Where listings come from

Each month the department publishes every posting advertised on Job Bank, with the occupation, place, pay, hours and terms, but no employer name and no link. We read it on a schedule and show it as a demand-and-wage signal by occupation and province, never as a live listing, and we link to Job Bank’s own search for the postings themselves.

Each quarter the department publishes the employers that received a positive labour market impact assessment, by occupation and location, as open data. We show it as a signal (employers approved to hire foreign workers in an occupation and province in a recent quarter), never as a vacancy, and with the department’s own caveats: the list excludes employers named after a person, and an approval is not a work permit or a hire.

Job Bank offers job boards a feed of employer postings under conditions, including free access for job seekers and a link back to each posting. Global Compass will show live Job Bank postings only through that feed, under those conditions.

IRCC publishes the designated learning institutions, the institutions whose programs can lead to a post-graduation work permit, and the fields of study that qualify. We show these beside every program, with a link to IRCC’s page and the date we checked it. Our source monitor already watches both pages for changes.

Organizations enter their own roles, programs and businesses on Global Compass, say what they offer, and keep them current. Listings are labelled as registered, and verified only after the checks described on each one.

A small number of listings our team enters from a source that permits it, each with the source, the permission and the date it was checked, so you can see exactly where it came from.