Why Vicinity Jobs?
Proven Methodology
At Vicinity Jobs, we know that understanding job market trends requires a lot more than simply counting job postings and job seeker resumes. So we used the wealth of knowledge that we have accumulated over the past decade to develop a thorough methodology ensuring that our reports reflect the reality of Canada’s labour markets with an unmatched degree of accuracy.
Careful selection of data sources, strict change management and data QA procedures (to account for data anomalies and external changes), and client communication procedures, are integral parts of the reasons why Vicinity Jobs provides the most reliable insight into Canadian job market trends.
A Uniquely Canadian Perspective
Unlike other products, that were built for the US market and adapted for use in Canada, the Vicinity Jobs labour information solutions were built for Canada, to address the unique circumstances of the Canadian labour market. This matters for a number of reasons:
- Our data sources are selected to represent the Canadian market. Some of Canada’s leading sources of job postings data do not operate in the US, while job postings coming from certain major US-centric data sources may not be reliable in Canada.
- Employer databases, which provide the foundation of reporting by employer and industry, differ significantly between Canada and the US.
- In Canada, industry classification is reported using the NAICS classification system, while the US market typically uses SIC (an entirely different classification roaster).
- While occupational classifications in both countries use NOC, there are differences between the NOC schemes used in Canada and the US.
Using data sources that are representative of the Canadian market is crucial to ensuring the validity of any labour market report. Proper alignment with the Canadian classification systems makes it easy to combine Vicinity Jobs data with information coming from other Canadian data sources, including Statistics Canada.
Fully verifiable data
You don’t have to take our word for the validity of the data that we use. Our hiring demand analytics suite enables users to drill down to the level of individual job postings. So if our reports tell you that there were 5 job postings last month for industrial electricians in your town, you can actually see those 5 job postings.
In the case of labour supply reports, users can also drill down to the level of individual job seeker profiles. However, in order to protect the privacy of individual job seekers and comply with data privacy regulations, we only provide an anonymized summary of each job seeker’s profile.
Powerful, User-Friendly Analytics Tools
The Vicinity Jobs Hiring Demand and Labour Supply suites enable you to not only run on-demand standard reports and graphs and verify the numbers on them: You can customize those reports or even create your own ones. You also get access to powerful trend analysis tools, and can export data to Microsoft Excel, where you can use it to generate your own graphs and pivot tables to meet the unique needs of your organization and/or initiatives.
Flexible, Competitive Pricing
Are you on a limited budget? We give you a number of options to meet the constraints of your budget situation. For example, if you only look at the hiring demand data quarterly, you don’t need to pay for more frequent data updates.
Or maybe you don’t want to commit to an annual subscription contract quite yet? Or you only need information for a one-time project or study? No problem!
We provide options that enable you to acquire historic data in Microsoft Excel format at a low, fixed price, without subscribing to our Analytics Suite.
Oh, one more thing: We are Canadian, and our pricing is in Canadian dollars. So you don’t need to worry about the impact of changing exchange rates.
Generous Information Sharing Options
Labour market information is not very useful if you cannot share it outside your organization. If you see an anomaly or trend, how can you discuss it with your community partners if you are not allowed to show them what you are seeing? How can you use the labour market information to engage others and start a dialogue in your community, if it is provided for internal use only?
There are very few restrictions on what subscribers can do with Hiring Demand and Labour supply reports provided by Vicinity Jobs. We want you to use our data. And we know that this means that you must be able to share it.
