March 2020 News & Resources

March 13, 2020

News & Resources

Stats & Studies

Image of students who are throwing their tassels cap

Payroll employment, earnings and hours, December 2019

Statistics Canada, 2020-02-27

The average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $1,042 in December, little changed from November. On a year-over-year basis, earnings grew 3.4%, the effect of an increase observed from March to October. Read more

Labour force survey, February 2020

Statistics Canada, 2020-03-06

Employment was little changed in February (+30,000 or +0.2%), and the unemployment rate increased by 0.1 percentage points to 5.6%. Read more

Woman wearing black graduation coat sits on stairs

ILO STAT: Education pays off, but you have to be patient

International Labour Organization, 2020-01

This brief provides an overview of the educational level of the workforce around the world and its impact on unemployment and job quality. Read more

Woman wearing black graduation coat sits on stairs

How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote (The Explainer)

Harvard Business Review, 2020-03-05

Coronavirus could force your team to work remotely. Here's how to do it right. See more

Occupational Highlight

Close up of an electric panel

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technician (NOC 2255)

Technical occupations in geomatics include aerial survey, remote sensing, geographic information systems, cartographic and photogrammetric technologists and technicians, who gather, analyze, interpret and use geospatial information for applications in natural resources, geology, environmental research and land use planning.

BALANCE: Labour demand and labour supply are expected to be broadly in line for this occupation group over the 2017-2026 period at the national level.

For Technical occupations in architecture, drafting, surveying, geomatics, over the period 2017-2026, new job openings (arising from expansion demand and replacement demand) are expected to total 21,600, while 20,200 new job seekers (arising from school leavers, immigration and mobility) are expected to be available to fill them. Learn more.

For a complete profile of this and other occupations, visit Career Cruising. Please first login at the top of this page Career Databases to obtain the username and password for Career Cruising.

Featured Resource

People are writing

PayScale: Salary Data & Career Resource Center (Canada)

Dive into the most extensive database of job salaries available. In addition, see detailed job descriptions and get information on job satisfaction, job demographics, common job skills and how pay varies over time and between locations. Read more

Featured Book

Cover of Career Opportunities in Science

Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job and our experience of work in general by utilizing the designer mindsets: Curiosity. Reframing. Radical collaboration. Awareness. Bias to action. Storytelling.

For more books self-improvement & work success: (available in the CaPS resource center)