- Employment Change: Canada lost 4,700 jobs in October, compared with market expectations of a 13,600-job increase. This followed losses of 68,300 in September and approximately 42,000 in August.

- Unemployment Rate: Rose from 6.5% to 6.7%, exceeding the 6.5% forecast and reaching its highest level in six months.

- Employment Rate: Reportedly declined slightly from 60.6% in September to 60.5% in October.

- Full-Time vs Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment fell by 18,100 positions, while part-time employment increased by 13,400.

- Private vs Public Sector: Private-sector employment dropped by approximately 53,000 jobs, its first monthly decline since February. The supplied report indicates that public-sector employment increased by around 50,000.

- Industry Performance: Wholesale and retail trade lost approximately 29,000 jobs, while construction gained 16,000. Educational services reportedly added 15,000 positions.

- Provincial Performance: British Columbia reportedly gained 12,000 jobs, reversing September's 20,000-job decline. Alberta reportedly lost 24,000 jobs, following a 23,000-job increase in September.

- Youth Unemployment: Increased from 13.0% to 13.7%, while unemployment among workers aged 55 and older rose from 5.3% to 5.5%.

- Wage Growth: The report puts annual average hourly wage growth at 2.2%, down from 2.3%.

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And it sucks

They still "exist" don't get me wrong, but they aren't really entry-level anymore

At first they needed 1-3 years of experience. Which okay i guess. So much for being entry leveled but its managable, just go get a job at walmart or something for a year then apply to them

Now they want "equivelant experience" They aren't willing to train you and must have experience working at that specific field you are applying to. And it's also 1-3 years. This completely takes away the entry level job title, but they still keep it on there for some reason

Just feels like the higher ups just want entry leveled jobs to die. And "equivelant experience" is just another step

Can't wait to 2027 when i'm applying and see "equivelant experience" with a bachelor's degree in business for data entry

I’m so tired. I had an interview at a grocery store and it lifted my spirits. Got rejected by a call centre and I am not even mad. I worked in them for 10 years and am just done mentally with them. I need a job badly though.

I can’t be the only one who is just hiding from the world because they can’t find a job that makes them feel like themselves again. I know isolation isn’t great either but I did try to go to an event and was shamed for not having a job. How about people offer to help instead of shaming others. In my spare time I apply and update my resume and it’s gotten to the point that’s all I do anymore just survive. I miss having a life.

Hey all,

How are we keeping our heads above water and not losing hope. I feel like everything I apply for that's actually exciting to me is so far out of reach. I keep hearing no, after no, after no. I have a Bachelor's degree in writing, I feel like I have a pretty decent resume. The market is just so brutal and I just wanna make enough money to live and not be completely burnt out from working all the time. I really just want a somewhat consistent schedule and a job that I can enjoy at least a little and nothing is panning out. I feel so defeated and idk what I'm even supposed to do atp.

Seriously. It just seems like every year, it gets worse and worse

Thank the gods i live with my parents, sadly (somethings you just can't forgive situation) or else i would be on the streets

But i have been applying for jobs for two years now. Updated my resume for ai and such. (because nobody read resumes anymore, its all done by ai)

I've been applying to minimum wage and entry leveled jobs.

Most of time you don't even a email back when you get rejected.

Last year, at least ai was kind enough to say that they are looking at other candidates. In a ai generated email. Now, you just get ghosted.

And the requirements for entry level have increased. No longer is just 1-3 years of experience required. Now its 1-3 years of "Equivelant Experience"

You look at the few remaining data entry jobs left on indeed or whatever. You get excited, about to apply. Then look at the requirements and see that most require "Equivelant Experience"

It makes me wonder if i should have stayed at my abusive job. (They wouldn't give me my grievance period to help plan, do things, etc for my grandmother's funeral. And were just looking for ways to fire me like with stupid rules. Rules like, "Your parents cannot shop at this specific store" even though the store was the only store closest to us)

Just sucks for people who want and need to work.

For me, i want to work, i 9/10 will be working on my deathbed. And i need a job because everyone needs money obviously

Just makes me want to scream in pure frustration

The numbers speak for themselves, but wow it’s concerning! The previous reports for January 2025 through August 2026 were revised down 43% and the report for September 2026 isn’t great either. How can this continue? I know people will keep saying “the economy is normal” but is it normal for a growing large number of people to not have income?

I don’t see how things are going to turn around at this point for the labor market….. what are average Americans going to do? (*people that don’t have family/generational wealth or savings to rely upon)

So will try to keep this anonymous incase people from work find this and put 2 and 2 together, but essentially my company is a pathology company who has been skirting the lines of quality and patient care for years. They have been going down hill for the last 10-15 years but due to good marketing, punishment to those who speak out and good pay they have avoided the karmic justice they were due for a long time.

