Statistics Canada: Summer Jobs

summer jobs: But with fewer opportunities opening up, fewer hours in part-time work and increased competition for many of those spots, some people may wonder whether there are summer jobs out there for students or young people in general, according to The Chronicle Herald. Statistics Canada figures for May when university students start looking for summer work or their first career showed the youth employment rate was at 17.9 per cent, down from 20.6 per cent in April and only slightly higher than it was the previous May and Its summer, when many a young students fancy turns to jobs. On Thursday, there were only 20 listings for jobs across the province on the federal governments student job bank website, and only four of those were posted in July. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.