Last week StatsCan announced an unemployment rate of 10.9% in July, down from 12.3% in June. As people begin to return to the labour market amidst easing restrictions, experts advise to prepare for a post-coronavirus workforce by acquiring skills in technology. In an effort to make re-skilling opportunities accessible, Canadian tech education leader Lighthouse Labs […]
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Lighthouse Labs Launches Career Accelerator
The world of work has gone through major changes in these last few months. Millions of people have lost their jobs and we’ve been accelerated into a digital world we anticipated seeing years down the road. The abrupt changes we’ve experienced have flipped work as we once knew it on its head – challenging many […]
Lighthouse Labs’ Guide to Trending Skills for Developers
No matter what you do or where you do it, the quest for efficiency is an infinite game. This is the role that software plays in our fast-paced world. A less obvious fact is that the art of crafting cutting-edge software is in that endless race to efficiency as well. It’s like automating the automator. […]
Lighthouse Labs Announces $500K in Scholarships for Canadians Affected by COVID-19
Lighthouse Labs announced today the launch of a new scholarship fund benefitting Canadians who are facing economic uncertainty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scholarships will give recipients access to a selection of Lighthouse Labs’ full-time or part-time coding and data courses. “As a company, we thought long and hard about how we […]
In the Automated Future, Creativity Means Success
The “future of work” is not a far-off concept – it’s currently happening all around us. Almost daily, we interact with some form of automation, from chatbots to self-populating calendars. As automation takes over more administrative work, roles and responsibilities will transform and a heavy mix of creativity will be needed for the future of […]