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janellekoivula

Trends in Tech Careers: How to Stay Competitive and Ahead of the Crowd - 0 views

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  • janellekoivula on 09 Dec 14
     
    As the globalization trend continues to impact our workforce, there have been many studies and explorations into the preventative strategies for employees to utilize as they continue along their career path. Due to the mass shift towards integration, many individuals have become unemployed because they lack more than one set of skills and knowledge, and do not have a repository of relevant information to rely on. This article provides a few preventative measures for those within the IT industry, but these practices can also be applied to related fields and professions, as it advocates the idea that employees must become competitive and obtain more than 1 specific talent in order to remain ahead of the crowd and stay employed.
janellekoivula

Plutocrats vs. Populists - 0 views

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week 9 plutocrats demise of the middle class

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  • janellekoivula on 09 Dec 14
     
    This article explains the difference between emerging new social class "plutocrats" - which refers to the trend of wealthy individuals to become involved with social and political policies. This article helps to highlight the potential consequences of this new class, as well as the possible opportunities it may bring. This article helps to explain this phenomenon, as well as provide insight into the impacts and challenges of an ever-globalizing world.
janellekoivula

How To Beat The Five Killers Of Virtual Working - 0 views

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week 8 killers of virtual working preventative strategies impacts and challenges of globalization

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  • janellekoivula on 09 Dec 14
     
    This article provides preventative strategies for negative outcomes within virtual working environments. As the trend is currently increasing the ability of individuals to collaborate via the internet, the "killers" must also be made public, to ensure virtual organizations and employee teams can become aware and prevent the potential implications of working over the internet rather than in traditional work spaces. This enables work to continue to be innovative, rewarding, and meaningful to each employee.
janellekoivula

The hunt for qualified workers: employers have 300,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs - 0 views

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week 6 occupational supply and demand manufacturing lack of supply for the demand

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  • janellekoivula on 09 Dec 14
     
    This article helps to reveal the unfilled positions in the US labour market, which has serious implications on the future of American manufacturing. Traditional skills and occupations have decreased significantly in modern society, and there are fewer people interested in obtaining the experience or knowledge to do such jobs.
missjillian

Redefining 'made in China': How one firm is forging a new path for manufacturers - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article21839375

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  • missjillian on 09 Dec 14
     
    Redefining 'made in China': How one firm is forging a new path for manufacturers
arlaynacurtin

Technology's Impact on Careers - 0 views

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  • arlaynacurtin on 08 Dec 14
     
    For this weeks last posting I decided to put up something on how how technology is changing people's work lives. This article talks about changing work rules, such as working from home or virtually. It also talks about how in the future computer science and information technology will rapidly grow.
christinawright

Ontario private sector to play pivotal role in youth unemployment - 0 views

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  • christinawright on 08 Dec 14
     
    I am particularly interested in working with at risk youth. It has been identified that youth unemployment and underemployment is in fact rising and is, amazingly, higher than during the recession! This article talks about medium and large companies getting on board to help young people gain skills during high school and/or post-secondary in order to add practical experience to their resume, along with their debt-inducing education. It will be interesting to see what happens over the coming years.
christinawright

Australian Government Job Outlook Quiz - 0 views

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  • christinawright on 08 Dec 14
     
    I found going through the Shift Workbook very insightful and it inspired me to look around for some additional quizzes that assess your areas of interest. For me, in the past, I have always been very analytical, interested in lab testing, anything in the sciences really, and have shifted toward a more person-focused career journey. It's so interesting to me to do these little quizzes and see that my results have completely switched to the "helping" profession! It's just 15 questions and I feel it's a nice and easy quiz for the younger population. It gives results for the following categories: helping, people, administrative, creative, technical, practical.
sarahbunting

Earning prospects for Canadian graduates: 20 Year Study - Career Professionals of Canada - 0 views

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  • sarahbunting on 08 Dec 14
     
    This article provides an overview of and link to the Cumulative Earrings of Post Secondary Graduates Over 20 Years report by Statistics Canada. It looks at gender and education level as main factors.
sarahbunting

ContactPoint | Social Justice: What's the Career Practitioner's Role? - 0 views

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  • sarahbunting on 08 Dec 14
     
    With my keen interest in social justice, I thought this was a great article to end the year on. This article summarizes much of what I feel about poverty and social justice. Career counselling is very client focused, and poverty is a socially constructed issue, and often the barriers our clients face are external to themselves. At the end the author sites how we must work with the community to make meaningful change for our clients. This is of utmost importance to me.
sarahbunting

Two Trends in Global Poverty | Brookings Institution - 0 views

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  • sarahbunting on 08 Dec 14
     
    The forces of the Shift that surrounded the changing face of poverty really interested me. I saw these as being important to my future because of my keen interest in social justice. I can see my future work having to do with helping underprivileged people. This article provides an interest perspective on why the face of the poor is changing, even though between 2005 and 2010 nearly half a billion people escaped $1.25-a-day poverty.
amycloutier

