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Michel Cournoyer
Talent Platforms for On-Demand Workforce – Companies need to break work down into rigorously defined components
In this era of chronic skills shortages, rapid automation, and digital transformation, companies are confronting a growing talent problem, one that has the potential to become a strategic bottleneck. How can they find people with the right skills to do the right work at just the right time? The half-life of skills is shrinking fast, … Continue reading
Covid and Higher Education Students in US – 51% of currently enrolled students report that COVID-19 is “very likely” or “likely” to impact their ability to complete their degree
Higher education has faced unprecedented challenges amidst COVID-19. Throughout 2020, many students have transitioned between in-person and remote learning as schools continue to navigate the pandemic. In the fall of 2020, Lumina Foundation and Gallup partnered to survey 2,064 students currently pursuing their associate degree and 3,941 pursuing their bachelor’s degree and assessed: How has … Continue reading
Canada – Where is the economic vision for the future?
Why can’t we leverage our intellectual capital to create global firms that capture new markets like other countries do? Are we positioning ourselves to be successful in the fast-growing fields of artificial intelligence, cleantech or biotech? When it comes to talent and intellectual property, we look more and more like a farm team for American … Continue reading
Big Cities in Canada – Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver continued to see more people moving out
Population growth in Canada’s large urban regions slowed compared with the same period a year earlier (+1.3% compared with +1.7%). However, Canada continues to be more urbanized as the population of census metropolitan areas rose to 27.3 million (accounting for 71.8% of the total population). Urban sprawl continues, with Toronto and Montréal both experiencing record-high … Continue reading
L’appli moncompteformation en France – Un symbole du changement vers un nouveau rapport à la formation
Le Compte Personnel de Formation est un dispositif de financement de formation pour l’individu, largement modernisé par la loi « pour choisir son avenir professionnel », datant de 2018. Il est mobilisable directement par l’ensemble des actifs grâce à une appli et un site internet, sans aucun intermédiaire. C’est un nouveau parcours d’achat, entièrement numérique, qui est en … Continue reading
Transferable Skills in VET – A toolbox
This guide is on transferable skills. The ILO defines these as ‘employable skills which can be used productively in different jobs, occupations and industries’. Entailing on the one hand core life skills such as literacy and numeracy and also e.g. critical and creative thinking. On the other hand, there are the general vocational-technical skills: basic … Continue reading
Immigrants in US – Key charts and facts from 1980 to 2018
Key charts and statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018. Source: Immigrants in America: Key Charts and Facts | Pew Research Center
Immigration in Canada – The two-step selection
In a two-step immigration selection process, temporary foreign workers are first selected by employers for a temporary job, and some qualified temporary foreign workers then become economic immigrants. The details of this selection process vary among countries. For example, in the US, the temporary workers are typically sponsored by the employers in their bid to … Continue reading
Covid and Unemployment in US – Broader measures of labor market underutilization
We know that tens of millions of people are currently out of work in the United States. More than 26 million workers filed for unemployment benefits between mid-March and mid-April alone. The most popular measure of the strength of the labor market is the unemployment rate. Forecasts for how much it will rise in the … Continue reading
Covid – Will it accelerate automation?
Less globalisation, more automation: the economic crisis induced by pandemic is likely to encourage a surge of labour-replacing technology. That will be disruptive, unequal and challenging for workers.Workers in developing countries are already jittery with worries ranging from “rebound” outbreaks and lay-offs to the onset of cabin fever. As if workers don’t have enough on … Continue reading
Upskilling in US – Policies that combine investments in English language and digital literacy are vital
English is essential – especially for essential workers The Covid-19 pandemic has vividly illustrated the centrality of frontline workers to the everyday functioning of American life. Many frontline workers are immigrants and/or English language learners – not unlike the US workforce overall, in which more than one in 10 workers has limited English skills. The … Continue reading
Unemployment Insurance (UI) – Lessons from the American federal‐state system
This article reviews practices in the United States (US) federal‐state unemployment insurance (UI) system regarding applicant eligibility, benefit generosity, benefit financing and emergency measures with the aim of revealing lessons for a possible European unemployment benefit system (EUBS) for European Union (EU) Member States. We overview the US system for UI and examine important areas … Continue reading
Universal Basic Income (UBI) – What is it ? (video)
Related Posts Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A primer POSTED BY MICHEL COURNOYER ⋅ APRIL 27, 2020 ⋅ 1 COMMENT What is UBI? On its face, the definition of a truly universal basic income is pretty straightforward: It’s an amount of cash given to everyone within a geographic area that’s then distributed unconditionally regularly, and on … Continue reading
La Formation avant la Pandémie – Plus de budget et de soutien
Nous avons interrogé des responsables formation, managers et apprenants du monde entier sur leurs priorités, les défis qu’ils rencontrent et sur leurs motivations à se former. Ce que nous avons découvert va peut-être vous surprendre. Les budgets consacrés à la formation devraient continuer de croître et aller de plus en plus vers le digital learning au … Continue reading
Weekly UI Claims in US (week ending January 9) – 965,000, an increase of 181,000 from the previous week
In the week ending January 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 965,000, an increase of 181,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised down by 3,000 from 787,000 to 784,000. The 4-week moving average was 834,250, an increase of 18,250 from the previous week’s revised average. … Continue reading
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