COVID-19, scores of unemployed Canadians have started looking for jobs.What they face is very different from the pre-pandemic labour market, says Carolyn Levy of Randstad Canada.At the beginning of the year, the country’s unemployment rate was hovering around 5.5 per cent, close to a record low.
That was after the jobless rate had kept firmly under six per cent for all of 2019.“It was a job-seekers’ market for a couple of years,” Levy says.Now things have “really changed,” she adds.Unemployment stood at an all-time high of 13.7 per cent in May, according to the latest available data from Statistics Canada.