Ontario Employers Who Invest in Youth May Be Eligible for a Government-Funded...
Written by Strac Ivanov, MBA, President and Co-founder of VicinityJobs.com Our community partner Sheridan College just sent us information about a great incentive that the Ontario government offers...
View ArticleEmployment Remained Steady in October but Job Quality May Have Declined
Written by Strac Ivanov, MBA, President and Co-Founder of Vicinity Jobs Inc Economically and politically, October 2013 was a tough month, mired in uncertainty. The US government was shut down for more...
View Article46,000 Jobs Lost in December: An Anomaly or the Beginning of a Trend?
written by Strac Ivanov, MBA, President of Vicinity Jobs Inc The media buzz created by Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Market was hardly comforting. The economy lost 46,000 jobs in December and...
View ArticleVicinity Jobs and Millier Dickinson Blais Partner With the District of...
BC’s Fraser Valley is an exciting place. It is growing up and going through an important demographic transformation: Not long ago, its economy was dominated by agricultural businesses. Today it is the...
View ArticleCanada’s Job Market Improved Slightly in March
Statistics Canada’s report for March 2014 is out. It registered a slight improvement in the job market situation in March, but points out that employment growth in Canada has been subdued for the last...
View Article5 Common Misconceptions about Hiring Demand Analysis from Online Job Postings
Controversy erupted this month around the quality of hiring demand data used by the Government of Canada to identify labour market trends. The data in question had been harvested from online job...
View ArticleDoes Obsession with Leadership Skills Favour Fake Leaders?
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” Laozi, Chinese Philosopher. People who are too pre-occupied with...
View ArticleDo Minimum Wage Increases Kill Jobs? Look at the Evidence and Judge for Yourself
When it comes to raising minimum wages, the argument of those opposed to the raises is most often that higher minimum wages kill jobs. The argument is straight-forward and makes sense: A higher minimum...
View ArticleEmployers: If You Want to Attract Talent, Reward Performance
Early in my career, I managed a service delivery team at a large company. My team was a mix of recent hires and some long serving employees with a well established reputation for their competence and...
View ArticleWhich are Canada’s Best Paying Professional Jobs in 2016?
I strongly believe that people looking to pursue a new career are best advised to choose one that they find interesting and stimulating. The reason is simple: In their productive years, most people...
View ArticleFree Online Research Service Brings Big Data Insight to Canadians Looking for...
We just announced the launch today of Worxica (www.worxica.com) – Canada’s first free, publicly available curated archive of historic job vacancies. Worxica is a labour market information research tool...
View ArticleOntario Lost 80,000 Jobs in August. Should You Worry?
Probably not (yet)… but it depends on what you do for living and where you live. Something unusual happened with Ontario’s labour market in August. According to Statistics Canada, 80,000 jobs...
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