In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we’re looking at new research suggesting employers are increasingly connecting wages and wage increases to skills. According to the brand new 2026 Canada Salary Guide, 83% of employers agree with the view that professionals with specialized skills are paid more than peers without them in the same role. True, employers seem very reluctant to hire un-proven candidates, but is there an opportunity here to shift the conversation to one where we can market people based on their skills and have it resonate with employers?

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/AQXqgSKw-1I 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we are talking about calls to end the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and whether this can form a job development strategy we can utilize for marketing our clients and students to these employers. Can Canada and sectors like agriculture succeed without these workers. You might be surprised to learn that while temporary students and workers make up more than 7% of Canada's population, they make up barely 3% of food service workers.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/w72Kvlsomyk 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we are talking a new trend called 
‘Open Hiring’ – where employers hire people: First Come / First Hire; no resume; no formal interview; no reference checks. While your local employers would likely be very concerned about this approach, retail giant ‘The Body Shop’ has been doing it since 2021 with great results.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/Gi_XeYJxFHo 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we discuss our plans for 'Leaders in Job Development'; gathering a group of leading career development organizations which champion the goals of job development and inclusive hiring. We're going to promote the benefits of job development supports directly to Canadian media outlets, influences, bloggers, podcasters, employers and employer groups. We're starting with an initial cohort of 4,000 media outlets. As we expand our membership of Leaders in Job Development, we will be growing and tailoring this to local media outlets and influencers in the communities our Leading organizations are situated in. Maybe your organization wants to be a Job Development Leader!

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/RHxmRtCuZ8c 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we examine new research from BuildForce Canada suggesting the construction sector isn't necessarily downsizing, it's instead 'normalizing'. With an average construction unemployment rate of 5.6%, unemployment in the sector is still remarkably low compared to historical norms. The construction labour force, the total number of people either working or actively seeking work, grew last year, rising from 1.69 million to 1.702 million. This 0.7% increase suggests that recruitment efforts are succeeding in attracting new talent, a critical development for an industry facing long-term demographic pressures from an aging workforce.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/HMS61aDgBA8 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we talk about how we can coach individuals to achieve their very best in their own job search efforts. A focused, well-prepared job seeker can do far more to impress an employer with the quality of our services than all the marketing in the world. While we titled this topic: ‘Shooting for 100% in job search’, one hundred percent is not reasonable but it is aspirational. Work with your clients to help them shoot for 100% and not ‘just enough’.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/y7EuUrPplZU  
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we talk about workplace accommodations and specifically about how employers can recruit parents who can neither secure nor afford child care. Many employers (that already accommodate hybrid employment) want employees to come in at least three days, or 60 per cent of the time. Allowing employees to start work after they drop their kids off for school and end their day when they need to pick up their kids, benefit from employees who are in the workplace almost 70 per cent of the time. We're talking about this and many other workplace accommodations.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/ex0_-X32bwc  
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we talk about the primary ways employers are using AI to sort, evaluate and communicate with candidates including: Resumé screening (35%); Training (35%); Candidate Communications (34%); Recruiting (33%); Candidate Screening (31%); and Assessments (31%). Job seekers are concerned about this trend and 25% trust employers less if AI is used to evaluate their information. Meanwhile, new research predicts that by the year 2028, one-in-four candidate profiles will be fake. It seems as though trust on both sides is fading.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/hzXHkkRAtnE  
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we talk about how careers in early childhood education are being transformed by '$10-a-Day' child care funding. Provinces and territories have committed to having the program fully in place by April 2026. There's already been an increase of about 150,000 licensed child care spaces since 2019.

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/a21DSQf3sUc 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org

In this episode of #MotivatingMondays, we talk about how employer engagement professionals can take the insights they learn from employers to help shape client service and build a 'team-approach' achieving employment outcomes. For instance, if we look at new research from the CFIB, we learn nearly 7 in 10 (67%) of small importers report paying Canada’s full retaliatory tariffs on goods from the U.S. without any price adjustment from suppliers. How does this impact how we approach employers reliant on trade and what do job seekers need to understand?

#MotivingMondays, is a weekly YouTube series dedicated to help Canadian job developers and other employer engagement professionals develop the tools, resources, expertise and network needed to excel in achieving sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and students.

If you would like to join us LIVE, we meet every Monday morning online with job developers from across Canada to discuss a new topic. Meetings are 30 minutes and start at 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern; 12:30 Atlantic and at 1pm in Newfoundland and Labrador.

To start your FREE membership in the Canadian Job Development Network, please visit: www.JobDevelopment.org and click our membership tab: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/ieuhtvc 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/cudRQlj9kY4 
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.JobDevelopment.org