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Business, Labour & Community: Planning for Prosperity!
Employers: Here's how you can recruit, retain and advance women in the skilled trades workforce
Advancing Women in Skilled Trades is a website that provides tools and templates to help employers recruit, retain, and advance women in their workplaces.
Building Opportunities: Advancing Women in Non-Traditional Occupations is a project led by Workforce Planning Hamilton and the YWCA Hamilton, and is funded by Status of Women Canada.
For more information contact Maisie Raymond-Brown at 905-522-9922 x 151 or at [email protected]
Canadian workforce set for immense shift in the next decade
Canadian employers are challenging the established norms of
the country's workforce and are already hiring a broad variety of non-traditional workers (i.e. contract, consultant, remote or freelance), a trend that is likely to accelerate over the next decade fundamentally changing the nature of employment in Canada, according to a new study.
Randstad Canada released the Workforce 2025 report on April 18th. The study involved nearly 1,300 employees and more than 500 HR and c-suite executives across
Canada, revealing that non-traditional workers currently make up 20% to 30% of the workforce. And this statistic is expected to increase in the next decade.
Overcoming the "Lack of Canadian Experience" Hurdle
Here are eight suggestions for career professionals on how to tackle obstacles facing your newcomer and/or internationally trained clients with their efforts to build their careers in Canada.