1. Business Retention and
Expansion Tools:
Regional Labour Market Reporting

2. DISTRICT OF MISSION Population: 39,873 Approx. 75 min. to Vancouver
15 min. to U.S. border
West Coast Express
Labour Force 29,483
Labour Force within 30 mins. 312,941
65% Commute out of Mission
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3. DISTRICT OF MISSION Historical data & forecasting vs. real time data
What is driving commuter workforce?
Understand available jobs in community/region
Educational programming/applied skills training
Employment land strategy
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4. VICINITY JOBS Canadian big data analytics and Internet search company
First regional job aggregators launched in 2006
Real-time regional hiring demand reporting since 2007
Regional labour supply reporting since 2015
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5. OUR CLIENTS Provincial Ministries: Municipal Economic Developers
BC Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training
Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation / Ryerson
Municipal Economic Developers
Workforce Planning Boards
Universities and Colleges
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6. Real-time Labour Market Reporting
Concept: We monitor trends by tracking the online activity of employers and job seekers
Key Strengths:
Proven methodology, developed in partnership with EcDev professionals
Verifiable data – to the level of individual job postings / job seekers
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7. Methodology Web sites are monitored for new job postings daily.
Step 1:
Web sites are monitored for new job postings daily.
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8. Methodology
Step 2:
Data is cleaned up and transferred to data warehouse quarterly/monthly
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Reporting System Database

9. Methodology NOCs/ Job Categories
Step 3:
Job postings are deduplicated and matched to employer profiles*, job categories, sub-locations, etc.
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Locations
Reporting System Database
Employer Profiles / NAICS

10. Reporting System Database
Step 4:
Step 5:
Job postings data is reviewed and QA-ed manually.
Cleaned up hiring demand data is made available for reporting.
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Data QA Analyst
Reporting System Database
Hiring Demand Reports

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13. DISTRICT OF MISSION Reason to connect Business Walks Sharing of data
Education
Regional Workforce Development Strategy
Continued development
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14. How Do Clients Use Our Data?
To prove the availability of labour to prospective investors
To identify and engage high-growth employers
To engage partners and launch coordinated regional initiatives
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15. Some Examples from Alberta
Based on 3 months of data:
Collected from Dec 2016 to Feb 2017
56,223 New Job Postings
85,123 New Job Seeker Resumes
Not seasonally adjusted
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16. Hiring Demand vs Labour Supply by Occupational Category - Alberta
Labour Shortages
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17. Hiring Demand vs Labour Supply by Occupational Category - Alberta
Oversupply of Labour
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18. Hiring Demand vs Labour Supply by Location - Alberta
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19. Fort McMurray Top Employers and Hiring Industries
Analysis based on 1,150 Job Postings from 120+ known employers collected between Dec 2016 and Feb 2017
Postings #
% Share 1
Suncor Energy Inc.
316
27.90% 2
Alberta Health Services
106
9.40% 3
North American Construction Group Inc 91
8.00% 4
Wood Buffalo, Regional Municipality 48
4.20% 5
Syncrude Canada Ltd. 24
2.10% 6
Walmart 7
Rona Inc 21
1.90% 8
Canadian Natural Resources Limited 18
1.60% 9
Save-On-Foods 17
1.50% 10
Shoppers Drug Mart
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20. THANK YOU! Clare Seeley cseeley@mission.ca Phone: (604) 820 5375
Strac Ivanov
Toll free: 1 (800) , ext 21
Cell: (604)
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