Wrap your brain around this, you Douglas Coupland-esque Gen Xers and all you Gen Yers. Young people today will be coming into a labour force in which for the next 20 years they ll know nothing but jobs, promotions, raises and being really valued by the company. With the advent of new companies and new technologies, employers are now finding a job market which is highly competitive. We are moving into an employee s market. This means employees have more power because they re a lot more valuable.
Human resources are among the CEO s top concerns.
We would not have found that among executives 10 years ago. Gotta fumble in the dark if you wanna see the light. Here s the thing, we were told, if we want jobs, we re gonna have to create them ourselves. According to Statistics Canada, self-employment accounted for nearly 60 percent of all employment growth between 1990 and 1998. What has saved the Canadian economy has been entrepreneurship, Reid reflected recently in a speech in Victoria.