The number of job vacancies across Canada reached an all-time high in March, ending a five-month decline, Statistics Canada said Thursday.
The agency said employers were seeking to fill more than one million positions at the beginning of March, up 186,000 positions or 22.6 percent from February and 382,000 or 60.5 percent from the prior year.
The non-seasonally adjusted job vacancy rate, which measures the number of vacant positions as a proportion of all positions, was 5.9 percent in March, matching the record high in September 2021.
Vacancies increased by more than one-third in accommodation, food services and retail while there were record vacancies in health care, social assistance and construction….