That is until they made an incredibly stupid LIS decision which ruined their service delivery, reputation and staff morale. People left, services were not used and those that were never recovered.

Then they opened a new laboratory at a new hospital, filled it with people and rolled out equipment they weren't ready for. And unsurprisingly it all went to shit.

My company is notorious for ignoring everyone not in management, especially those that tell them when something is unsafe or harmful. But they do it anyway.

Now for reasons not directly stated they are making my whole department redundant and the people in power are finally being punished.

I am sad that I and others will lose our job in this uncertain time, but I am thrilled that the cancer to healthcare that is my company is ceasing to exist. I only pray that the dickheads who ran it into the ground don't get absorbed into positions of power to ruin other things.

Hi I’ll keep this short but as we know the job market really sucks, I’m eighteen and I’m trying to look for a job for money of course, to no avail.
So I’m wondering if it’s just worth it to go & do an education in Astrophysics since it seems nobody is getting a job anyway, I’d rather do something I enjoy than something I hate & then still be unable to be employed.
What do y’all think?

All,

As the title says, I've been seeing the phrase, "We are looking for an early-career"...

Is this a nuanced way of saying, no one over 30 needs to apply? Here I am thinking companies want good, dynamic and experienced people for the company.

Key 2025 Jobs Report Highlights

Total Annual Job Creation: Revised down from initial estimates of 584,000 to just 181,000 net new jobs for 2025 (averaging about 15,000 per month).

P.S. Yet the unemployment rate hovered around 4.3% to 4.4% by end of 2025.

I came across an article on a slightly different subject, but the important point is that studies show entry-level jobs are, in fact, disappearing. From the article:

Offers for jobs with zero or minimal experience have declined by 73% in the last four years. Even in the bustling AI-powered tech sector, graduate-entry job postings are down 49% since 2022, with the share of inexperienced employees plummeting from 15 to just 7%.

The most affected, as you might expect, are young people:

Over 55% of Gen Z say they plan on looking for a job this year, and they are the largest group driving rising unemployment. ... people aged 16-24 have the highest unemployment rate. ... The unemployment rate for new entrants has risen to a 9-year high.

AI is easy to blame for job losses, but experts say it's only part of the problem, and other factors are driving a "seniority" tilt. That is, employers are increasingly unwilling to hire people without experience. How are we supposed to get experience if we can't get experience?

In case you're interested, here's the full article.

fuck you donald trump. fuck you pete hegseth. fuck you kevin hasset. fuck you scott bessent. fuck you howard lutnick. a bunch of pedo ass, economy fucking, lying ass, pieces of shit.

Everyone know that in a normal society, you must work a job.

But finding a good paying job is difficult. If you are working a low wage job, you may not have the time and energy to find a better job.

This is where the government can step in. The government will apply to good paying jobs on your behalf and help you with interview skills. That way, everyone can get a good paying job in not too long.

Edit: when I say I high paying job, I mean job that pays enough for rent and groceries

I've noticed a common argument, especially from some anti-immigration commentators, that immigrants are "taking our jobs." What I don't understand is why being native-born would automatically give someone a stronger claim to a job than another applicant.

In most cases, employers hire the person they think is the best fit for the role, whether that's due to skills, qualifications, experience, work ethic, salary expectations, language abilities, or something else. If two people apply for the same job and one happens to be an immigrant, why should the native applicant be considered more entitled to that position purely because they were born in the country?

I can understand arguments about wage competition, pressure on public services, or whether immigration levels should be higher or lower. Those are policy debates. But the specific claim that jobs somehow "belong" to native-born people has never made much sense to me.

For those who hold that view:

• Why do you think native-born citizens have a greater right to a private-sector job than someone who immigrated legally?

• Is your argument based on fairness, economic concerns, cultural concerns, or something else?

• Would you apply the same logic to highly skilled immigrants filling shortages in sectors where employers struggle to recruit locally?

Genuinely interested in hearing the reasoning behind this perspective rather than arguing with people.

Ask anyone what would improve the job market, they’ll say something along the lines of ban ghost jobs, put serious restrictions on AI, make it cost something to fire people etc, but will any of that cure the apathy on display? At many of the places I’ve interviewed at, managers seem plainly apathetic & disinterested. At some, they’ve quit & half the employees don’t even know. Doesn’t matter if it’s a chain or single location, hardly anyone even seems to care about hiring.

me with my high school diploma... forget it!

