[northwest2k]

Does anyone have a list?

What are the hot, up-and-coming, in demand jobs in this country?

[1ajs]

anything to do with the trades ATM

[graupner]

Canada is an high-tech country where the fastest growing jobs are in oil sands cokers and ovens, coal mines, and all these cool sectors.
In Canada, high-tech, futurist industry is the fastest growing sector.

These are currently the fastest growing jobs in Canada:
Coal miner
Oil Sand Oven operator
Oil Sand 'Upgrader' operator
Oil Sand 'HydroCracker' operator
Oil Sand Trucker
Potash miner


Way to go Canada :tup:

And when the bubble burst, all these kids from the atlantic will wonder why they never got a degree.

[Boreal]

I wonder what our national R&D levels are as a proportion of GNP (or any other measure) relative to other nations. If I was to speculate, I would guess they are tragically lower than perhaps every other major Western nation. For such a wealthy country, and as important as some of these jobs are, we resemble a 3rd world economy. On one hand, I'm glad the jobs are there currently, and of course hope they continue, but I am so angry at how little we invest, or even talk about the necessity of R&D. We shouldn't be wasting money on neutral carbon taxes or any other measure - cap and trade, whatever. We are going to bleed ourselves as our competition develops the means of the future, of which we will have to buy the technology from them at a premium. I get so aggrevated thinking about this. Where is our ingenuity. Has our get up and go, got up and left?

[Greco Roman]

Canada is an high-tech country where the fastest growing jobs are in oil sands cokers and ovens, coal mines, and all these cool sectors.
In Canada, high-tech, futurist industry is the fastest growing sector.

These are currently the fastest growing jobs in Canada:
Coal miner
Oil Sand Oven operator
Oil Sand 'Upgrader' operator
Oil Sand 'HydroCracker' operator
Oil Sand Trucker
Potash miner


Way to go Canada :tup:

And when the bubble burst, all these kids from the atlantic will wonder why they never got a degree.

It's not just Atlantic Canada. Plenty of teenagers right here in Alberta are balking at the idea of post secondary education because hell, they can just work on the rigs and make lots of money. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

I'm glad I didn't fall into that unfortunate group.

[Hillbillary]

Debt counselling would seam to be a growing field, or at least it should be.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=0dec0cdc-f8e4-4324-8c6f-0a4ce6163d4f

[dvy88]

Anything in healthcare... ESPECIALLY nursing.

[francely57]

Oil $peculators?

[Dmajackson]

It's not just Atlantic Canada. Plenty of teenagers right here in Alberta are balking at the idea of post secondary education because hell, they can just work on the rigs and make lots of money. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

I'm glad I didn't fall into that unfortunate group.

Thank you for defending us. Anyways Atlantic Canada is beginning to pull out of Alberta. All four provinces are posting POSITIVE NET GAINS in inter-provincial immigration meaning some are coming home. And by the way Halifax has one of, if not, the highest percentage of workers with a post-secondary education in Canada.

[matt602]

Anything in healthcare... ESPECIALLY nursing.

This was going to be my answer. This is happening especially in Hamilton where the economy is turning away from heavy traditional industry (steel) to the education and health care sector.

[flar]

Telemarketing, over the phone technical support, phone survey interviewers and other high tech telecommunications jobs.

[bigcanuck]

Telemarketing, over the phone technical support, phone survey interviewers and other high tech telecommunications jobs.

Untiil the Do Not Call registry comes into effect in the fall...

[A4Regina]

Construction workers?

[flar]

I was joking, those aren't high tech telecommunications jobs, but low wage crap jobs people are forced to work in because good union jobs are being shipped overseas. They'll still be around even after the do not call thing, most of them are call centres that have contracts with all kinds of companies to offer telephone support for various products. Call centres seem to pop up in every town or city that has lost industry.

[Only The Lonely..]

I was joking, those aren't high tech telecommunications jobs, but low wage crap jobs people are forced to work in because good union jobs are being shipped overseas. They'll still be around even after the do not call thing, most of them are call centres that have contracts with all kinds of companies to offer telephone support for various products. Call centres seem to pop up in every town or city that has lost industry.

Having worked as a phoner for the better part of this decade I can honestly say that call centres are the sweatshops of the 21st century.

What other environment can even be held comparable? You dial non-stop without break, doing a mindlessly repetitive task, and then to top it all off you're always under the constant survelance of supervisors for 'quality assurance'.

[graupner]

Like it or not, Canada is mostly a country of cheap labor. All our growing sectors are unqualified, 'dirty' jobs.
I believe half of the 50,000 new immigrants in Montreal each year end up in a fraudulent telemarketing center, and the other half end up taxi drivers...

[Surrealplaces]

I'm surprised health care related jobs aren't on the list.

[O-Town Hockey]

I just finished medical school and, believe me, physicians are in high demand and can pretty much decide where, when, and how they would like to work.

