind those needs, Canada still has...
3 ways to help immigrant women succeed in the labour market
Research by the Conference Board of Canada shows that, due to an aging population and low birth rate, Canada needs to tap into as many talent pools as possible to...
Canada added 56,000 jobs last month, blowing past expectations
Canada's economy added 56,000 jobs in February, and most were full time, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Economists had been expecting a flat showing for the month, with a little over...
As ‘jobs for life’ disappear, focus turns to reskilling
As news of the impending shuttering of General Motors’ Oshawa assembly plant continues to reverberate in Ontario, for many workers, the focus has turned towards reskilling. The movement has caught the...
People with disabilities face a massive employment gap
Slightly more people with disabilities entered the workforce in 2017 compared to the year before. But that positive stat belies some more negative numbers: The rate of new job growth...
Labour shortages ease for first time since 2016 but 409,000 jobs remained unfilled in Q4 2018
The national job vacancy rate eased slightly to 3.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018, down 0.1 per cent since the previous quarter, according to the Canadian Federation...
If there’s a labour shortage, how come some people are still out of work?
To read the headlines you'd think nearly every Canadian who wants a job would have one by now. The country's unemployment rate hit a 43-year low of 5.6 per cent...
Hipster job searches are on the rise
“Hipster jobs” is not yet an official occupational category at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that doesn’t mean the grouping does not exist. Hipsters, in their current Brooklyn-born, globally adopted iteration,...