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#ICYMI: With the year almost coming to a close, don’t forget to complete our survey! Share your thoughts to help us assess our impact and build a clearer picture of how the sector can grow to meet future demands in 2025.  Get your responses in before it’s too late! https://lnkd.in/gDPrvgex -- Alors que l'année touche à sa fin, n'oubliez pas de répondre au sondage « Votre opinion 2024 » ! Faites-nous part de vos réflexions pour nous aider à évaluer notre impact et à dresser un tableau plus clair de la manière dont le secteur peut évoluer et se développer pour répondre aux demandes futures en 2025 Envoyez vos réponses avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. https://lnkd.in/gcYByRcQ College of the North Atlantic, Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) | Conseil de l'information sur le marché du travail (CIMT), eCampusOntario, NPower Canada, Futurpreneur, CERIC, Women in Resource Development Corporation (WRDC), The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University, Smart Prosperity Institute, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Research – Toronto Metropolitan University

Our Executive Director, Noel Baldwin, spoke with Canada's National Observer about the growing green jobs industry. He emphasized that while the transition to renewable energy is crucial, the country’s workforce is not yet prepared for the massive demand in clean energy jobs. Noel highlighted that more data and action is needed to “map out the nearer-future picture of the green jobs industry”. Read the full article now: https://lnkd.in/d5Abw-zk -- Notre directeur général, Noel Baldwin, s’est entretenu avec le Canada's National Observer sur la croissance du secteur des emplois verts. Il a souligné que si la transition vers les énergies renouvelables est essentielle, la main-d’œuvre du pays n’est pas encore préparée à la demande massive d’emplois dans le domaine des énergies propres. Noel a souligné qu’il fallait davantage de données et d’actions pour « dresser le tableau de l’avenir proche du secteur des emplois verts ». Lisez l’article complet maintenant : https://lnkd.in/d5Abw-zk

“We’re not going back… to the office!” writes The Environics Institute for Survey Research’s Andrew Parkin in a new blog post, pulling insights from our report with Diversity Institute exploring workers’ preferences when it comes to workplace flexibility. Read the full report to learn how working from home contributes to equity and inclusion, productivity, and perceptions of teamwork and job satisfaction: https://lnkd.in/gZydBg5s -- « Nous ne retournerons pas... au bureau ! » a écrit Andrew Parkin de The Environics Institute for Survey Research dans un nouveau blogue, tirant des enseignements de notre rapport avec Diversity Institute explorant les préférences de la main-d’œuvre en matière de flexibilité au travail. Lisez le rapport complet pour découvrir comment le travail à domicile contribue à l’équité et à l’inclusion, à la productivité et à la perception du travail d’équipe et de la satisfaction au travail : https://lnkd.in/gZydBg5s 

2025 is right around the corner — here are the skills insights you'll need to stay ahead. 👇 -- 2025 approche à grands pas - voici les perspectives à connaître sur le développement des compétences 👇 The Conference Board of Canada, Smart Prosperity Institute, CAGBC | Canada Green Building Council, NPower Canada, ELITE Program for Black Youth, Diversity Institute, Magnet, Blueprint , Immigrant Employment Council of BC, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University, Research – Toronto Metropolitan University, The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University, The Environics Institute for Survey Research, Purpose Co, Monumental, ASPECT BC - Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training, Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) | Conseil de l'information sur le marché du travail (CIMT), Association for New Canadians

📣 Last call to share your thoughts on how the #skills ecosystem can continue serving workers and employers in Canada. Involved in skills and workforce development? Assist Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures today by providing feedback and input in their 2024 market research survey! Survey closes tomorrow, December 17: 📝 https://lnkd.in/gDPrvgex

New from The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University, check out our collaboration with Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures the first Canada-wide company-level look at how AI is impacting productivity. And thanks to The Logic for covering this work. Stay tuned for our next report in collaboration with the Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures in January, on how and which workers are best positioned to take advantage of the AI opportunity https://lnkd.in/ergBxhnw

