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Candidate Pool Expands As Tech Talent Canada Hosts Largest Virtual Event To Date

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Yesterday Tech Talent Canada hosting our fourth virtual job fair and it was our biggest event to date with over 3,000 registered candidates. Unlike traditional in-person recruiting events, virtual job fairs allow us to capture more data points on the candidate demographics and it is always interesting to perform a post-mortem on the audience. Here […]

Tech Talent North: How Canada Holds Its Own In The Global Race For Talent

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The Innovation Economy Council has released a new report titled MAGNETIC NORTH: How Canada Holds Its Own In The Global Race For Innovation Talent. The report covers a variety of topics including the COVID talent landscape, the remote work trend, and Silicon Valley setting up shop in Canada. The COVID talent landscape The pandemic and […]

New Data Reveals Canadians Are Stressed About Work As They Head Into The Holidays

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Canada’s workforce is bracing for a tense holiday season, with fewer people planning to take time off this year and a majority reporting work or job-hunt related stress. LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence Index report – based on a survey conducted between November 2nd and 15th – sheds a light on how LinkedIn members are spending […]

Tech Talent Canada Job Fair Attendees are Educated, Experienced, & Diverse

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Unlike traditional in-person recruiting events, virtual events have no borders. This fact was proven by the numbers at Tech Talent Canada’s virtual job fair earlier this week: 1,751 candidates registered for our November 25th event with 1,170 of the job seekers located in Canada (69%) and 98 participating from the United States (6%). Outside of […]

Toronto Remains Canada’s Top Market for Tech Talent but Smaller Cities Make Gains During Pandemic

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In a year of unprecedented upheaval and transformation, CBRE’s new Scoring Canadian Tech Talent ranking shows that Canada’s top tech markets were largely unfazed by the pandemic, with Toronto once again taking the No. 1 spot followed by Ottawa, Vancouver, Waterloo Region and Montreal. These markets boast the strongest number of factors that contribute to tech sector […]

Vancouver Named Top-Growth Tech City in North America

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Vancouver has ranked first in North America for high-tech software job growth. According to the 2020 CBRE North America Tech-30 report, Vancouver leads the 30 top tech markets in the US and Canada, with a growth rate of 29.2% over the past two years. In 2018 and 2019, approximately 14,200 new tech jobs were created to […]

New Data Reveals How Far Canada’s Unemployed Are Willing To Go To Find Their Next Role

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LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence Index for Canada – based on a poll of 2,957 members between September 9 and October 19 – found that workforce confidence scores have been trending down among unemployed jobseekers in recent months. And this group has reported concerning assessments of their financial status, with 43% describing their financial status as […]

Virtual Job Fair Attendees are Educated, Experienced, and Diverse

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Unlike traditional in-person recruiting events, virtual events have no borders. This fact was proven by the numbers at Tech Talent Canada’s virtual job fair last week: 1,771 candidates registered for our October 21st event with 1,270 of the job seekers located in Canada (72%) and 93 participating from the United States (5%). Outside of Canada […]

Despite Pandemic Tech Pay Rises While Other Industries Face Freezes And Cuts

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As the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted businesses across the country, one industry was largely spared from the widespread pay cuts, hiring freezes, and decreased demand felt by the majority of the labour market: the tech sector. A recent survey by the HR Tech Group found that although COVID-19 has caused significant disruption to Canada’s economy, many […]

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