Labour Market Information
Labour market information helps you to answer questions about opportunities for work in your career area, salary ranges, finding work in a new field and whether the work you're interested in suits your skills, aptitudes, and interests.
Understanding the Canadian labour market is important for achieving success with your career. The labour market is the commercial environment where the exchange of services occurs between people who are looking for work and companies and public institutions that are seeking workers. Finding out information about jobs and salaries, industry sectors, 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 successful Canadian 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. Collecting information about general labour market conditions and the architectural area in the Canadian context can help you understand the process involved in achieving a successful career in your profession.
The following links provide you with more resources about labour market information:
- Settlement.Org's Labour Market Information section.
- How can I find information about companies in Ontario?
If you're looking for work in Ontario, you're probably looking for information about companies that are hiring. You can search for information on the Internet, in books and other print publications off the Internet, and from organizations in your community. To see some of the current employment opportunities for architects in Ontario, click on the Employment Opportunities page of the OAA Web site.
Useful links
Ontario Job Futures - a Canadian government Web site 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.
Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council - a group of employers, government representatives, and non-profit agencies in the Toronto region that is working to improve access to employment for immigrants so they are better able to use the skills, education, and experience they bring with them to Canada.
Employability Skills Profile - a fact sheet developed by the Conference Board of Canada that describes critical skills employers look for.
Career Bridge (Canadian Experience Assistance) - Career Bridge is operated by Career Edge, Canada's internship facilitation organization that works with employers, prospective interns, career centres, and community agencies to provide meaningful work experiences for more than 6,000 graduates across the spectrum of the business community in Canada.