[Rusty van Reddick]

I just finished medical school and, believe me, physicians are in high demand and can pretty much decide where, when, and how they would like to work.

This is absolutely true, but when med schools turn away the vast majority of qualified candidates, one must look for other work in the healthcare sector.

Huge congrats, though! Please don't leave primary care and set up an esthetics clinic.

[e909]

Any engineering field

[The Jabroni]

Any engineering field

Yes!! In fact, Technicians and Technologists in the Engineering field are in huge demand at the moment.

[Mister F]

For such a wealthy country, and as important as some of these jobs are, we resemble a 3rd world economy.
Like it or not, Canada is mostly a country of cheap labor. All our growing sectors are unqualified, 'dirty' jobs.
While our economy has its issues, you guys couldn't be more wrong. From Wikipedia:

"(Natural resources) are increasingly becoming less important to the overall economy. Only some 4% of Canadians are employed in these fields, and they account for less than 6% of GDP."

...

"The second largest portion of the service sector is the business services, employing only a slightly smaller percentage of the population. This includes the financial services, real estate, and communications industries. This portion of the economy has been rapidly growing in recent years. It is largely concentrated in the major urban centres, especially Toronto and Calgary (see Banking in Canada).

The education and health sectors are two of Canada's largest, but both are largely under the purview of the government. The health care industry has been rapidly growing, and is the third largest in Canada. Its rapid growth has led to problems for governments who must find money to fund it."

Even better, the CIA World Factbook:

"As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban."

[northwest2k]

Some great info in here. Thanks guys

I was hoping for a list though. Of the fastest growing jobs in canada. Preferably a recent list

[CMD UW]

While our economy has its issues, you guys couldn't be more wrong. From Wikipedia:

"(Natural resources) are increasingly becoming less important to the overall economy. Only some 4% of Canadians are employed in these fields, and they account for less than 6% of GDP."

...

"The second largest portion of the service sector is the business services, employing only a slightly smaller percentage of the population. This includes the financial services, real estate, and communications industries. This portion of the economy has been rapidly growing in recent years. It is largely concentrated in the major urban centres, especially Toronto and Calgary (see Banking in Canada).

The education and health sectors are two of Canada's largest, but both are largely under the purview of the government. The health care industry has been rapidly growing, and is the third largest in Canada. Its rapid growth has led to problems for governments who must find money to fund it."

Even better, the CIA World Factbook:

"As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban."
Oh why must you speak the truth. Take it all in kids.

[graupner]

While our economy has its issues, you guys couldn't be more wrong. From Wikipedia:

"(Natural resources) are increasingly becoming less important to the overall economy. Only some 4% of Canadians are employed in these fields, and they account for less than 6% of GDP."

...

"The second largest portion of the service sector is the business services, employing only a slightly smaller percentage of the population. This includes the financial services, real estate, and communications industries. This portion of the economy has been rapidly growing in recent years. It is largely concentrated in the major urban centres, especially Toronto and Calgary (see Banking in Canada).

The education and health sectors are two of Canada's largest, but both are largely under the purview of the government. The health care industry has been rapidly growing, and is the third largest in Canada. Its rapid growth has led to problems for governments who must find money to fund it."

Even better, the CIA World Factbook:

"As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban."

I never knew arrogance and ignorance meant the same thing.

This thread asked ' what are the fastest growing jobs in Canada ? '

You didn't answer that question at all.

Manufacturing, for instance, is one of the main employer in Canada .
Is it GROWING ?
No.


Are financial services GROWING ?
According to BMO and TD who just laid off some 500 workers in the past month, it is not.


Growing sectors are those intensively looking for new employees.

These sectors are : Energy and materials.
Nothing else to add.



Also, your quoted stats from Wiki are wrong.
According to the Canadian government, in 2006, Natural ressources made up 13% of our GDP and 26.5 % of the total investments in the country.

I believe now in early 2008, it is approaching 20 % of our GDP with the Potash, coal, oil and uranium boom.

http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/stat/index-eng.php

Please be careful before quoting stuff from Wiki. Only misinformed people quote these blindly.

Please save us from your ignorant ( and it's true, arrogant ) comments in the future.

[northwest2k]

I can't believe no one has a list of the fastest growing jobs in canada. I can find extensive lists of all the fastest growing jobs in the US. But when I google it for Canada I get nothing. Maybe our fastest growing jobs aren't worth mentioning?? :shrug: :(

[caltrane74]

We don't have enough workers in the construction industry in the GTA right now... I don't know if that would qualify as a growing industry, but the fact that even with all the incentives being offered, they still can't get enough workers says something about the general state of the economy for those in good condition with some education behind them.

[Mister F]

I never knew arrogance and ignorance meant the same thing.

