Labour Market Information
Understanding the Canadian labour market is important for achieving success with your career. Finding out information about teaching jobs and salaries, profiles of cities and communities, future trends and conditions, statistics, and other indicators that can affect your job search over the short and long term is a key step to finding successful employment.
Labour market information includes:
- what occupations and skills employers are looking for
- who are some of the potential employers and where they are located
- employment conditions
- education and training requirements for jobs
- barriers to employment
- occupational forecasts
Understanding labour market information will help you to identify any barriers that might exist as you search for work in Canada. For example, if you have professional qualifications and work experience outside of Canada, knowing how those are valued in Canada is very important. The following links provide you with more resources about labour market information:
The following link provides you with more resources about labour market information:
Useful links
- Education Canada
- Workopolis
- Jobs in Education
- Ontario Job Futures - a Canadian government website containing labour market information for a variety of occupations.
- Ontario Workplace Gateway - developed by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, the Ontario Workplace Gateway provides employers, workers and others with one-stop access to information and services on a wide variety of workplace-related topics.
- Employability Skills Profile - a fact sheet developed by the Conference Board of Canada. Describes critical skills that employers look for.