[cs_content][cs_element_section _id=”1″ ][cs_element_layout_row _id=”2″ ][cs_element_layout_column _id=”3″ ][cs_element_headline _id=”4″ ][cs_content_seo]CASE Leverages Power of Technology to Address Canadian Workforce Shortage\\n\\nSubheadline space\\n\\n[\/cs_content_seo][cs_element_text _id=”5″ ][cs_element_text _id=”6″ ][cs_content_seo]The Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE) has partnered with Fit First\u00ae Technologies to assess, train, and link persons with disabilities to employers, and to enhance the way they participate in the workforce. Funded by the Government of Canada\u2019s Sectoral Initiative Program (SIP), the CASE Innovation Lab Project supports partnerships with organizations like Fit First to develop and implement sector-based solutions to address workforce challenges.
\nThe Canadian job market is in the throes of a labour shortage. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment to job vacancy ratio is at a historic low in every province. Boomers are exiting the workforce at an alarming rate, and COVID ushered many \u2018near retirement\u2019 individuals into early retirement. There are simply more positions available than people to fill them. The demand for skilled workers exceeds availability, particularly in up-and-coming sectors across the country such as information and communication technology, agriculture, natural resources, and environment.
\nEarlier this year, the Fit First\u00ae Technologies platform Jobtimize\u00ae was selected as one of three promising technologies to receive support from the CASE Innovation Lab. \u201cWe\u2019re harnessing the power of innovative technology to bridge the gap between under-employed populations and employers in need of new, diverse talent,\u201d says Joanna Goode, Executive Director of CASE. \u201cThere are currently approximately 1 million Canadian job seekers experiencing disability who are unemployed or underemployed, and Canadian employers coast to coast need the skills, education, and experience of this untapped talent resource.\u201d
\n\u201cAptitude is evenly distributed, opportunity is not,\u201d says Jan van der Hoop, President of Fit First\u00ae Technologies. \u201cThere is a world of hidden talent out there. Our Jobtimize\u00ae platform allows us to look beyond the resume and find people who may face barriers to employment.
\nThe Jobtimize\u00ae technology digs deeper to understand the person behind a resume. For decades organizations have relied upon resumes as the heart of their recruitment process, which systematically excludes strong candidates without a mainstream resume due to limited access to traditional education and employment opportunities. Recruitment systems are geared to screen for pre-determined patterns of education and experience that may not sync with the skills required to do the job.
\nFor more information about the Jobtimize Platform, visit https:\/\/fitfirsttech.com\/products\/jobtimize\/. To learn about the CASE Innovation Lab, visit https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/innovation-lab\/.
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L'Association canadienne pour l'emploi soutenu (ACES) s'est associ\u00e9e \u00e0 Fit First\u00ae Technologies pour \u00e9valuer, former et mettre en relation des personnes handicap\u00e9es avec des employeurs, et pour am\u00e9liorer leur participation au march\u00e9 du travail. Financ\u00e9 par le Programme d'initiatives sectorielles (PIS) du gouvernement du Canada, le Projet Laboratoire d'innovation de l'ACES soutient les partenariats avec des organisations comme Fit First pour d\u00e9velopper et mettre en \u0153uvre des solutions bas\u00e9es sur les secteurs afin de relever les d\u00e9fis du march\u00e9 du travail.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3633,"featured_media":9224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportedemployment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}