The Good News? It was expected that there would be about 15,000 new jobs added in January 2010...and instead there was 43,000!
The Bad News? The majority of these new jobs are part-time positions, and youth employment...
And that means....?
Businesses in Canada, still stung and cautious following the recession of 2008-2009, are slowly beginning to hire…or more accurately RE-hire. The current surprising explosion of part-time roles is a boon for those excited to join or rejoin the workforce but it does not accurately reflect the state of full-time professional positions in the country.
An increase in hiring is certainly a step in the right direction!! However, these are not NEW jobs so much as...more |