Canada / 5.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy

There were 268,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in October, compared with 254,000 vacancies in October 2011. There were 5.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy, down slightly from 5.3 one year earlier.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.8% in October, unchanged from 12 months earlier.

Source:

via The Daily — Job vacancies, three-month average ending in October 2012.