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CareerMash: Separating fact from fiction about today’s in-demand tech careers

Toronto – September 15, 2011 – Today, the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) launched CareerMash, a spectrum of outreach initiatives designed to challenge and change perceptions about the technology-related careers that Canada’s economy needs today and tomorrow. Over …
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Study shows the “cool factor” and not job stability concerns matters more to high school students considering careers in ICT

TORONTO, June 9, 2009 – Canada’s Generation Y high school students believe that jobs in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector pay well, are easy to find and offer good job security. But according to a recent study of Grade 9 & 10 high school students conducted by the Conference Board of Canada, these factors have no bearing on whether or not they are attracted to an ICT career.
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Tangible measures to ensure a strong emerging workforce in a vital sector for Montreal

Montreal, April 29, 2009 -  In the brief submitted today to Montreal’s standing committee of the urban area council for the city’s economic development, the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills presents a series of concrete measures and approaches to …
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A National ICT Week to tackle the ICT labor shortage

MONTREAL – December 17, 2008 – The Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) will conduct a series of events and activities to tackle the crisis in the information and communications technology labor market of an increasing shortage of university …
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