Human Resources

Skills are critically important to the continued success of Canada's aerospace sector, especially in today's knowledge-based and technology-driven economy. Industry Canada works closely with Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), in particular Human Resources Partnerships, to foster alliances among industry, governments and the learning system to ensure that Canadians have the skills and knowledge required for the workplace.

Additional information on people management and business skills development is available on the HR for Employers web site, created in association with HRSDC.

Canada Career Consortium
Develops and delivers high quality, relevant career information for all Canadians. Some popular examples are Canada Prospects, Career Directions, Destination 2020, The Work Handbook, and Canada Career Week support material.

Canada Career Information Partnership
Provides a national forum for career development leadership partners from all jurisdictions to foster a career development culture that integrates the use of occupational, labour market, and learning information to enable informed career — life/work — employment decisions.

Foreign Worker Program
Information for employers of foreign workers and for foreign workers in Canada.

Aerospace Career Links
Associations representing the nation's leading manufacturers of commercial, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, aircraft engines, missiles, spacecraft, and related components and equipment.

Careers in Aerospace
Aerospace, without doubt, is an industry with a future. Already supplying thousands of workers with high-skill, high-quality jobs, the next ten years will see exciting developments in products, technologies and the opportunity for this industry to achieve even higher levels of success in sales.

Best Practices in the Aerospace and Defence Industry
The Canadian aerospace believes that having effective human resources elements is a critical component to ensuring growth and survival of a company. Theses elements include the ability to adopt new managerial and shop-floor practices and to develop new staff training techniques, such as teaming and empowerment. The report identifies best practices that various companies have developed to address their human resources needs.