What's New: staffing market prospects per segment (IT, light industrial, F&A and skilled trades)
Good morning,
This week, we dive into the prospects of different segments of the staffing industry, more specifically the high demand in the light industrial sector, finance & accounting with its regulatory ripples, IT with a strong change in paradigm in sight and the crunch in Canadian skilled trades.
Minh Dang - Editor in Chief - The Canadian Labour and Staffing Journal
Canada’s light industrial workers are in high demand. But for how long?
Across Canada’s sprawling logistics hubs and factory floors, a quiet labor shift is underway. General labourers, forklift drivers, and warehouse workers—often overlooked in broader employment conversations—have become essential to keeping the economy moving. But with automation accelerating, trade uncertainty mounting, and regulations tightening, the fu…
Finance & Accounting staffing navigates regional divergence and regulatory ripples
In Canada’s shifting labor market, one sector has quietly undergone a profound transformation: the finance and accounting staffing business. Once viewed as a steady, conservative corner of the talent economy, it is now caught in a dynamic tension between demographic shifts, regulatory reforms, economic pressures, and emerging technology.
Modest growth and shifting paradigms; the IT staffing sector faces a reset
After a decade of nearly uninterrupted growth, Canada’s technology staffing industry is facing a reckoning. As the country digests rising interest rates, tighter corporate budgets, and a global recalibration of the tech sector, the hiring frenzy that once characterized the industry has given way to a more cautious, fragmented, and uneven landscape.
Canada’s skilled trades crunch: shortages will bite further before it gets better
Canada’s economy is entering a new phase of tension: a surging demand for skilled‑trades labour colliding with sluggish credential recognition and bureaucratic immigration barriers.