Labour Market Update

LCAE17 February 2009London, Ontario

new, not so new, not here yet…

• biomedical engineers• underwater hotel

manager• simulation

developers• global work process

co-ordinator• eco-relations

manager• transhumanist

designer/technician• human bio-

enhancement• physician recruiter

• hospitalists• retirement consultant• director of influence• manager of diversity• corporate alumni

director• corporate historian• co-ordinator of

workforce development and continuing education

• corporate age advisor

Forecasting the future ?

• Ontario Job Futures

• http://workforcecoalition.ca/ Ontario’s Workforce Shortage Coalition

• Looking-Ahead: A 10-Year Outlook for the Canadian Labour Market (2006-2015)

• http://www.councils.orgTASC PublicationsSector Council publications

Emerging Work?Current Opportunities?

trends

•globalization•growth of the service

sector• technologies•“green boom”•aging population•career management•higher education/training

globalization

• competition• worldwide shortages• energy costs• Canadian dollar • economic slowdown

Opportunities

• engineers• geologists• workers in oil, gas, energy, mining• accountants & financial

professionals• customer service representatives• skilled trades in manufacturing

growth of the Service Sector

• knowledge workers• public spending• business spending• from DIY to DIFM

Opportunities

• policing and security• accommodation and food

services• chefs, cooks• personal care• retail

technologies

• newer, faster, more…• creates new businesses• changes existing businesses• an online world• biotechnology

Opportunities• Information technology

– software engineers– computer engineers– database management– security, networking– business analysis

Check out http://www.ictc-ctic.ca/ for more info

• biologists

• cross-sectoral workers

green boom

• energy costs• “cleantech bubble”• biofuels, biogases, biomaterials,

bio…..

Opportunities

• environmental practitioners

• climate scientists

• meteorologists

• site remediation

aging population

• needs and wants• consumer spending• “where money is spent, jobs follow”• aging workforce

Opportunities

• construction trades• transportation• health care & elder care• social assistance• government• human resources

specialists

career management

• multiple jobs/careers

• multiple employers• SHIFT HAPPENS

The “Old” World of Jobs

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The “Emerging” World of Work

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higher education/training

• rising skill requirements• post-secondary• lifelong learning• multiple ways to learn

www.labourmarketinformation.ca

Elgin, Middlesex Oxford Local Training Board

www.localboard.on.ca

the Alliance of Sector Councilswww.councils.org/