Many of our Canadian-based clients at Modern Hire were requesting virtual hiring tools ASAP in March, so they were able to adapt to the changes in remote work and hiring much quicker, leading to quicker time-to-hire and lower unemployment rates.
Job markets on both sides of the border are still a long way from full recovery from the effects of COVID-19, but Canada is quietly pulling ahead of the U.S. after being neck and neck in June. “This coincided with a divergence of pandemic trajectories in each country, with new cases dropping in Canada early in the month, while new cases started rising in the U.S. a few weeks later,” Brandon Bernard, economist at job search site Indeed, told Yahoo Finance Canada.