(Montreal) The number of vacant positions continues to decrease in Quebec. It was 152,400 in the fourth quarter of 2023.
This is a drop of 56,400 compared to the corresponding quarter of 2022, the Quebec Statistics Institute said on Thursday.
Although we often hear about the food service and retail industries, the health care and social assistance sector has the highest number of job vacancies. It was 40,500 for this fourth quarter of 2023.
This is followed by the retail trade sector, with 16,100 vacancies for this quarter, accommodation and food services, with 14,500 vacancies, and then manufacturing, with 14,000 vacancies.
These vacancies are mostly full-time positions, 116,000 of them.
Nearly 69,000 of these positions required a high school diploma or less as education.