Connecting Students to Tomorrow's ICT Jobs and Careers
Conference Board du Canada, June, 2009

To better understand the factors influencing career choices, the Conference Board conducted a survey among secondary level students, their parents, and their guidance counsellors. The survey—a first of its kind in the world—allows to find better solutions to the labour shortage in ICT.
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Pour la croissance de TechnoMontréal afin de soutenir la grappe
des TIC et ses partenaires
Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills, April 29, 2009

In the context of a public study on the state-of-affairs of the Montreal ICT cluster, the Coalition submitted a brief advocating the expansion of TechnoMontréal. A member of the Coalition, TechnoMontréal is proposing to position Montreal as a centre of creativity and innovation in order to encourage ICT businesses, along with talented employees, to settle in Montreal.
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IT enrolments and retention: situation report
ICTC (by David Ticoll), August 2008

The IT labour market is under pressure, and increasingly so. Demand is increasing. Baby boomers are beginning to retire. Post-secondary enrollments in IT and related programs have dropped dramatically over the past five years. Increased reliance on immigrants and offshoring will help but it is not enough. This report focuses on proposed action steps for addressing the enrollments challenge and how to understand the situation.
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Securing our Future
Conference Board of Canada, January 22, 2008

This study examines the critical recruitment challenges facing Canadian businesses in the ICT sector, the economic costs of not being able to fill those positions, as well as the factors that increase the shortage of qualified labour, and concludes with identifying potential solutions.
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ICTS Jobs 2.0. : How Canada can win in the 21st century global marketplace for Information and Communications Technologies and Services (ICTS)
ICTIC (by David Ticoll), March 2007

This report analyses the ICTS labour market trends in Canada as global job mobility, technological change, demographics, declining enrolments, and shifting business investment patterns have combined to create uncertainty.
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