Labour shortage: The 10 hardest jobs for Canadian employers to fill in 2015

One third (32%) of Canadian employers surveyed say they are encountering difficulties in hiring the workers they need due to labour shortages. according to the latest findings released by ManpowerGroup Inc. in their annual Talent Shortage report.

For this global study, Manpower surveyed 41,700 hiring managers across 42 countries in the first three months of 2015. The results indicate that the proportion of managers unable to find the talent they needed is at its highest rate since 2007, before the recession.

In Canada however, the percent reporting talent shortages is down slightly from the 2014 findings that 36% of Canadian employers were struggling to find the talent they needed to hire.

Workopolis recently surveyed over 250 decision-makers from companies across the country to learn their hiring intentions for 2015. One-third (32%) of Canadian employers told us that they plan to increase the size of their organization’s workforce in 2015. Read More…