Communications Specialist
Katie Sheedy (she/her)
Katie Sheedy is a designer and communications specialist who is passionate about creating accessible and engaging digital content. Her work is focused on knowledge translation and data visualization. Katie is passionate about creating content that is accessible for all.
Before joining LMIC, Katie split her time between freelancing and working for a policy think tank. Prior to her career in design and communications, Katie was a lawyer and worked as an in-house counsel specializing in corporation management and real estate law.
Katie holds a diploma in graphic design from Algonquin College, a law degree and an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Ottawa.
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The LMI Canadians Want
One of the most important choices a person will make is which career to pursue. It’s a choice, in fact, that we prepare for our entire lives. Given that roughly…
LMI Insights Report no. 11, Educational and Career Choices for Students and Parents: The role of labour market information
Parents and students agree that the best time to start receiving LMI is during high school. Their main challenge is the difficulty in finding relevant information.
Disruption, distribution, and data
On February 27th, we participated in the 2019 Building Connections conference organized by the Ottawa Employment Hub. It was an opportunity to bring together policy makers, academics, think tanks, and practitioners to discuss…
LMI Insights Report no. 10, Insights into skills and jobs advertised on LinkedIn in 2018
As jobs evolve alongside technological innovations, workers will need the right skills to be successful. LMIC partnered with LinkedIn to report on top skills and jobs advertised in 2018.
Modernizing how information is communicated
We have long heard the call for labour market information – and data more generally – to be communicated and shared with Canadians in a more user-friendly way. This was…