Mining is among industries cited by Technical Service Council in a quarterly survey of job vacancies among 1,700 firms across Canada.
The survey, the Council says, represents openings in the mining, manufacturing, construction and service industries. In the last year, it says, job vacancies for engineers, accountants, scientists and other professionals increased by 54%.
Jobs zoomed 207% in Alberta (thanks largely to firming oil prices and federal and provincial government support to the oil industry). B.C. had the second largest increase, at 83%, followed by Ontario with 49%.
The number of vacancies in the Atlantic provinces and Saskatchewan was too small to be a reliable indicator, the industry-sponsored placement service says.
It notes that unemployment in western Canada has been so high for so long that many job hunters have left the area, heading principally for Ontario and Quebec. The depressed state of the resource industries has encouraged geologists, geophysicists, mining engineers and former engineering consultants to change industries or even careers.
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