Canada – 5.7 unemployed people for every job vacancy (April 2015)

Businesses reported 243,000 job vacancies in April, little changed compared with April 2014. For every job vacancy, there were 5.7 unemployed people, down from 6.2 recorded 12 months earlier.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.6% in April, similar to the rate posted one year earlier.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in April 2015.