Best and worst places to find a job in Canada
Adzuna, a U.K.-based job-search engine, has recently expanded to help Canadians find work, too.
After "some serious number crunching" — Adzuna compared their data from 36 Canadian job websites with the latest Employment Insurance and unemployment statistics — the site determined the 45 best and worst places to find a job in Canada. http://www.adzuna.ca/blog/ |
Local media reported on the study's finding that K-C-W was the second most competitive place in the country for job-seekers. Seems to reflect a mismatch between the pool of available workers and the specialized jobs available in the high tech sector.
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So they didn't bother to actually list the places?
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London Ontario would rank amongst the worst. Things are going from bad to worse out here in the deforested city.
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Calgary ranks relatively poorly in these sort of things, because a ton of people apply for each job available. But each job seeker is applying for 20 jobs. So even at a 1:1 job:candidate ratio, you get a MASSIVE 20:1 seekers-per-vacancy rate (all numbers made up to get a general sense). Employers here get a shit-ton of resumes for everything but actually have a hard time finding people in the end - because most of their candidates have taken another job by the time the interview rolls around. It's pretty bizarre in the patch. Mobility here is absolutely insane. 5 years is considered a long-term employment situation. |
I've found a lot of post-recession grads like myself have not found stable employment anywhere in this country. Most of the people I went to college with, either here in Calgary or in Nova Scotia, have ended up with having to deal with a reality of temp jobs. Get hired by a company to do an 8 month contract in Fredericton, then sit around unemployed for a while until the next opportunity rolls around, and then do six or seven months in Fort St. John, move closer to home while sitting around unemployed again, and then it's back across the country on a four month job in Fort Mac.
Sure, there's a few people that nail down regular jobs, and I've managed to be one of them, but it really feels like we are the exception. |
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Here in Edmonton I have never worked at the same job for longer than 3 years - a better opportunity always seems to pop up somewhere.
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In St. John's, I am clinging to the job I brought home with me for dear life. I was working in Winnipeg and, instead of applying for a transfer to the Calgary, Toronto, or Montreal offices, I applied to become a Virtual Employee (meaning I work from home) in St. John's.
A comparable job to the one I have simply doesn't exist here. There are similar jobs, that pay less than half as much and are far more administrative than creative - but that's it. If I am laid off, I will have to move back to the mainland to start over and try to find a company that will allow me to work from St. John's... or I have to take a local job with substantial cuts to my current pay and responsibilities. I don't want to go from where I am to being some Communications Officer in some provincial government department for $27,000/year. I can't do it. |
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The O&G biggies are hiring full-time, permanent people by the hundreds this summer. Husky alone is bringing in something like several dozen per week at times from what I've heard. Granted that's just the patch, but in Calgary that's the big employer. To be fair what you describe is kinda normal. The years when the majority of new grads all get hired very quickly into decent jobs.. are rare. But yeah, things have been a tad on the crappy side since 2008 or so. We got very spoiled leading up to the recession. |
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I made significantly more than $27k a year with the Ontario government when I started as an intern (although it was more of an internship in name only). As a starting policy advisor it's well over twice as much. Out of curiosity I just looked through the internal postings and the lowest paid job I could find was at just over $700 a week, or $37k a year. This was as a receptionist. There may be some more menial jobs paying less, but these are increasingly outsourced to the private sector.
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I've pretty much come to terms that for many sectors going from contract to contract until one of them can afford to make your position permanent is the way it works now. I'm hoping my current position will become permanent after my contract is up and there seems to be a decent chance of that. As for the job market in Toronto there are huge numbers of postings, but each one gets huge numbers of applicants. Hence the experience making all the difference. It's not Calgary, but the population growth coupled with a relatively stable (albeit high) unemployment rate means the jobs must be coming from somewhere. |
For me, it took moving to Kingston (current unemployment rate of 6.0%, tied for the lowest in Ontario) to find permanent stable employment. I got hired right out of college when I still lived in London, and due to corporate restructuring I was without a job after less than three months - not even long enough for EI. I got screwed over there, found out I was without a job through Facebook. I worked abroad for awhile but upon returning to Canada, I applied to jobs across Ontario and some other parts of Canada - some job postings, a lot of cold-calling. The only interview I got in London was a sales position at a car dealership. The good, professional-level jobs I got interviews for were all in Eastern Ontario.
I likely could've gotten a job in Toronto had I tried, but working my way down the alphabetical list of cities, I didn't get to 'T' before I got a job offer that I liked. |
Had to leave St. John's to find a job in my field. Unless you're in the oil and gas industry (engineer, executive, etc), construction, or public service (which is being cut at the moment) jobs are rare.
I moved to Charlottetown, where jobs are rare, but there's a surprisingly strong bioscience sector. I hope in the next few years St. John's science and technology sector will continue to grow (I know Maxaam Analytics just opened a lab, hope it's the beginning of a positive trend). |
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in the provincial government with 27k? on a student salary maybe but the very low jobs that people say "well you can work up from it at least" get payed at least 18.50 and hour. I know this because I was looking when I was working as a student at the prov gov. |
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