There were 220,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in November, a decline of 22,000 compared with November 2012. There were 5.6 unemployed people for every job vacancy compared with 5.2 one year earlier. The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in November, down from 1.6% 12 months earlier. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in November 2013. Related … Continue reading
In August, there were 219,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, a decline of 51,000 compared with August 2012. There were 6.4 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.2 one year earlier. The increase in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was all the result of the decline in job vacancies. The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in August, down from 1.8% 12 months earlier. … Continue reading
In January, there were 200,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, a decrease of 22,000 from January 2012. There were 6.5 unemployed people for every job vacancy, compared with 6.1 one year earlier. The national job vacancy rate was 1.4% in January, down from 1.6% 12 months earlier. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor via The Daily — Job vacancies, three-month average ending in January 2013.
The European Commission today published two reports analyzing the skills needed in Europe since there are 1.85 million unfilled vacancies throughout the EU. The European Vacancy Monitor and the European Job Mobility Bulletin aim to draw attention on existing vacancies in various fields in order to promote employment opportunities and boost growth. The European Job Mobility Bulletin indicates that … Continue reading
Commission President José Manuel Barroso today called on Europe’s digital businesses, governments, training and education sectors to join a Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs to address up to 900 000 job vacancies expected to exist in Europe in Information and Communication technologies (ICT) by 2015. Despite the current levels of unemployment, the number of digital … Continue reading
There were 267,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in September, up 19,000 from 12 months earlier. For every job vacancy, there were 5.3 unemployed people, down from 5.7 in September 2011. The decline in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was all the result of the increase in job vacancies. Ratio highest in the East, lowest in the Prairies Provincially, the highest ratios of unemployed … Continue reading