Randstad Survey Shows IT Employments Amid Most In-Demand Careers In Canada
2018-07-23 | Abroad Pathway Immigration | Leave a Comment
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Human resources Company Randstad study shows that the most in-demand occupations in Canada in 2018 are business analysts, IT project managers and software engineers among the top 10.
Find below the list of top 10 occupations for your reference:
General labourer leads the top 10, with sales representatives and accountants rounding out the top three.
- General Labourer
- Sales representative
- Accountant
- Engineering project manager
- Business analyst
- Customer service rep
- IT project manager
- Account manager
- Software engineer
- Forklift operator
Factors such as job openings, job placements and other data from innumerable Canadian markets were composed and amassedand reviewed meticulously by Randstad Canada and business research consultants CEB/Gartner, then the above results were declared.
“Tech continues to be one of Canada’s best job sectors, rapidly adding new jobs for developers and analysts of all kinds,” the study says.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first visit to San Franciscodeclared the results in the evening and said that he will be pitching Canada as a destination for U.S. tech companies.
Trudeau and the Canadian government are working to take advantage of skilled foreign tech workers in the United States shaped by President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and trade in order to bait them north to Canada.
Developers with coding skills
Penetratingdeeper into the study shows developers “with knowledge of both front and back-end coding are intensely in demand,” especially full stack developers. Java remained the top developer skill, with SQL in second. Python and .net are also considered in-demand.
The study listed the top 8 tech-sector jobs as:
- Project manager
- Software engineer
- Web developer
- Program analyst
- Java developer
Randstad says Canada’s IT sector engaged 488,000 professionals and added 11,500 new jobs in 2017.
