Labour Market Skills for a New Economy

B. Where to Find More

Some Sources on Labour Market Skills and the New Economy

The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in Canada. Philippe Masse, Richard Roy and Yves Gingras, Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada, R-99-7E, 1998.

Findings on how skill structure of employment evolved in Canada, the role of technological change and employment restructuring, and meeting the skill needs of the knowledge-based economy in Canada. Explanation of information and non-information occupations and data and knowledge workers.

Canada Prospects. Annual Tabloid. Canada Career Consortium. 1999.

Order from Canada Career Consortium, 280 Albert St., Suite 903, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5G8. Fax: (613) 230-7681 or visit Web site http://www.careerccc.org under resources.

Career and LMI including skills information. Easy-to-read, interesting case studies and examples. Free.

Career Directions. Canada Career Consortium. 1999.
Order from Canada Career Consortium, 280 Albert St., Suite 903, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5G8. Fax: (613) 230-7681 or visit Web site http://www.careerccc.org.

Skills inventories for nine fields of work and description of relevant skills in each occupational profile. All profiles are for work that does not require a university degree.

Employability Skills 2000+ and Employability Skills Toolkit for the Self- Managing Learner. Conference Board of Canada. http://www.conferenceboard.ca.
Two-sided brochure of employability skills for 2000+.
The Conference Board's Employability Skills Toolkit is a suite of practical tools designed to support Employability Skills 2000+.

To order a print version contact: McGraw-Hill Ryerson http://www.mcgrawhill.ca. Toll-free Tel: 1 800 565-5758, Toll-free Fax: 1 800 463-5885.

Also check the Schoolnet Web site for a version of the Toolkit http://www.schoolnet.ca/EmployabilitySkills.

The Essential Skills. http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/hrp
/essential_skills/essential_skills_index.shtml.
Guide to Human Resources Development Canada's essential skills, applications and occupational profiles that rate each skill as it is used by workers in a variety of occupational groups from skill levels B, C and D of the National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Job Futures. http://jobfutures.ca/en/home.shtml. Inquire about hard copies: Youth Info Line 1 800 935-5555.
Occupational profiles have good clues to the skills needed in the description of duties. Also look at National Outlook to 2004 for hints about changing skill requirements based on recent labour market trends.

National Graduate Survey. "The Class of `95." Report of the 1997 National Survey of 1995 graduates. Catalogue #: SP-121-04-99. "The Class of `90 Revisited." Report of the 1995 Follow-up Survey of 1990 Graduates. Catalogue #: SC-082-10-97. Order from: Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada, Place du Portage, 165 Hotel de Ville, Phase ll, 7th Floor, Ottawa/Hull K1A 0J2. Tel: (819) 994-3304, Fax: (819) 953-9077, E-mail: research@spg.org. Also available on the Internet http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/hrdc/arb under publications and then reports.

NOC, Career Handbook, and Guide. http://www23.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/.

Order Occupational Descriptions and Index of Titles from: Nelson Canada at 1 800 268-2222. Catalogue number: MP53-25-1993E (English) or F (French). $89.99 plus taxes and handling.

Order Career Handbook from: Public Works and Government Service. Tel: (819) 956-4800, Fax: (819) 994-1498. Catalogue number: MP53-25-5-1996E (English) or F (French). $89.95 plus taxes and handling.

Order NOC Guide from: HRDC's Public Enquiries Unit by Fax: (819) 953-7260. Catalogue number: LM-505-03-99. No charge. Or download from Web site. Also available through bookstores.

The job duty and indicator descriptions in this resource provide a lead for the research of skills needed to perform the work.

Stepping Up: Skills and Opportunities in the Knowledge Economy. Report of the Expert Panel on Skills, Presented to the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology, 2000.

Examines and gives recommendations on the skills picture (current and potential shortages, access to skills needed) in five strategic industry sectors: aerospace, automotive, biotechnologies, environmental technologies, and information and communication technologies. For copies: Information Distribution Centre, Communications Branch, Industry Canada. Tel: (613) 947-7466, Fax: (613) 954-6436, E-mail: publications@ic.gc.ca.

Also available on the Advisory Council on Science and Technology Web site: http://acst-ccst.gc.ca.

Thinking in the Future Tense. Jennifer James. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Describes a process of seeing with new eyes and learning how to stay a step ahead of the trends.