Canadian Employment Prospects

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In this article, the writer discusses the employment prospects of university graduates. Among some of the applicable data addressed are overall employment figures related to unemployment rates, characteristics of the labor force and employment by sector. The conclusion is that while technology is one of the most promising prospects to take university training in, it is also one of the most susceptible to the global employment strategies of offshoring and outsourcing. However, the writer points out that the majority of industries in the Canadian economy rely on sectors that typically require university training or graduation. The writer concludes that while there are certainly other avenues towards developing valuable skills applicable in the marketplace, increasingly, one of the best places to acquire those skills is in the university setting and certainly through graduation from a structured academic program in a given field or industry.

Outline:
Overview
Employment Trends
Prospects by Industry
Employment Outlook
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Recent trends in the Canadian employment sector reveal an active employment market for university graduates who are graduating from certain fields and concentrations. The inverse of these observations is that university graduates who graduate in fields or concentrations that have little relevance to the economic activity driving the overall market, are at a disadvantage and quickly develop a detachment from the workforce as research at the University of Alberta has indicated. However, simply having completed a university program through graduation does seem to imply that the employment prospects for the individual doing so are more promising than those who have not."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Employment by industry. (2005). Statistics Canada (online). Retrieved November 5, 2006 from:http:// www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/
• Johnson, Doug. (Oct 2006).Skills for the knowledge worker. In Teacher Librarian, 34, p8(6). Retrieved November 07, 2006, from CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) via Thomson Gale
• Labour force characteristics. (2006). Statistics Canada (online). Retrieved November 5, 2006 from:http:// www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/
• Lehmann, Wolfgang. (Summer 2005). Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill, Rob Macmillan, and Sue Yeandle, Work to Welfare: How Men Become Detached from the Labour Market. In Canadian Journal of Sociology, 30, p371(3). Retrieved November 07, 2006, from CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) via Thomson Gale
• People employed by educational attainment.(2005). Statistics Canada (online). Retrieved November 5, 2006 from: http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/

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