🚀 New report launch! For many Black and racialized youth in Canada, the path to their dream careers is filled with roadblocks. Unequal access to #technology, limited #mentorship opportunities and insufficient career guidance are just a few challenges. First-generation immigrant families may also be unfamiliar with Canada’s educational and career systems, leaving their children without the support they need to navigate post-secondary education. To address these barriers, we collaborated with the Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures and the Peel District School Board to pilot the Future Skills & Careers (FSC) platform. This tool provides mentorship programs, digital #skills training and career exploration resources to support under-served youth. Here’s what we learned: ▶ 70% of youth said the platform helped them understand career paths. ▶ 83.8% agreed the purpose of the platform was clear. ▶ Feedback highlighted opportunities to make the platform more interactive to engage users in self-assessment. Are you interested in education and workforce development? Explore insights in the full report: https://bit.ly/4fjs2jA #Diversity #Inclusion #training #youth #EDI

Canada’s productivity growth – a key driver of economic prosperity – has stalled. Many private-sector and policy leaders are betting big on AI as the silver bullet for our productivity crisis, but will it pay off? Our latest report, Waiting for Takeoff, Viet Vu, Vivian L., Angus Lockhart, Graham 📊 Dobbs, and Christelle Tessono investigate these assumptions and offer the first evidence of the effects of AI adoption on productivity and employment. The findings might surprise you: in the early 2020 to late 2021 study period, we found there is no conclusive evidence to substantiate the claim that AI makes Canadian companies more productive. While this data pre-dates the Generative AI era, the findings call for caution in asserting that AI adoption at the firm level results in short-term productivity gains. This report is part of the portfolio of work by the Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures Centre, which is funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Program.

#ICYMI: With the year almost coming to a close, don’t forget to complete our survey! Share your thoughts to help us assess our impact and build a clearer picture of how the sector can grow to meet future demands in 2025.  Get your responses in before it’s too late! https://lnkd.in/gDPrvgex -- Alors que l'année touche à sa fin, n'oubliez pas de répondre au sondage « Votre opinion 2024 » ! Faites-nous part de vos réflexions pour nous aider à évaluer notre impact et à dresser un tableau plus clair de la manière dont le secteur peut évoluer et se développer pour répondre aux demandes futures en 2025 Envoyez vos réponses avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. https://lnkd.in/gcYByRcQ College of the North Atlantic, Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) | Conseil de l'information sur le marché du travail (CIMT), eCampusOntario, NPower Canada, Futurpreneur, CERIC, Women in Resource Development Corporation (WRDC), The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University, Smart Prosperity Institute, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Research – Toronto Metropolitan University

I’m really excited about the new data on adult skills from the OECD - OCDE PIAAC study released earlier today! A 🧵 thread of some early observations… PIAAC measures three main skill sets: literacy, numeracy and problem solving of adults 16-65. This is the second cycle and Canada (all 10 provinces) participated alongside 30 other OECD countries.  1. Canadians are comparatively strong performers: above the OECD average in all three domains. All 10 provinces are above average in literacy, 8 out of 10 above OECD average in numeracy and 9 out of 10 above in problem solving. 2. In literacy, nearly all countries performed less well than 10 years ago, but Canada’s decline was smaller than most. Some work to do to figure out why the slip in so many countries. The OECD Education podcast offers some early thoughts. 3. In numeracy, many countries performed better than 10 years ago and Canada’s improvement was among the stronger ones. Good news given the strong correlations between numeracy and labour market outcomes. 4. There is also a smaller gap in Canada between our highest and lowest performers, and while we haven’t seen an increase in the proportion of high performers, the same is true among low performers, which other countries did see. 5. There is an important story about immigration and skills. Canada had the sixth highest change in the share of our population from immigration (on par with a few others). The performance in literacy of our immigrant-born population has not changed much since the last cycle of PIAAC in 2012, so that increase in share didn’t diminish literacy skills. While the gap in literacy proficiency between non-immigrant and immigrant populations widened significantly in some countries over the past ten years, it got slightly smaller in Canada. Canada is one of a handful of countries that saw the numeracy proficiency of its immigrant population improve. In fact, numeracy proficiency increased more strongly among migrants than among native-born adults in Canada. 6. There are areas of concern too, however, particularly around skills mismatch/overqualification where the OECD’s calculations suggest Canadians are taking about a 12% wage hit (on par with OECD average) due to overqualification. OECD estimates that 28% of Canadians are overqualified and 36% are overskilled for their jobs (25-65 year olds) compared to 23% and 26% across the OECD. This data just came out today and there is more work to do to understand it better. There are important ageing factors that merit more consideration and study required to understand the connections between the top line figures and skills used at work. Future Skills Centre - Centre des Compétences futures will be doing our own digging and collaborating with others to understand better what it all means, but a first takeaway is that Canadians are skilled and we can and should keep trying to do better.