Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

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Labour Market Update

• Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities
• 4 October 2008
• London, Ontario

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Supply and Demand
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Forecasting the future ?

• Ontario Job Futures
• http//workforcecoalition.ca/
• Ontarios Workforce Shortage Coalition
• Looking-Ahead A 10-Year Outlook for the Canadian
  Labour Market (2006-2015)
• http//www.councils.org
• TASC Publications
• Sector Council publications

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Emerging Work?Current Opportunities?

• trends

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• globalization
• technologies
• aging population
• growth of the service sector
• green boom
• higher education/training
• career management

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globalization

• competition
• worldwide shortages
• high energy costs
• stronger Canadian

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Opportunities

• engineers
• geologists
• workers in oil, gas, energy, mining
• accountants financial professionals
• customer service
• representatives

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technologies

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

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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

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aging population

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

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Opportunities

• construction trades
• transportation
• health care elder care
• social assistance
• human resources specialists

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Growth of the Service Sector

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

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Opportunities

• policing and security
• accommodation and food services
• chefs, cooks
• personal care
• retail

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Green Boom

• energy costs
• cleantech bubble
• biofuels, biogases, biomaterials, bio..

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Opportunities

• environmental practitioners
• climate scientists
• meteorologists
• site remediation

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Higher education/training

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

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career management

• multiple jobs/careers
• multiple employers
• SHIFT HAPPENS

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