Canadian Labor Market: Facts And Figures 2017

Doing a research on the Canadian labor market? Looking at job vacancy rates gives you a good indication of what jobs employers are looking to fill.

Here is peek at some of the latest facts and figures from the first quarter of 2017, according to data from the Government of Canada’s Job Bank, released in April.

For the first quarter of 2017, Canada had a record of 328, 000 job vacancies.

PROVINCE	# OF VACANCIES
British Columbia	60,100
Alberta	38,400
Saskatchewan	9,200
Manitoba	10,700
Ontario	138,600
Quebec	53,000
Newfoundland and Labrador	3,400
New Brunswick	4,600
Nova Scotia	8,100
Prince Edward Island	700
Northwest Territories	600
Yukon	500
Nunavut	300

There were fewer job vacancies in every province, except in Nunavut, in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the first quarter of 2016. And the biggest shift is not surprisingly found in Alberta, with a drop in vacancies by almost half.

Where the jobs are

While this is probably not news to skilled immigrants having a hard time finding work in their field, more than a third of all job vacancies (115,000 or 34.9 percent) are related to sales and service occupations. The trades and transport sectors come next, with the second highest number of vacancies (42,000 or 12.8 percent).

# OF VACANCIES	POSITIONS
18,000	Food counter sales attendants, kitchen helpers, and related support occupations
15,600	Retail sales persons
9,800	Chefs and Cooks
9,700	Motor vehicle and transit drivers
9,500	Customer and information services representatives
9,300	Computer and information systems professionals
8,900	Professional occupations in nursing
8,800	Human resources and business service professionals
8,700	Store shelf stockers and clerks and other related occupations
7,700	Food and beverage services
3,900	Trades helpers and laborers
3,600	Longshore workers and material handlers

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