Labour and Skills Demand in Alberta
Insights Using Big Data Intelligence
This report examines Alberta's labour market trends, focusing on the impact of economic downturns, the COVID-19 crisis, and digital transformation. This study uses real-time labour market data, drawn from online job postings, to offer a granular perspective on demand dynamics across various sectors and occupations. The analysis in the report identifies emerging labour shortages in Alberta due to mega-trends such as digitalisation, AI adoption, automation, and population ageing and discusses key challenges such as youth unemployment and sector-specific labour shortages. The analysis in this report provides insights for policy makers, suggesting a need to support growing sectors, enhance digital skills development, address demand for health workers, and improve youth job access.
Tracking demand in online job postings by sector of activity in Alberta
This chapter uses information contained in online job postings (OJPs) to examine Alberta’s labour demand across various sectors, comparing them to the broader Canadian market. The chapter provides an analysis of the sectors’ pre‑pandemic growth rates and sheds light on the top-growing sectors. Specifically, results delve into three sectors – mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction; transportation and warehousing, and public administration – that exhibited the highest growth rates and discusses their labour demand trends during the pandemic and post-pandemic. Additionally, the chapter explores the different career areas within these top growing sectors, offering insights into the distribution of occupational categories within each sector. By investigating these points, the chapter provides valuable information on sectoral demand, growth patterns, and occupational distributions within top-growing sectors.
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