The job vacancies rate has gone up since the first quarter of the year.
A woman is looking at a job ad in Toronto.
The photo was taken by Nathan Denette.
Canada has the highest number of job vacancies on record, with 957,500 open positions in the first quarter of 2022.
Since the first quarter of 2016 there has been an upward trend in the job vacancies rate.
The pace of growth has slowed as payroll employment recovered in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The health care and social assistance sector, which has been hardest hit by the Pandemic, has seen vacancies reach all-time highs.
There were 136,800 vacancies in the first quarter, up five per cent from the previous quarter.
Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates, registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses, and licensed practical nurses all saw their vacancies increase.
Construction, manufacturing, and retail trade all hit new highs.
The construction sector saw a 7.1 per cent jump from the fourth quarter of 2021, with employers actively seeking to fill 81,500 vacant positions in the first quarter, while the manufacturing and retail trade sectors peaked at 87,400 vacancies, up 3% from the previous quarter.
Unemployment is decreasing. The unemployment-to- job-vacancy ratio was 1.3 in the first quarter, down from 2.2 in the same quarter of 2020.
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