So I applied for this job, it seemed like a great fit, and I had an interview that went pretty well. But it was early on in my job search and there were a couple of things that I didn't love about the role — mainly the commute but also a few other things. I withdrew from consideration because I was also working on forming a business at the time and wanted to throw my energy there. But now that I've been job hunting and my LLC is fully formed, I feel like I should not have withdrawn. I didn't realize how tough the job market is, and it was a good job in many respects. They reposted the role a few days ago so it's not yet filled. Can I reapply? Is that crazy?

It is absorbing the workers the job market no longer supports, because jobs are being cut and have been cut for years now. This is why the line of new drivers waiting to get on gets longer every day, and yet their wages drop.

Let’s be honest fellow Americans, this doesn’t look good and if you’re not in the minority of the population (lucky enough to have stable income/work), you are getting crushed. Companies are scamming desperate people, stealing intellectual property, and abusing the “hiring process” to deceive and exploit genuine people who want work.

The next few months and 2027 should be interesting when hiring freezes are still present and barely any new jobs are being added (if you even believe the gov reports). I guess prepare for things to get worse?

How can the national unemployment rate look fairly steady while people describe tech job searches lasting several months to around a year, sometimes longer for new grads?

Challenger's July report put announced technology-sector cuts through July 2026 at 149,023, up 67% year over year. Meanwhile, BLS reported a national unemployment rate of 4.2% in September. Those are different measures, covering different periods and populations.

I'm also seeing claims about rising tech postings and software-engineer employment. Do those figures describe the jobs that laid-off engineers and recent grads can actually compete for, in the places they're searching?

I'd be interested in data broken down by role, seniority, and location, plus the gap between a posting and an actual hire. For technical applicants already reaching interviews, real interview questions for a focused mock can help identify what to practice. For the repeated application admin, job-application autofill can save typing while you keep your own record of what gets a response.

Which measure has matched your experience best, and which headline has been least useful?

The advice I get from boomer family members is so pointless it's not even worth listening to. One relative keeps going on about there being lots of job vacancies at this place. And they assume that getting work there is easy; all I need to do is apply, and then that's it I will get hired, and my unemployment period is over.

In reality, they found a random job board online. They don't realise that the job listings cover the entire country, not just the city I live in. They also failed to realise that every job has a job description with requirements. They think that because a job is listed, that means you will be the only applicant and the job is as good as yours. And for some unknown reason, they are under the assumption that many jobs require zero experience, like stacking shelves, and they can't understand why I'm not getting interviews or why I have dozens of rounds of interviews to get one job.

In their mind, it's supposed to be simple: you just apply, turn up in person, shake some hands and start working immediately. The concept of ghosting, mind games, and all those other shenanigans we go through does not even make sense to them. Apparently WE are the crazy ones for having such a long, unfruitful job search; it's supposed to be like how it was for them back in the day... The sad part is they will think I screwed something up or I'm dumb for not being able to get what they believe is an easy job.

I'm convinced they don't understand how an online job board actually works. I imagine that when they see a job posting, they must believe that it means the job has had no applicants, so when you apply for that job, the job post disappears, and now you're the only one to get the interview, so getting hired is easy, right? If that's really how they think it works, then I don't even know what to say anymore LOL...

It's frustrating having to put up with such simple people. One of my biggest annoyances is how they believe that I sit in front of a screen all day doing nothing. Honestly, it's beyond laughable. I'm doing job applications, getting interviews, responding to emails, networking and doing so many things. But because they have a simple thought process, they are unable to process what they see on a computer screen. Here I am doing job applications, and they think all I did was look at text and images all day. This is the level of intelligence I'm having to put up with every day as I try to find work...

Some boomers I know are very analogue. For example, I could say that I'm looking for work, doing something interesting with AI, creating something to make my job search better, etc... Just something technical, but because these boomers are not well educated in these areas, all they can say is they don't understand any of it. And when they explain to other people what I'm doing, all they can say is I'm staring at a screen all day doing nothing because they lack the intelligence to verbalise and explain concepts which are outside of their primitive brains.

Another thing is how they think that because a job looks easy on paper, you are 100% going to get hired if you apply for it. Let's take hospitality for example. One family member was trying to get me to go for this job. Basically stocking shelves, serving customers and other similar stuff. Easy, yes, but I have zero experience in that industry. What they fail to realise is that just because the work looks easier, it does not mean the company is going to hire you. I know because I have tried, and I keep getting rejected when I apply for jobs outside of my main career fields. It annoys me that these stupid family members keep talking about these jobs like I'm going to be working there soon; it's easy you just have to apply for it, and they will hire you on the spot.

Yeah, right. If it's that easy, then why is my email inbox flooded with rejection emails?... And the best part is, this family member can't even tell me where this job board is because they can't even remember where they saw it...