Job prospects Employee Relations Officer in British Columbia

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Job opportunities in British Columbia

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be moderate for Human resources professionals (NOC 11200) in British Columbia for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a few new positions.
• A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

Some job functions for this occupation may change with continuing adoption of artificial intelligence for data analytics, natural language processing, marketing automation, virtual agents, and/or robotics process automation.

Some job functions for this occupation may change with continuing adoption of information and communication technologies, specifically cloud computing, to improve data management and business decision making.

Here are some key facts about Human resources professionals in British Columbia:

• Approximately 14,050 people work in this occupation.
• Human resources professionals mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Religious, grant-making, civic, and professional and similar organizations (NAICS 813): 11%
  • Other professional, scientific and technical services (NAICS 5414, 5416-5419): 9%
  • Provincial and territorial public administration (NAICS 912): 7%
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 6%
  • Federal government public administration (NAICS 911): 6%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 91% compared to 78% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 9% compared to 22% for all occupations
• 79% of human resources professionals work all year, while 21% work only part of the year, compared to 61% and 39% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 47 weeks compared to 42 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 26% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 74% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 8% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 12% compared to 28% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 5% compared to 13% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 18% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 44% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 20% compared to 12% for all occupations

Breakdown by region

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Source Labour Market Information | Prospects Methodology

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