This thread asked ' what are the fastest growing jobs in Canada ? '

You didn't answer that question at all.
I wasn't replying to the thread, I was replying to two individual posts. Hence the quotations. Even in the natural resources industries, not all the jobs are "unqualified" and "dirty", whatever those mean. Your statement that "Canada is mostly a country of cheap labor [sic]" is absolutely false.

Manufacturing, for instance, is one of the main employer in Canada .
Is it GROWING ?
No.


Are financial services GROWING ?
According to BMO and TD who just laid off some 500 workers in the past month, it is not.


Growing sectors are those intensively looking for new employees.

These sectors are : Energy and materials.
Nothing else to add.
The fact that a couple banks laid off a few hundred workers doesn't show that the sector is shrinking. Here's a table from Statistics Canada (http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-010-XIB/00608/tables_html/tab_04_en.htm) that shows that the finance, insurance, and real estate sector grew by 4.2% between 2006 and 2007, and by 3.3% between March 2008 and March 2007. The health and social sector grew by 2.6% and 2.3% in the same periods. And if you want an answer to the original post, the biomedical sector in Toronto is one of the fastest growing sectors in the country:

Toronto gets lead role in huge cancer project
April 30, 2008

Megan Ogilvie
HEALTH REPORTER

More than any other time in this city’s history, world-class scientists are flocking to our labs en masse with the hope of cracking medical mysteries.

Yesterday, Ontario researchers announced they will take a lead role with the International Cancer Genome Consortium, one of the largest global research efforts since the Human Genome Project. Within 10 years, the consortium plans to map the genetic mutations that drive 50 of the most common cancers.
Delving into cancer genomes will help scientists understand the complex biological mechanisms that cause cancers to grow and spread

Experts say it will likely lead to new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent the disease.

And just last week, a Toronto-led team of stem cell scientists reported a critical breakthrough towards one day using stem cells to repair damaged heart tissue.
Many of the city’s top scientists, from oncologists to statisticians, stem cell whizzes to genome experts, have been recruited to Toronto within the last two years. They have come from big city hospitals, Ivy League institutions and international research hubs.

And they say Toronto has become a magnet for the best because of new government money earmarked for innovation, a collegial atmosphere among colleagues, and a critical mass of scientists that lures others to tricked-out labs stacked along University Ave.

“There are, I think, somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 researchers in the biomedical field here,” said Dr. John McPherson, director of the cancer genome program at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and himself a new recruit. “There are 5,000 labs within a 20-minute walk of OICR. . . . There are some other places like this in the world, but they are very few.”


McPherson, who landed in Toronto in July from Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, will lead the province’s plan to map the genetic mutations involved in pancreatic cancer. While another recruit, Dr. Lincoln Stein, a world leader in genome informatics, will lead from Toronto the consortium’s data coordination centre — predicted to be the largest health informatics database in the world.

"There is a real collaborative spirit here that I haven’t seen in other places,” said McPherson about Toronto’s research community. “It’s this collaboration that really drives research these days.”

The scientists involved with the International Cancer Genome Consortium
say a combined global assault on cancer is the best way to halt the world’s leading killer. Last year, more than 7.5 million people worldwide died of the disease and more than 12 million new cases were diagnosed.

Cataloguing the genetic mutations involved in 50 types of cancer is too large a project to be undertaken by one country alone, said Dr. Tom Hudson, president and scientific director of OICR and an executive member of the consortium’s interim executive committee.

The 10-year project will generate 25,000 times more data than the Human Genome Project, said Hudson, who was involved in leading that landmark project.

Not only will the consortium boost understanding of how different cancers grow, Hudson said it may also help pinpoint environmental factors, including viruses, that contribute to cancers.

Research organizations that join the consortium sign on to study one specific type of cancer and must contribute at least $20 million to sequence 500 unique samples. Members must also agree to rapidly release data to the public and not make intellectual property claims on their findings.
Ten countries have already enlisted, including China, France, Japan, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Hudson expects others to join soon.

Researchers from India which has higher rates of oral cancers, will tackle that particular cancer type. The U.S. has agreed to look at lung cancer, among others.

Hudson said Ontario researchers wanted to tackle the “very tough” pancreatic cancer. “It has improved the least in its survival rates in the last 20 years and the mortality rate is very high, close to 98 per cent.”
McPherson, who will head up the project, said sequencing pancreatic cancer will uncover the early stages of the disease.

And, he added, it may also reveal why pancreatic cancer cells are resistant to chemotherapy.

“The DNA in all tumours is different than the DNA of the normal tissue next to it,” he said. “We’re trying to catalogue all of those variants to see what is different about the tissue. From that we can hopefully determine what is the mechanism that causes the cancer.”

In 2005, the Ontario government launched OICR with a five-year, $347-million budget to speed up cancer research from the lab to bedside. And recently the institute pledged $30 millio n to help build the cancer genomics atlas.

