O c t o b e r 2 The Future of Jobs

Canada
Working Age Population
26,359,853
1 / 2
67.9%
Attainment of basic education
—
61.2%
49.7%
71.1%
68.4%
4.2%
8%
12.8%
65.9%
10.7%
36.1%
4.8%
10.5%
8.9%
6%
6.4%
5.5%
91%
91%
88%
84%
81%
79%
72%
72%
68%
60%
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Current skills in focus of existing reskilling/upskilling
programmes
Share of companies surveyed identifying this skill as being in focus
across their reskilling or upskilling programmes
1.
Leadership and social influence
2.
Analytical thinking and innovation
3.
Critical thinking and analysis
4.
Technology design and programming
5.
Active learning and learning strategies
6.
Technology use, monitoring and control
7.
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
8.
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
9.
Quality control and safety awareness
10.
Management of personnel
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Retrain existing employees
Look to automate the work
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Hire freelancers with skills relevant to new
technologies
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Strategic redundancies of staff who lack the skills
to use new technologies
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
42%
Internal learning and development
20%
Private training providers
17.6%
External online training
8.2%
Public educational institutions
6.2%
Public training providers
6%
Private educational institutions