archiveunemployment

Canada's economy added 56,000 jobs in February, and most were full time, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Economists had been expecting a flat showing for the month, with a little over...

Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are four that we found interesting this week: Roadmaps and roadblocks: Career and life...

The national job vacancy rate eased slightly to 3.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018, down 0.1 per cent since the previous quarter, according to the Canadian Federation...

To read the headlines you'd think nearly every Canadian who wants a job would have one by now. The country's unemployment rate hit a 43-year low of 5.6 per cent...

The country saw a rush of 66,800 net new jobs in January in a gain fuelled by a hiring surge in the private sector, Statistics Canada said. The agency’s latest labour...

Five or six years ago, everyone from the US Chamber of Commerce to the Obama White House was talking about a “skills gap.” New research shows it was the consequence of...

New vice-president hired They fired her director Then they came for her When I saw Jen, she had been let go. For five years she had worked hard to build...

In November, General Motors Canada announced that within a year it would shutter its 100-year-old automotive manufacturing facility in Oshawa, ON.  Amid the ensuing media frenzy, it is important to...

Canada's unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 per cent in November, the lowest rate in comparable records going back to 1976, Statistics Canada said. The number of people directly employed in...

Everyone knows that the world of work is changing. We feel it when we talk with friends and neighbours about our own careers and we hear it on the news,...