It is an interesting time to be at the intersection of tech and talent in Canada in 2023. Even by the already accelerated standards of the tech industry, the rate of change in recent years has been challenging to keep up with. The angles which change is coming from are varied, making it all the […]
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Article Actively Hiring for New CGI Team to Bolster Ecommerce Experience
In 2022, Vancouver-based Article joined a long list of Canadian tech firms who, pressured by sudden economic shifts, made the difficult decision to downsize. “Today is a very difficult day at Article,” chief executive Aamir Baig wrote in a memo last August, as his company . “This is my fault.” Baig let go of more than […]
International Firms Target Canadian Tech Talent for Next Chapter of Growth
Much of last year in tech was marked by layoffs, from fledging local startups with limited reserves to some of the biggest tech titans on earth in Amazon and Meta, and hiring remains slow. Still, this is tech—wherever there is a downside there is also an opportunity. For all the doom and gloom, companies across Canada are […]
Most Canadian CEOs Intend to Grow Company Headcount Moving Forward
The chief executives behind Canada’s companies consider inflation, cost of living, new technologies, a tight labour market, and geopolitical uncertainty as factors liable to derail future growth, finds KPMG International’s 2023 CEO Outlook. A high rate of personal confidence in the Canadian economy carries over from last year’s record optimism but is tempered an “unprecedented list […]
LinkedIn’s 15 Startups Where Canadians Want To Work
The past year has been challenging for a range of businesses, marked by continued inflation and an increasingly uncertain economic landscape. Startups have not been immune, with venture capital deals in Canada dropping by 71% on an annual basis in the first quarter as higher interest rates and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rippled through the global […]
Promising Future for Canadian Tech Talent Emerges from Chaos of 2022
From the start of 2020 through the end of 2022, Canada’s tech talent workforce expanded by 150,000, according to data from CBRE’s 2023 Scoring Tech Talent report. Momentum halted last year, though, when 150,000 tech workers were laid off globally across 1,000 companies. It was a wild and bumpy ride for many. But layoffs haven’t damped Canada’s […]
Actively Expanding Firms Highlight Demand for Canadian Tech Talent
Much of the last year and change in tech has been marked by layoffs. Amidst an uncertain global economy and the threat of AI upending every aspect of life as we know it, many tech companies that overreached during the Covid Pandemic or cryptocurrency bull run have since been humbled—from fledging local startups with limited […]
Canada’s Tech Workforce Expanded 15% During Pandemic
Canada’s tech workforce grew by a substantial figure during the Pandemic, data from CBRE’s 2023 Scoring Tech Talent report shows. And despite a widespread movement toward working from home, most growth still orbits around the country’s major innovation hubs. The annual report, which comprehensively analyzes Canada’s tech talent workforce trends, found that the nation’s workforce […]
Skilling Talent at the Intersection of Trades and Technology
Even as digital transformation sweeps across the Western world, construction trades remain as topical as ever. It’s obvious why. The nation of Canada added 300,000 more people in the first three months of this year, Statistics Canada reported recently, with 98% of growth coming from immigrants. This policy-driven population growth, combined with already unaffordable housing, puts tremendous pressure […]
How Emily Carr University Trains Future Skills for a Stronger BC
Following the highest tech jobs growth in North America, the Vancouver region saw a lot of layoffs in tech last year. Combined with a Pandemic-fuelled shift to hybrid work, the city is still in a state of flux. Moving forward, though, we know that demand for tech skills remains, especially around coveted roles. There is momentum to be maintained. The province […]