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"For users who are just browsing, there are also links on each page to IRe's main activities: research, product evaluations, codes and publi-cations," says Culhane. Other links include a "Join us" page detailing career and business opportunities, and a list of related sites.
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the endof the year:'
Three months ag<
Canada's projected ne employment ontlook of 31 per cent was the highes recorded among 18 coootri" that Manpower surveys.
"Employment estimate across all four Canadial regions are relatively consis tent with the overall nation. outlook," Procher said.
"Atlantic Canada lead with a net employment out look of 12 per cent, ahead0
western Canada at 10 pel cent with Ontario and Que· bec both at eight per cent.
Job seekers in retail and wholesale trades and educa-. tion can expect the best prospects in the fourth
quar-ter,particularly in education which has been on a steady ron for five years.
A more restrictive hiring enVironment is expected in
the.services. finance. insur-ance and real estate and mannfactnring sectors.
Manpower Inc. is a world leader in the staffing industry, providing work-force management services and solutions to customers from 4,000 offices in 63 countries. "
by GrantCameroo' . Canada's construction
induslIy will follow its
tradi-tional pattern of shedding workers inthefourthquarter
of the year, according to
a
new employment outlook snrvey condncted by Man-power Inc.'The fourth quarter usu-ally brings a downturn in
hir-ing plans for employers in the construction sectorand
this year is no exception," the survey says.
About 21 per cent of construction employers sur-veyed by Manpower indi-cated they intendtocut staff in the fourth quarter of this year while 20 percent
indi-catedtheyplantohire.
Thatleaves the consttue-tion industry with a negative hiring outlook. Despite the projection, the yearhasbeen a good one for construction.
Manpower said hiring in the induslIyhasbeen healthy with strung employment fig-ures, especially inthesecond and
thirli
quarters.The recently released survey notedthatmost
Cana-dian employers expecttoend
·the year with cautiously opti-mistic staffing plans.
According to the 1,738 Canadian employers polled for the survey, 23 per cent intend to add staff, 15 per cent expecttoreduce staff, while 59 per cent expect no changes for the
October-December
period."For a year in
which
theCanadian economy has faced many challenges, including a rising dollar,
SARS and Mad Cow Dis-site. As Canada's largest
construction research organ-ization, IRC also acts as a gateway for Canadians to access global construction technology information.
From the IRC site it is possible, for example, to simultaneously search the
websites of members of the CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construc-tion).
Culhane says the goalis
to make the IRC site as active, relevant and useful as possible, a one-stop source of information. Ththisend, there are plans to add a searchable database of Fre-quently Asked Questions (FAQ's) addressing a host of technical issues, as well as to increase linkages and infor-mation sharing with national and international sources.
Questions or sngges-tions abont further ways to improve the site are wel-comed and can be directed to Mike Culhane at (613) 993-3774, fax (613) 952-7671, or e-mail [email protected] " based codes, by accessing
the IRC site. As well, reports of innovative products･ｶ｡ｬｵｾ
ated by IRC's national eval-uation service can be found in the Registry of Product Evaluations, available on the site is the section pertaining
to building codes. IRC pro-vides national leadershipto
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