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Michel Cournoyer
Cashiers, The Future of Work and Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods
Amazon’s $13.4 billion purchase of Whole Foods, announced Friday, could speed that vision along. Amazon has already made shopping for almost everything involve spending less time waiting, doing work or interacting with people, and now it could do the same for groceries. It’s already trying with a store in Seattle, Amazon Go, that has no … Continue reading
Job Vacancy in EU, QI 2017 – 1.9%, up from 1.7%
The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) was 1.9% in the first quarter of 2017, up from 1.7% recorded in both the previous quarter and the first quarter of 2016, according to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the EU28, the job vacancy rate was also 1.9% … Continue reading
Skills Forecasting – One way to identify future imbalances between labour supply and demand
In a context of dynamic and complex labour markets, matching the right workers and skills with the right jobs becomes increasingly dif cult. Skills forecasting is one way to identify future imbalances between labour supply and demand. Sometimes called ‘labour market forecasting’ or ‘employment forecasts’, this methodology aims to make predictions about future imbalances in … Continue reading
Skills Gap – Competency is more than the mastery of a discrete academic standard
Competency is more than the mastery of a discrete academic standard. True competence is deeper and broader. It includes academics as well as a wide range of other cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills not typically included in academic subjects or college and career readiness learning standards. Competency also requires the combination of knowledge and skills across multiple domains and implies … Continue reading
Many activities that workers carry out today have the potential to be automated
Technological change has reshaped the workplace continually over the past two centuries since the Industrial Revolution, but the speed with which automation technologies are developing today, and the scale at which they could disrupt the world of work, are largely without precedent. MGI research on the automation potential of the global economy, focusing on 46 … Continue reading
Canada – Il faut perturber le statu quo du système d’éducation croit Deloitte
Avec une main-d’œuvre qui gagne rapidement en âge et l’évolution de la technologie qui fait en sorte que les compétences sont dépassées de plus en plus rapidement, le fait d’investir davantage dans des systèmes d’éducation conventionnels et des méthodes d’enseignement dépassées ne préparera pas les Canadiens pour les emplois de demain. Les gouvernements, le milieu … Continue reading
Digital Revolution – More than 90% of employers expect their organization to be impacted Manpower Group finds
Plenty has been written predicting the future: more jobs, different jobs, less jobs, even no jobs. But few are telling people that they will need new skills and they will need them more often to stay employable for jobs we may not even have heard of yet. WE ASKED 18,000 EMPLOYERS IN 43 COUNTRIES ABOUT: … Continue reading
PhDs’ Early Career in France – Eight career trajectories
For those who obtained their PhDs in 2010, research remains the main opening. If they embark on careers in public-sector research, their trajectories during the first five years of their working lives are synonymous with periods of temporary employment of varying lengths. These trajectories contrast sharply with those of PhDs who seek employment in the … Continue reading
Canada – The 10 occupations with the highest average full-time hourly wage in Canada
The average hourly wage paid to full-time payroll employees in 2016 was $27.70, excluding overtime pay, tips, and incentive and performance pay. Wages varied notably across occupations and geographic regions. The data are drawn from the new wage component of the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS), which provides wage information by both detailed occupation and economic … Continue reading
Employment in EU, 2017-Q1 : Up by 0.4%
Employment up by 0.4% in both the euro area and in the EU28, +1.5% and +1.4% respectively compared with the first quarter of 2016. The number of persons employed increased by 0.4% in both the euro area (EA19) and in the EU28 in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the previous quarter, according to … Continue reading
Participation rate of 55 and over In Canada – Increased from 24% to 38% from 1996 to 2016
Since 2007—prior to the economic downturn of 2008/2009—the overall labour force participation of Canadians declined by about two percentage points. The first part of the study investigates the extent to which aging affected changes in labour market participation rates since 2007, based on data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). In the second part, the … Continue reading
Disengagement from School in UK – A map
This paper builds on previous research to set out a model which can be used to measure disengagement nationally. It uses risk factors of disengagement, some imperfect direct measurements, and outcomes which are known to be in uenced by disengagement to locate where high levels of disengagement can be found. Disengagement describes attitudes and practices … Continue reading
Québec, Mai 2017 – Le taux de chômage à un creux inégalé de 6,0 %
Au Québec, l’emploi a légèrement progressé (+15 000) en mai, alors qu’une hausse notable du travail à temps plein a été partiellement contrebalancée par une légère baisse du travail à temps partiel. En raison de la baisse du nombre de personnes à la recherche d’emploi, le taux de chômage a baissé de 0,6 point de pourcentage pour atteindre … Continue reading
Job report in Canada, May 2017 – Employment rose by 55,000, unemployment rate at 6.6%
Employment rose by 55,000 in May, spurred by an increase in full-time work (+77,000). At the same time, the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage points to 6.6%, the result of more people participating in the labour market. The employment increase in May builds on gains since July 2016, when the current upward trend began. Compared with 12 months earlier, there were 317,000 (+1.8%) more … Continue reading
Skills can help countries integrate into global markets and specialise in the most technologically advanced industries OECD says
The world has entered a new phase of globalisation over the past two decades that presents countries and workers with new challenges and opportunities. Helped by the rise of information technology, production has become globalised and fragmented along so‑called global value chains: workers across different countries now contribute to the design, production, marketing and sales … Continue reading
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