Labour Market Information tools: Employment and Social Development Canada’s (ESDC) Job Bank (www.jobbank.gc.ca) and Working in Canada (www.WorkinginCanada.gc.ca) Web sites help connect Canadians with available jobs. These sites will be merged into one (new Job Bank) in Winter 2014. By using Job Bank:

• Canadians looking for work can now compare how much they could earn in different parts of the country in the same job or how much they could earn with different jobs in the same location.
• Employers can advertise their job vacancies.

All Job Bank features are available for free and in both official languages (English and French). Job Bank is the Government of Canada's one-stop-shop for job and labour market information.

Job Bank includes the following features:

• - Job ads from over 130,000 Canadian employers;
• - Search features so that Canadians can look for jobs any way they want. Canadians can search by keyword, occupation, industry, location, skills and knowledge, or by field of study;
• - Wage and Job Market Demand tools;
• - A Job Market trends section, and;
• - A Job Alerts service which will send alert Canadians by email when a new job is advertised.

Results:

• In 2012, over 130,000 employers used Job Bank to post over one million jobs that are viewed by 6-8 million job seekers.
• In 2013, 75,240,564 visited Working in Canada and Job Bank to view over 1.1 million jobs. Of those visits, 91.32% were from within Canada and 8.68% international.
• 69,331,126 Job Alerts were sent to subscribers since between January 2013 and December 31, 2013.      
• As of December 31, 2013 there were 226,036 subscribers to Job Alerts.
• In April 2013, job ads from private sector job boards Monster and Workopolis were integrated into Working in Canada (new Job Bank) adding 15-20,000 new jobs. In December 2013, job ads from Canada Post were added.

Canadian Occupational Projection System:

Employment and Social Development Canada develops projections of future labour demand and labour supply by broad skill level and by occupation, using the models of the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS).

The COPS models are used to develop projections of both labour supply and labour demand, by occupational grouping, at the national level, over the medium term (10-year period).The COPS projections allow for identifying occupational groupings that may face a shortage or surplus of workers at the national level over the medium term.

Users can search for occupational summaries, more detailed data and technical documents on the results or the methodology used to do the projections.

In addition to assisting labour market and policy analysts, the COPS projections can be used in labour market information (LMI) products, such as Working in Canada, targeted at assisting Canadians in their education and career decisions.