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Engineers, healthcare professionals and tradespeople are the people
most in demand in Canada today, and will continue to be so until at
least 2007, according to a government report.
Job Futures, which analyzes and provides useful information about 226
occupational groups, said engineers from various disciplines -
including civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, chemical and
computer - will likely continue to do well over the next few years.
Also highly prized are dentists, dental hygienists and therapists,
paramedics, family physicians, nurses, optometrists, radiation and
other medical technologists and chiropractors.
The news is not as for people in clerical occupations, bakers,
sportsmen and women, cooks, secretaries, and those working on assembly
lines. Job Futures marked out these professions as having job
prospects.
What the report doesn't state is that a profession in demand doesn't
necessarily translate into immediate job prospects for new immigrants.
Newcomers often face licensing regulations and other roadblocks that
make the journey to high-paying jobs a long and often rough ride.
Here are the professions rated as having the best and worst (or most limited) job prospects:
BEST JOB PROSPECTS:
- Administrators - Post-Secondary Education and Vocational Training
- Aircraft Mechanics and Aircraft Inspectors
- Ambulance Attendants and Other Paramedical Occupations
- Civil Engineers
- Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical Engineers
- College and Other Vocational Instructors
- Computer Engineers
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Construction Managers
- Contractors and Supervisors, Trades and Related Workers
- Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists
- Dentists
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Electronic Service Technicians (Household and Business Equipment)
- Elemental Medical and Hospital Assistants
- Financial Managers
- Firefighters
- General Practitioners and Family Physicians
- Human Resource Managers
- Insurance, Real Estate & Financial Brokerage Managers
- Judges, Lawyers and Quebec Notaries
- Licensed Practical Nurses
- Managers in Construction and Transportation
- Managers in Health Care
- Managers in Manufacturing and Utilities
- Managers in Public Administration
- Managers in Social, Community and Correctional Services
- Mathematicians, Systems Analysts and Computer Programmers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Medical Laboratory Technologists and Pathologists' Assistants
- Medical Radiation Technologists
- Medical Technologists and Technicians (Except Dental)
- Nursing Supervisors and Registered Nurses
- Optometrists, Chiropractors and Other Health Diagnosing and Treating Professionals
- Other Engineers
- Other Technical Occupations in Health Care (Except Dental)
- Paralegal and Related Occupations
- Pharmacists
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Physical Science Professionals
- Police Officers (Except Commissioned)
- Professional Business Services to Management
- Psychologists
- Retail Trade Managers
- Sales and Service Supervisors
- Sales, Marketing and Advertising Managers
- School Principals & Administrators of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Specialist Physicians
- Specialists in Human Resources
- Supervisors, Mining, Oil and Gas
- Supervisors, Processing Occupations
- Supervisors, Railway and Motor Transportation Occupations
- Technical Occupations in Dental Health Care
- Technical Occupations in Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Technical Sales Specialists - Wholesale Trade
- University Professors
- University Professors and Assistants
LIMITED JOB PROSPECTS
- Announcers and Other Performers
- Athletes, Coaches, Referees and Related Occupations
- Bakers
- Butchers and Meat Cutters - Retail and Wholesale
- Cabinetmakers
- Carpenters
- Cashiers
- Child Care and Home Support Workers
- Cleaners
- Clerical Occupations, General Office Skills
- Contractors, Operators and Supervisors in Agriculture, Horticulture and Aquaculture
- Cooks
- Couriers, Messengers and Door-To-Door Distributors
- Electronics Assemblers, Fabricators, Inspectors and Testers
- Elementary and Secondary School Teacher Assistants
- Fishing Vessel Masters and Skippers and Fishermen/women
- Food Counter Attendants, Kitchen Helpers and Related Occupations
- General Farm Workers
- Labourers in Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
- Logging Machinery Operators
- Logging and Forestry Workers
- Longshore Workers and Material Handlers and Related Occupations
- Machine Operators and Related Workers in Fabric, Fur and Leather Products Manufacturing
- Machine Operators and Related Workers in Food, Beverage and Tobacco Processing
- Machine Operators and Related Workers in Textile Processing
- Mail and Message Distribution Occupations
- Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Assemblers
- Metal Forming, Shaping and Erecting Trades
- Metalworking Machine Operators
- Motor Vehicle Assemblers, Inspectors and Testers
- Nursery and Greenhouse Workers
- Occupations in Food and Beverage Service
- Office Equipment Operators
- Other Elemental Service Occupations
- Other Fishing and Trapping Occupations
- Other Occupations in Travel, Accommodation, Amusement and Recreation
- Other Sales and Related Occupations
- Other Transport Equipment Operators and Related Workers
- Primary Production Labourers
- Printing Machine Operators and Related Occupations
- Printing Press Operators, Commercial Divers and Other Trades and Related Occupations
- Program Leaders and Instructors in Recreation and Sport
- Property Administrators
- Public Works and Other Labourers
- Retail Salespersons and Sales Clerks
- Secretaries, Recorders and Transcriptionists
- Tailors, Dressmakers, Furriers & Milliners
- Technical Occupations in Libraries, Archives, Museums and Art Galleries
- Technical Occupations in Life Sciences
- Tour and Recreational Guides and Casino Occupations
- Trades Helpers and Labourers
- Train Crew Operating Occupations
- Upholsterers, Tailors, Shoe Repairers, Jewellers and Related Occupations
- Visiting Homemakers, Housekeepers and Related Occupations
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