Saskatchewan employers and job seekers will continue to have access to the SaskJobs.ca website, after the provincial government provided funding for the platform in its recent budget.
Dubbed as the province’s largest job-matching platform, the 2019-20 budget provided an extra $430,000 to maintain the website.
That funding also supports the National Job Bank service, which entered into a partnership with the Province of Saskatchewan in May 2018 to provide enhance features and services. This partnership improves how employers and job seekers can advertise, recruit and search for jobs in Saskatchewan.
“We heard from employers and job seekers loud and clear on the importance of keeping Saskjobs.ca as an option for our labour market,” Jeremy Harrison, minister of immigration and career training, said in news release.
“Offering this website, in addition to the enhanced services offered by the National Job Bank, is providing Saskatchewan people with the right balance in functionality and service to grow their careers and to grow our economy.”
More than 5,600 Saskatchewan job seekers have registered on the National Job Bank website, according to the SaskJobs.ca website. The benefits of registering with the national database include: thousands of job postings, employment information, career-planning tools, an online resumé builder, job-matching and job-alert services and services in both official languages.
