Growing Your Workforce 3 – Your Path

Join us for a conversation with Jessica Gransaull, Executive Director of the STEAM Center St. Thomas, on the importance of STEAM skills for our area, and about a new campaign to help reach out to those who need it most through culture and representation.

Growing Your Workforce Live – Episode 2

The second Growing Your Workforce Live! episode is here! Watch the full presentation above or download the podcast episode below.

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Growing Your Workforce Live! is a new iteration of the publication focused on issues of hiring, training and retention. These 20 minute presentations will enlighten and invite you to dive in below the tip of the iceberg on workforce issues.

In this episode: how COVID-19 has changed the digital divide, plus a fireside chat with Kate Burns Gallagher, the Executive Director of Economic Development with the Western Ontario Warden’s Caucus (WOWC) about advocating for workforce issues at the decision making level.


Credits and sources:

https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/levelling-up/ (Digital literacy info)

https://careerwise.ceric.ca/2020/08/10/pulse-survey-how-employment-services-manager-carter-hammett-is-navigating-covid-19/#.Xz04xy2z06U
https://www.worktrends.ca
https://www.brookings.edu/topic/coronavirus-covid19/
https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/139.nsf/eng/h_00002.html

Growing Your Workforce – LIVE! – Episode 1

The first Growing Your Workforce Live! episode is here! Watch the full presentation above or download the podcast episode below.

Download the episode using the player’s menu on the right.

Growing Your Workforce Live! is a new iteration of the publication focused on issues of hiring, training and retention. These 20 minute presentations will enlighten and invite you to dive in below the tip of the iceberg on workforce issues.

The first episode addresses how the labour market has changed over the course of COVID-19 shutdowns, and share strategies and suggestions for developing workforce and skills in light of these changing.

Credits and sources:

More literature available in our library.

Participation rate study: https://workforcedevelopment.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/labour_participation_final_report-1.pdf

EmployerOne Results: https://www.worktrends.ca/employer-one-survey

Growing Your Workforce Conference Report: https://workforcedevelopment.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Revised_Growing-Your-Workforce-Report-2019.pdf

Worktrends Interactive Labour Market Facts: https://www.worktrends.ca/resources/labour-market-facts-london-economic-region-interactive-tool

StatCan labour force characeristics: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2017001-eng.htm

Music Credits:

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land
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New Direction by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4120-new-direction
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Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
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Sincerely by Kevin MacLeod
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