Speaking at MaRS yesterday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty committed $10 million over the next decade to the consortium.

“Competition was fierce,” said McGuinty, noting Ontario was the only “sub-national” jurisdiction competing to work on the massive undertaking.

Toronto is now North America’s fourth-largest biomedical research centre and the sector is growing by 18 per cent each year.

Today’s announcement means Ontario will remain at the forefront of cancer research and that’s good news for families. One in three Ontarians are now being diagnosed with cancer. One in four Ontarians are dying of cancer,” he said.

Some of the $10 million will go towards storing and organizing the massive amounts of data generated by the consortium.

“We need one large data set that researchers can mine for relationships among many distinct types of cancers, rather than a hundred small, unconnected databases that disguise the commonality among the information,” Stein said.

“It is very powerful to put the information together in an integrated way because you can start to see relationships between cancers.”

With files from Robert Benzie

http://healthzone.ca/health/article/419916



Also, your quoted stats from Wiki are wrong.
According to the Canadian government, in 2006, Natural ressources made up 13% of our GDP and 26.5 % of the total investments in the country.

I believe now in early 2008, it is approaching 20 % of our GDP with the Potash, coal, oil and uranium boom.

http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/stat/index-eng.php

Please be careful before quoting stuff from Wiki. Only misinformed people quote these blindly.
That 13% figure includes manufacturing that's related to natural resources, so whether those industries should be included is debatable. The Statscan table (http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-010-XIB/00608/tables_html/tab_04_en.htm) paints a more detailed picture.

Please save us from your ignorant ( and it's true, arrogant ) comments in the future.
Likewise.

[Kwik-E-Mart]

Here's an easy one: grow-op operator/owner/manager/whatever you call it

If Grand Theft Auto IV is not realistic enough, this is the dream job for you!

[Strangelove]

It's not just Atlantic Canada. Plenty of teenagers right here in Alberta are balking at the idea of post secondary education because hell, they can just work on the rigs and make lots of money. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

I'm glad I didn't fall into that unfortunate group.

Going to work on the rigs at 18 was probably the best decision I ever made. Yeah it sucked being stuck in buttfuck Alberta for weeks at a time and the work could be tedious or physically exhausting at times, but I also learned a hell of a lot and really grew as a person.
When I retured to university a year later I was more concentrated, driven and ready to truly focus on my education. Finances have never been a concern like many of my classmates either.

That being said, most kids don't think that way. Sure they bring in the big cheque, but then they go blow it on dumb shit like new trucks, ski-doos, etc. (all the usual redneck toys) or worse... booze and drugs.

As for the only 4% Canadians employed in Natural Resources.... Those figures are definitely true, but don't be fooled into thinking that Canada's economy (especially the west) is still not very dependent on natural resources. That little 4% only takes into account primary industry ie. digging, chopping, mining and harvesting. Believe me though, the downstream sector and all of it's various spin-offs are an absolutely huge part of the Alberta (and by extension Canadian) economy.
If oil+gas exploration and drilling (or bitumen mining) decreases, it negatively affects the entire refining and petro-chemical fields. It also means less work for the trades, and for the construction industry as a whole. Proffessionals such as engineers and architects are hurt, as is the real-estate market and the financial sector. With less disposable income, the tourism and service insustries suffer as well.
Not only that, but less oil revenues equals less money in the province's coffers, which means everything from healthcare to education (not to mention research grants and government support for arts and culture) suffers big-time.

Alberta finds itself a very precarious position. We've seen the destructive power of resource driven recessions before....

[northwest2k]

What about the IT sector?? Or software developer?? Database administrator?? Are tech jobs on the up and up in Canada?

[yorktonite]

What about the IT sector?? Or software developer?? Database administrator?? Are tech jobs on the up and up in Canada?

Absolutely! If you look at the number of IT graduates they're not even close to the quoted figure.

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=592a6179-a04e-4999-a777-649ad4a385ec

The stakes are high. A recent Conference Board of Canada study predicted that the country would need to fill 90,000 information technology jobs within the next three to five years. It suggested these unfilled jobs and resulting productivity losses would cost the Canadian economy more than $10 billion a year.

[northwest2k]

Absolutely! If you look at the number of IT graduates they're not even close to the quoted figure.

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=592a6179-a04e-4999-a777-649ad4a385ec

I'm going through the list of tech programs offered at BCIT and there are a ton

http://www.bcit.ca/path/computing/programs/

Kind of overwhelming. What do you suggest as a good one to get into?

[LeftCoaster]

You're going to BCIT now? I thought you were happily employed at the City of Richmond?

...Or did the janitorial service have a round of layoffs?

[northwest2k]

You're going to BCIT now? I thought you were happily employed at the City of Richmond?

...Or did the janitorial service have a round of layoffs?

Haha thats funny. And what may I ask do you do for a living?