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October 04, 2022 - 11:35 AM
Accommodation and food services lead the way with the highest ratio of job shortages in Canada. And things got worse nationwide during the first half of the year including the Thompson-Okanagan region.
At the end of June 2019, there were 12,670 unfilled jobs in the Thompson-Okanagan region. That grew to 18,335 last year and 22,800 by the end of June this year, according to Statistics Canada data.
That mimics what’s happening in the rest of Canada where there were 581,595 unfilled jobs at the end of June 2019. That grew to 1,031,955 this year.
At the same time, there are 1,007,100 Canadians listed as unemployed.
In B.C. it went from 108,115 job vacancies in 2019 to 169,280 this year with 136,800 British Columbians unemployed.
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A report by the Information and Communications Technology Council breaks the job shortages down by occupation for the country as a whole, comparing the past year (end of June 2021 through to June 30, 2022) with the pre-pandemic average from 2015 to 2019.
It found the vacancy rate for accommodation and food services jobs more than doubled to 10.65% from 4.52%, the biggest erosion for any job classification.
While all job classifications got worse, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting fared the best, growing to 5.85% of jobs being unfilled, up only slightly from 5.31%.
Behind accommodation and food, the areas that struggled the most to fill jobs were other service industries (6.28%), business, building and other support services (6.15%) and construction (6.08%). Those that fared the best were educational services (1.53%) and public administration (2.78%).
The technology council describes itself as a “not-for-profit, national centre of expertise for strengthening Canada’s digital advantage in a global economy.”
It’s report, which focuses on jobs in Canada’s “smart economy” can be found here.
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