skills
Manufacturing jobs and the future
They have grown more rapidly in Canada and the US than the workforce as a whole.
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Skills Ontario launches #FillTheToolbox engagement campaign
Initiative is looking for support from 240 donors for programs that will encourage youth to engage in skilled trades.
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Skills for the future: Digital competence will be essential
Canada continues to lag in development efforts.
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Skills shortage hampers manufacturers’ competitiveness: CME
Survey shows 85% of companies from across Canada are having trouble filling job vacancies.
New approaches needed for workforce development
The use of new digital technlogies is reshaping the way education and training is being delivered.
Quebec accepted 40% fewer skilled workers in first half of 2019
Province suffers from labour shortages in all regions, business groups wants 60,000 immigrants a year.
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Future Skills Centre invests $7.65M to transition displaced workers
Innovation projects will test and evaluate approaches to support thousands of workers facing career transitions.
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LNG Canada, JGC Fluor to attract more women to skilled trades
Four-week workforce development program aims to recruit, train, support and employ them in construction trades.
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Smart recruiting for the future
Sponsored Content provided by PLANT partners: The world is changing – is your recruitment strategy keeping up? These days most businesses are technology businesses in some way or another and the people who ‘make’ the technology, the software developers, are…
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Connecting with young workers
Sponsored Content provided by PLANT partners: Millennials and Generation Z are changing the Canadian manufacturing labour force A common challenge for many Canadian manufacturers is finding and retaining skilled labour. Many businesses are facing the retirement of older employees, and…
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Durham College, OPG, IBB collaborate on boilermaker program
Students will experience three weeks of essential industry training and paid work placements.
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Keeping Canada’s power on will require 20,000 new workers by 2022
Demand for new workers is complicated by the fact many of the jobs require substantial training.
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Canada’s employers boost salaries to attract new talent
But the Hays annual salary survey shows pay for existing staff lags.
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Filling the skills gap: Innovative Automation Invests in its employees
Want to find and keep skilled workers? Here’s a thought: develop them.
Government needs to do more to resolve skills shortage: cybersecurity experts
Opportunity for Canada to export expertise and technology, but there’s also a danger of the country losing its talented people.
