A new survey of hiring decision-makers finds confidence climbing sharply — but the share of companies with unfillable open positions is climbing right along with it, a pairing that says more about the state of the labour market than either number alone.
Three-quarters of Canadian hiring managers — 74 percent
Canada's labour market spent June holding its breath. The economy added a modest 18,000 jobs, the employment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 60.8 percent, and the unemployment rate eased for a second straight month, to 6.5 percent, according to Statistics Canada'
Published monthly by the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services, the index tracks the billed hours reported by a panel of leading Canadian staffing firms — a sample large enough to represent roughly one-third of total industry sales, collected on ACSESS's behalf by Staffing Industry Analysts
Published monthly by the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services, the index tracks the billed hours reported by a panel of leading Canadian staffing firms — a sample large enough to represent roughly one-third of total industry sales, collected on ACSESS's behalf by Staffing Industry Analysts
A new survey of hiring decision-makers finds confidence climbing sharply — but the share of companies with unfillable open positions is climbing right along with it, a pairing that says more about the state of the labour market than either number alone.
Three-quarters of Canadian hiring managers — 74 percent
Canada's labour market spent June holding its breath. The economy added a modest 18,000 jobs, the employment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 60.8 percent, and the unemployment rate eased for a second straight month, to 6.5 percent, according to Statistics Canada'
The Bank of Canada’s latest Business Outlook Survey, released Monday, tells a story that will feel familiar to anyone who has spent the past few years trying to read Canada’s economy through a fog of geopolitical shocks: just as sentiment seemed to be firming, a new external jolt
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