Toronto/CMEDIA: Job seekers in Canada are facing an increasingly difficult market as job vacancies were the lowest in almost a decade, a new Statistics Canada report said.
Vacancies across Canada were 457,400 in August this year as against 435,500 vacancies in August 2017 and hence a rise in the unemployment rate.
The only industries that recorded an increase in job vacancies were agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting while other sectors were shown that Job vacancies were little changed.
A drop in unemployment was particularly noticeable in the Provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, while job vacancies were little changed in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Average weekly earnings bumped up three per cent to $1,312 in August, following an increase of 3.2 per cent in July. Month over month, average weekly earnings were unchanged in August.
