Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Job Bank
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGO05 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Learning, Skills Development and Employment
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) delivers the National Employment Service on behalf of the Canada Employment Insurance Commission. Job Bank, a part of the Service, is a free-to-use, bilingual platform, co-delivered with provincial and territorial governments, providing a listing of job opportunities across Canada. Job seekers can use Job Bank and its various job searching tools (Job Search, Job Alerts, Job Match, Resume Builder and the Job Bank mobile app) to find suitable employment. Employers can use Job Bank to post their job vacancies and find qualified candidates. Job Bank supports the delivery of other ESDC employment programs and works with private job boards to increase the diversity of jobs that it can offer.
The National Employment Service also produces a wide range of labour market information (LMI) products (including wage and outlook reports, occupational and sectoral profiles, news, and economic reports) in collaboration with other orders of government and industry experts.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job Bank | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $54M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Indicators dropped: Number of employers who posted a job on Job Bank; Number of job postings disseminated through Job Bank and related tools; Number of job search service subscribers who have used Job Match and/or Job Alerts; Number of job search service subscribers who have used Job Match and/or Job Alerts; Number of wages and employment outlooks updated on a yearly basis for all economic regions, provinces/territories and nationally; Number of wages and employment outlooks updated on a yearly basis for all economic regions, provinces/territories and nationally; Number of website visits | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of people who report finding a job as a result of Job Alerts | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Indicators added: Percentage of registered employers reporting having hired workers using Job Bank | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of employers who filled at least one vacancy via Job Bank. | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 45% | 2019 | 35% Improvements to the design of the Employer Exit Survey led to greater accuracy in results measurement and the need to review targets in the future. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 40% | 2020 | 37% The target was not met. The current result will be used to set a new target in future years. | Not met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 35% | 2021 | 41% The target was achieved during the fiscal year 2020-2021. Note: 47% of employers reported having filled at least one vacancy in a voluntary employer closeout survey. Of these, 41% attributed filling their job vacancy to Job Bank. | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 35% | 2022 | 44% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 35% | 2023 | 43% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 35% | 2024 | 42% Of the 6,000 employers who reported having filled vacancy in FY 23-24, 2,500 were hired via Job Bank. | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 35% | 2025 | 45% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 19% | 2019 | 9% Improvements to the design of the Job Alerts Survey led to greater accuracy in results measurement and the need to review targets in the future. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 24% | 2020 | — Changes in data collection resulted in the Department being unable to accurately report on this indicator. A new indicator will be developed for future years. | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 55,000 | 2019 | 65,000 | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 1,250,000 | 2019 | 1,254,000 | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 880,000 | 2019 | 1,252,000 | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 250,000 | 2019 | 246,000 A variance of under 2% is considered immaterial, given the availability and quality of data, which vary from year to year. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 16,000 | 2019 | 15,900 A variance of under 1% is considered immaterial, given the availability and quality of data, which vary from year to year. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 16,500 | 2019 | 18,800 | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 70,000,000 | 2019 | 42,000,000 Some of the factors that contributed to a decrease in traffic to the Job Bank website include: 1. Entry of new online job posting services and greater overall competition in the job board market; and 2. Job searches on the newly launched Job Bank mobile app are not counted as website visits. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 45% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $4.7M | $7.7M |
| 2019-20 | $6M | $7.4M |
| 2020-21 | $6.2M | $6.7M |
| 2021-22 | $6.4M | $7M |
| 2022-23 | $6.6M | $8M |
| 2023-24 | $6.8M | $8.8M |
| 2024-25 | $7M | $8.4M |
| 2025-26 | $7.7M | — |
| 2026-27 | $5.5M | — |
| 2027-28 | $5.5M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $5.6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 222 | 240 |
| 2019-20 | 239 | 233 |
| 2020-21 | 259 | 231 |
| 2021-22 | 259 | 263 |
| 2022-23 | 259 | 283 |
| 2023-24 | 259 | 278 |
| 2024-25 | 259 | 265 |
| 2025-26 | 259 | — |
| 2026-27 | 270 | — |
| 2027-28 | 272* | — |
| 2028-29 | 272* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $4,687,802 | $4,687,802 | $4,687,802 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $5,985,067 | $4,885,067 | $4,885,067 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $6,230,507 | $6,230,507 | $6,230,507 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $6,404,455 | $6,414,122 | $6,414,122 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $6,575,487 | $6,575,487 | $6,575,487 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $6,794,883 | $6,629,883 | $6,629,883 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $7,043,729 | $6,961,977 | $6,978,855 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $7,707,475 | $7,725,513 | $7,725,513 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $5,491,693 | $5,538,459 | $5,552,336 | ||||||||
| Actual | $7,658,667 | $7,375,521 | $6,652,054 | $6,967,559 | $8,037,396 | $8,829,413 | $8,445,893 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
