Future Skills

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Supervisors, Managers Needed to Enhance Key Tourism Resource

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The Tourism Competency Framework is the sector’s digital library of the knowledge and skills needed for a wide range of tourism occupations. Hosted on the Workforce Management Engine, its competencies are used to develop National Occupational Standards, training resources, and professional certification programs. To ensure it continues to reflect the changing tourism landscape and meet […]

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Enhancing the Outdoor Industry’s Workforce Resiliency: Project Elevation

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Tourism HR Canada is excited to collaborate with the Outdoor Council of Canada (OCC) on Project Elevation, an initiative to increase the workforce resiliency of the outdoor industry in Alberta by enhancing the professionalism, skills, and standards of the outdoor workforce. Alberta is known internationally for its outdoor experiences. Outdoor activities drive a significant portion

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Shape the Next Generation of Certification

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Join us for industry consultations to develop Tourism HR Canada’s Emerit Micro-Certification Exams. Tourism HR Canada is looking for Line Cooks, Chefs, Sous Chefs, and cooking instructors/educators from anywhere in Canada for a unique opportunity to collaborate on the creation of micro-certification exams. We are seeking individuals who: The various activities include phone interviews, virtual

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Impact of Digitalization on Tourism Jobs: Do We Still Need People?

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The COVID pandemic has accelerated the impact of digitalization on tourism, and significant changes to business models and operational needs have triggered major workforce shifts. COVID has demonstrated the need for digitalization to help businesses be more resilient and able to respond to disruptive events such as catastrophic weather (e.g., hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes), bear markets,

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Invitation to Identify Future Skills Needs

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Tourism HR Canada is gathering input from employers, Indigenous representatives, and students to inform the launch of our pan-Canadian Tourism Competency Framework. We are currently developing a Future Skills Competency Framework tool to help businesses, job-seekers, and industry professionals in the tourism sector. Feedback will help to ensure the Future Skills Competency Framework will best

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Join Industry Consultations to Set New Canadian Tourism Standards

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Tourism HR Canada is extremely grateful for all the industry professionals who have shared insights into their occupations over the past few months, enabling us to build new occupational standards using the Future Skills Framework. The framework and these standards will help Canada’s tourism sector align the current and future skills of individuals in the

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Feed Into the Tourism Future Skills Framework

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Tourism HR Canada has now held over 50 sessions with industry professionals from across the country to review individual skills—or competencies—required across tourism, as part of the Future Skills Framework project. We now have a fully validated framework, marking an important milestone in the project. These individual competencies will be the ‘building blocks’ for a

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Levelling Up: Join New Future Skills Validation Phase

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Tourism HR Canada has now held over 50 sessions with industry professionals from across the country to review individual skills—or competencies—required across tourism, as part of the Future Skills Framework project. We now have a fully validated framework, marking an important milestone in the project. These individual competencies will be the ‘building blocks’ for a

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