Thinking in Public
Is LinkedIn officially the biggest job board out there? In Canada, the traffic numbers I can find say Indeed is bigger. Ahrefs ranks Canadian jobs sites by search traffic: indeed.com gets about 6.3 million visits a month and linkedin.com about 5.4 million. Semrush counts 23.16 million visits to indeed.com in August 2026, the top site in its Canadian human resources category.
I found no public Canada-only visit count for LinkedIn that compares on the same terms, so the gap on total visits is unknown. Job Bank, the federal government board, reports 7.1 million job posting views a month, 55,000 jobs advertised each month and 371,000 registered employers.
This is the state of job hunting in Canada right now, from Statistics Canada's September labour force survey and the latest job vacancy numbers:
National rate in September 2026, up 0.1 points from August.
Employment fell in September, the second monthly drop in a row.
Unemployment rate for ages 15 to 24.
Provincial unemployment rate in September.
Job vacancies in July, a rate of 2.8%.
Unemployed people for every job vacancy in July.
That is about three people for every open job.
I run a marketing job board for Vancouver, and it pulls from LinkedIn, Indeed, Google Jobs and Job Bank Canada. I wrote about how it works and what that market looks like. The board is at /marketing-jobs-vancouver/.
What to do with this: search Indeed, LinkedIn and Job Bank every week. Use LinkedIn to find the person behind the posting and write to them.