Labour Force Figures

Stephen Hill, Employment Counsellor, noted in a recent email blast that "when economists or government spokespeople or business analysts say that we have recovered almost all the jobs we lost since the start of the recession they are right; we are within 4,300 jobs of where we were in July 2008." To determine this, he compared the labour force figures from July 2008 (available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080808/t080808a-eng.htm) to those from September 2010 (available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/labour-travail/lfs-epa/t101008a4-eng.htm).

Stephen highlights the importance of these figures, all available through the official StatsCan tables, to career practitioners to inform not only the status of the economy, but also to know the number of persons who may be in need.

Blink

When gathering and analyzing information, it's important to consider the impact of your perceptions and judgements can have. In Gladwell's book Blink, readers learn how snap judgements impact conclusions.

Read more about Gladwell and Blink at http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/22/malcolm.gladwell/