Uncertainty over why job postings declined in Sudbury and Manitoulin over last year

Aya Dufour · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 6:42 AM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago

The fig of caller occupation postings online successful immoderate parts of northeastern Ontario is shrinking, according to a section labour probe group.

In a report, Workforce Planning for Sudbury and Manitoulin notes a 13 per cent driblet successful caller occupation postings successful 2024 compared to the twelvemonth before. 

That's crossed astir sectors similar retail, lawsuit service, nursing, transport, commercialized and finance.

Executive manager Reggie Caverson says the enactment isn't definite however to explicate that trend. 

"The numbers person gone down, we don't cognize if that's due to the fact that employers person filled vacancies, oregon if they've rejigged their operations truthful they don't request arsenic galore employees," she said. 

"We bash cognize there's been a inclination toward using antithetic technologies successful the workplace. It's hard for america to cognize what's really happening." 

Caverson says the diminution doesn't needfully suggest an economical downturn. She points retired determination are inactive immoderate 2,000 caller postings each period successful the area. 

According to an leader survey precocious carried retired by the group, respective are turning distant from online platforms to find staff. 

"Employers are looking astatine antithetic ways to recruit," said Caverson. "Word of mouth, the networks that they have, household members of existent employees, they effort to prosecute that way."

One leader says online recruiting has made retention difficult

The proprietor of Nickle Landscaping, Tyler Shea, says his institution is trying to determination distant from online occupation postings. 

Since 2009, the institution has recovered astir each of its employees by advertizing openings connected the internet. It's ne'er had problems with retention until a mates of years ago.

"We typically get a 100 resumes per posting," helium said. "We bash astir 10 to 15 hires per season. We lone request astir five or six, but that's conscionable however galore we spell through." 

She says galore applicants are inexperienced and yet uninterested successful the work. He says galore of the caller recruits don't instrumentality around.

"They spot caller occupation postings online, 'I tin marque 10 cents much here' and whatever," said Shea. "It gets worse each twelvemonth it seems." 

Nickle Landscaping is present going to downsize its operations truthful it doesn't person to prosecute arsenic galore people. 

"We're astir apt going to crook down immoderate contracts," helium said. "Redirect things to a smaller standard cognition due to the fact that you can't get radical to work."