DR. JON CALLEGHER

Dr. Jon Callegher is the Executive Director of Job Talks, a research and media agency that focuses on recruitment in the Skilled Trades and Construction sector. An award-winning researcher, he has interviewed more than 200 young skilled tradespeople and surveyed thousands of workers about their careers. He has been invited to share his employment research and recommendations on CBC radio, Global National, Cityline, and at conferences across Canada and the United States.

Jon is also full professor in the School of Marketing at George Brown College in Toronto and he has been the Project Director for more than $1.5 million in partnership research projects. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Waterloo and he is the author of Pearson’s new standard university and college Marketing Research textbook.