News Release

FREDERICTON (GNB) – The provincial government has launched the New Brunswick Occupational Profiles, a new user-friendly online labour market information tool.

“Our government has been working hard to connect people, skills and jobs,” said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Jody Carr. “The launch of this new online tool means we are able to use labour market information to better communicate with New Brunswickers on what occupations are available in the province.”  

Profiles are comprehensive and include a description of the occupation, information about the current workforce, employment prospects and hiring demand information, educational pathways to the occupation and useful contacts.

Profiles for the larger occupations in New Brunswick will contain more information as they have greater numbers of people employed in them. Profiles will include the following type of information:

●    a description of the nature of the work, employment requirements and main duties;
●    labour market characteristics and wage data;
●    forecast data on estimated employment levels and job openings;
●    data on electronic job postings for each occupation;
●    apprenticeship data for applicable occupations; and
●    information about useful contacts and training paths for each occupation.

Smaller occupations will have shorter profiles with descriptive information and useful contact and training path information.

“This tool will provide students, job seekers and employers with not only the necessary information on what occupations are available in the province but where the jobs are and which occupations are growing or projected to grow over the next few years,” said Carr.    

The provincial government also recently launched a new job board and career information website. The job board will help people find jobs, and the client-focused career information aspect will help users find the information necessary to make better-informed decisions more quickly. This site also provides information on careers, educational or skills development pathways, as well as information for employers on how to find, manage and retain employees.   

“With these new online information tools, we are fulfilling our commitment to facilitate and match available jobs with skilled labour, as outlined in our Labour Force and Skills Development Strategy,” said Carr. “We are committed to connecting our most important resource, our people, with jobs in their communities.”

LINKS:

●    Job board and career information website ( www.NBjobs.ca  )
●    Occupational profiles