You’re invited!

The Future of Canadian Automotive Labourforce (FOCAL) Initiative provides insightful information, industry data and future labour market forecasts for the automotive industry in Canada, as it transitions to an electrified and decarbonized future.

Join us for this complimentary webinar on April 20, 2023 at 10am EST, focusing on the Regions of Waterloo, Wellington, Dufferin, and Simcoe with key manufacturing communities in Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo and Barrie, to name a few.

• Labour market supply and demand, skills shortages, future jobs and employment forecasts for many occupations in the automotive sector.
• Labour market impacts for the industry, as it shifts from ICE to EVs, and support programs available for hiring and training.
• Some of the tools FOCAL is developing to help companies recruit include standardized, occupational profiles and skills transferability matrices, providing assistance for impacted workers in transition.

Who should attend? Automotive industry personnel, academic institutions, work force and career development professionals, government, consultants, students, those looking to gain entry into the automotive sector, employees transitioning or seeking to learn more about future labour needs of the industry.

The Future of Canadian Automotive Labourforce (FOCAL) Initiative, funded by the Government of Canada, is a collaboration of the Canadian Skills Training and Employment Coalition (CSTEC), the Automotive Policy Research Centre (APRC) and Prism Economics and Analysis.