22 April 2025

Interview with Genevieve Dufour by Les Connecteurs magazine on the changing labour market in the ICT sector

This edition of Les Connecteurs magazine highlights the issues and challenges facing the labour market in the context of technological evolution.

In an interview, Genevieve Dufour, Director of Major Collaborative Projects at CIRANO, discusses the need to better understand the changing labour market in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, in order to train, support and equip current and future workers.

“In 2024, a third of job offers required technological skills, and 20% of them required skills beyond those of an office-based nature,” she explains.

 

Read the full interview

 

Several CIRANO studies are also cited:

Évaluation des compétences numériques dans les emplois au Québec et au Canada

Stratégie de mise à niveau technologique des entreprises québécoises