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March 3, 2025 No Comments
Navigating a career can be a challenge! It’s important to build skills and grow your networks. Take time to connect, and get ready for what happens next!
Navigating a career can be a challenge! It’s important to build skills and grow your networks. Take time to connect, and get ready for what happens next!
Take advantage of a powerful new AI-driven Upskill Canada Hub to connect with skills and career information and upskilling opportunities.
Everyone needs to find their place in the future economy, which will be led by knowledge-intensive sectors like biotech and biomanufacturing. For job-seekers, our programs will help you upskill into a great career.
The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association reports that over 80% of companies face labor and skills shortages. Companies need new talent for advanced technology adoption, while workers require quick, industry-relevant upskilling programs.
During tough times, businesses cut back on new spending and where it happens at all, it’s directed at areas considered vital for survival and future growth. Workforces that made sense during the good times are let go, while talent pools that benefitted from optimistic growth scenarios are pared back. If you’ve been working in the service sector or in other occupations squeezed by the slump, this may be one of the reasons you’re considering a new career.
Many great upskilling organizations on the ground can help employers source great talent, while enabling workers to stay ahead of the learning curve. At Palette Skills, our experience shows at least five reasons your business should be partnering with upskilling organizations.
Explore how to overcome employer concerns when integrating individuals without industry experience. Uncover effective onboarding and training strategies to harness the full potential of new hires and drive team success.
The fact is that as a B2B sales professional, you’ll face rejection all the time. What matters is how well you handle rejection, how much you learn from it, how resilient you are, and how rejection figures as part of your long-term game plan. So here are four ways to make rejection work for you.
How well do you understand the buyer’s journey when it comes to B2B (business-to-business) tech sales? The journey comes down to five or even three simple steps you can print out as a diagram or remember in your head. However, just knowing these simple phases is not the same as understanding the psychology behind the buyer’s journey.
In the realm of B2B sales, encompassing cold calling and CRM, building authentic connections is crucial. Learn practical tips to make each call enjoyable, conduct thorough research, and maintain patience for long-term success.
Are you keeping up with the new opportunities available in clean technology? You should be, because the number of new careers available to Canadian workers in what’s known as environmental and clean technology (ECT) is pretty much as wide as the horizon. In fact, according to some experts, jobs in ECT are predicted to grow as much as 50% by 2030.
Upskill Canada has introduced a range of programs aimed at swiftly equipping Canadians to address the challenges in cybersecurity. Explore these promising upskilling opportunities with us to identify the one that best suits your needs!
There are several factors driving the rapid development of advanced manufacturing in Canada, and it’s worth looking at just a few of them to see why things are happening so quickly, and on such a broad scale.
It may not surprise you to learn that two of the biggest challenges facing newcomers to Canada are closely related. On the one hand, newcomers face obstacles when it comes to finding employment. But another issue for newcomers is getting work that utilizes the skills they have. Some estimates show that recent immigrants face an unemployment rate that is fully 1% higher than Canadians born in the country.
Martha—that’s how she’d like to be known—is the first person to be hired by one of our employer partners through Upskill Canada, just three months after the launch of the national talent platform. There is nothing quite as gratifying as celebrating the successful career transition of one of our program participants
If you’ve been wondering how to be a part of BC’s tech revolution, the great news is that there’s a place for you, even if you don’t have a tech background, or a degree in software engineering. One of the most attractive aspects of a technology sales career is the potential for substantial financial rewards.
We wanted to sit down with Jader Ranconi, our Automation and Digital Agriculture Specialist program alum, to ask him about his experience in the program, and find out how it helped him get started in a Canadian agribusiness career.
From cybersecurity providers and IT consulting, to cloud computing services and data analytics, tech professionals in BC are raising the bar when it comes to managing work and personal life.
B2B tech sales is a great career choice for people who love solving problems. Great companies need people who can understand the needs of business, and help them find the right solutions.
“We could not be more thrilled to be expanding the Automation & Digital Agriculture Specialist Program to Alberta, with our first cohort launching June 12, 2023,” said Palette Skills CEO Rhonda Barnet. “We have enjoyed great success in Saskatchewan because we understand that employers need talent with the right foundational skills and who possess a strong drive and desire to build careers in the agri-food industry.”
Today, Palette Skills is excited to launch Upskill Canada, a national talent platform that will help fast-growing companies access the talent they need to succeed and create new career pathways for workers to rapidly transition into high-demand roles.
It’s easy to take the skills required to be a great business development representative (BDR) for granted, but in today’s competitive and online business world, it’s worth taking a look at some critical marketing skills that will set you apart as a sales professional.
If we know that too much uniformity is bad, why do we accept it in our workplaces? Palette Skills looks at how to build diversity in your organization!
Have a job interview coming up? Then you’ll need to learn about what are called behavioural interview questions. They can be intimidating, but we’ve got a guide for giving great answers!
It’s always a great time to align your career path with your aspirations, no matter if it’s about finding a better work-life balance, landing a better salary, or starting a career that will challenge you to learn and grow. Here are 3 essential steps to manage a smooth career transition!
HiredHippo is a wildly successful recruitment platform that uses sophisticated tech to connect the right people to the right jobs. Talent that joins SalesCamp will have exclusive access to HiredHippo services and get matched with the top high growth companies.
At Palette Skills, we believe that great skills make the difference when it comes to a successful career in tech sales. And we also believe that you can learn them all!
Women re-entering the workforce face many challenges. Not everything will go your way, and you have to get used to constantly learning and adapting to the demands of your new career. But the good news is that working in tech is rewarding. The satisfaction you’ll feel when you apply what you’ve learned and see results is really fulfilling.
We get so focused on doing one thing that it’s difficult to see the wider impact of what we do. Our programs build technical skills, and skills that help participants change their lives, and find personal success.
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