Insights on the Global Skills Economy
Talent assessment as an agent for gender equity
Without ever having met you, I can tell you something you have in common with your great-great-grandfather. You have both taken the same kinds of tests. While we have repeatedly innovated content delivery mechanisms, introduced presentation software, learning management systems, and any number of other technological and procedural innovations to disseminate learning content, society has failed...
Where Reconciliation Meets Workforce Development
On The Job Learning Transforms Indigenous Skilling Outcomes Over the last 30 years in North America, the widening wage and income gap has disproportionately impacted traditionally underrepresented groups. In Canada, this has been particularly evident amongst Indigenous communities. Despite improvements in the way in which private investments compensate and even prioritize Indigenous involvement,...
How an overhaul of talent assessment can bridge the giant skills gap and solve our labour crisis
There are 6.5 million unemployed people in the United States, yet nearly 11 million job openings point to the massive skills gap among current workforces. Meanwhile, the Great Resignation is in full swing, fuelled by toxic work environments and unaddressed grief from two years of pandemic life. The tried and tested assessment methods of recognizing talent through traditional assessments are no...
Testing our Patience: Traditional Skills Assessment Earns a Failing Grade
As has been extensively documented, the world is currently experiencing a skills gap that threatens to decimate economies. The global economy stands to sacrifice trillions of dollars in productivity and economic development, directly attributed to this skills gap. It is high time we stopped referring to it as a “skills gap”; we are actually drowning in a “skills canyon”. How can this be?...