Resource for Career development professionals and students - 0 views

contactpoint.ca/jobs

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  • amycloutier on 08 Dec 14
     
    The link brings you to the job board, but the site seems to be a really good resource in general. It provides a newsletter, links to great articles on CERIC, information about courses/workshops/webinars/etc.
jscharrer

Working hard or hardly working? - Macleans.ca - 0 views

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  • jscharrer on 08 Dec 14
     
    In writing my paper on Shift I reflected a lot how technology globalization and fragmentation are impact the stress felt at work. This in an interesting article burnout norms of Western work culture.
jscharrer

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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  • jscharrer on 08 Dec 14
     
    This is a really interesting talk on why so many people struggle to be productive at work and how it impacts our lives; this connects well with Gratton's comments on fragmentation in the workplace.
michellewain

Economic Development - Trends and Issues in the Workforce - 0 views

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  • michellewain on 07 Dec 14
     
    EconomicDevelopment.Org is a hub of economic development news and resources from around the world. As a community of experts, professionals and members of the public, they seek to engage in conversation about issues and ideas surrounding economic development and its impact on people and places around the globe. They have a page specifically for the 'workforce' and trends and issues happening in the world of work. This initiative grew out of a longstanding commitment by Millier Dickinson Blais, a Canadian economic development consulting firm, to contribute to the growth of the economic development profession and generate discussion around issues and developments in the industry. The most comprehensive economic development site *Beyond the flow of news, with information and links to relevant resources *Bringing together leading contributors to share insightful and thought-provoking content *Facilitating exchange and interactions within a community of industry peers
colinsarkany

Job Market Trends and News - Job Bank - 0 views

www.jobbank.gc.ca/LMI_bulletin.do

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  • Following labour market events is key to helping job seekers understand where the opportunities (short, medium and long-term) might be in a local community and elsewhere in the country.
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      colinsarkany on 07 Dec 14
       
      Local careers highlighted by this great government resource, specifically the SAIL store that opened just off Hespeler Road (Hwy 24) in Cambridge. It's great to see something so up to date, and be locally relevant!
  • The University of Windsor will be constructing a new, additional building for the School for Arts and Creative Innovation at the former Tunnel Bar-B-Q site downtown. The $12.8M development will begin in early 2015 and completed by August 2016. Construction Job Creation ON
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  • SAIL, an outdoors superstore, opened in Cambridge creating over 130 jobs Retail Trade Job Creation ON Kasabonika Lake First Nation received an estimated $12M from the Government of Canada to upgrade the community's diesel generating station. Con-Pro Industries Canada Ltd. was awarded the contract and will begin construction in spring 2015. Construction Job Creation ON Atelka Inc. is adding 25 bilingual customer service agent positions at its call centre in Cornwall Administrative and Support, Waste Management and Remediation Services Job Creation ON Quebec-based clothing retailer La Maison Simons will open a store at the Rideau Centre in Ottawa in August 2016 Retail Trade Job Creation ON Highbury Canco Corporation is planning to expand its product line, which could result in 15 new jobs at its food processing plant in Leamington over the next few months. The company took over the Heinz plant in the summer 2014. Manufacturing Job Creation ON Cogeco Data Services Inc. is adding 20,000-sq.-ft. to its centre in Barrie by early 2015 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Job Creation ON Construction began on the Advanced Composites Fabrication, Repair and Test Centre at Canadore College's Aviation Technology Campus in North Bay. The $6M facility is expected to be open by summer 2015. Construction Job Creation BC Northern Iron Corp. is expected to begin dewatering the former Griffith Mine North Pit in the Red Lake mining district at the end of April 2015 to determine the quality and quantity of iron ore remaining Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Job Creation ON Retailer Reitmans (Canada) Limited will close its 107 Smart Set stores in Canada over the next 12 to 18 months, about 76 of which will be converted to other banners of the company. The total number of jobs affected in Ontario is currently unknown. Retail Trade Layoff ON
  • colinsarkany on 07 Dec 14
     
    This government of Canada resource is a search tool focused on large scale work-related events that are up-to-date within four weeks! This resource outlines what industry is in demand or what is up and coming, and has breakdowns and search features for each province/territory. This resource is a great place to find inspiration in a job search, as it helps focus in on various industries. 
shawnaderksen

Demographics in the Workplace - 0 views

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  • shawnaderksen on 05 Dec 14
     
    Does your age affect your work? This article speaks of age demographics and how different ages affect people differently in the workplace
andreafaulkner

Guide to 12 Disruptive Technologies - 1 views

www.intelligenthq.com/...12-disruptive-technologies

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  • andreafaulkner on 05 Dec 14
     
    This looks like a really interesting website, that features quite a few different articles on work-place trends. This particular article reviews 10 technological developments that have the potential to be "disruptive" to how businesses currently run.
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