{"id":11758,"date":"2018-11-29T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:00:14","slug":"seasonal-retail-jobs-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2018\/11\/29\/seasonal-retail-jobs-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Retail: Holiday Job Postings Down This Year as the Hiring Season Starts Late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether or not Canadians have started their holiday shopping, employers are getting ready for a surge. Canadian retail sales, excluding motor vehicles and gasoline, peak every December before falling back in January. To match these spending patterns &#8212; plus the vacations people often take around the holidays &#8212; many retailers and other employers go on a seasonal hiring blitz. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We used Indeed job posting data to identify \u201choliday jobs\u201d, that is, postings with terms like \u201cChristmas\u201d, \u201cHoliday\u201d, and \u201cSeasonal\u201d in the job title. These data allow us to track how posting activity compares with years past and identify the types of employers doing the most holiday hiring. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of mid-November, holiday jobs as a share of total Canadian posting activity during the hiring season are down 16% compared with the same period last year. This decline reflects a delayed start to the hiring season. Holiday posting activity picked up in September, a month later than previous years, and the tardy jump since hasn\u2019t been enough to offset the slow start. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trend toward online shopping is likely to gradually weigh on seasonal retail hiring. Still, it\u2019s unclear how much ecommerce has influenced year-to-year changes so far. While postings for the season are down, holiday job openings are increasingly looking for full-time workers. As a tightening Canadian labour market makes it harder to fill job openings, some holiday employers could be looking to fill fewer slots and have their new hires work more hours instead.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Holiday job postings ramped up in September rather than in August as in past years<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In years past, Canadian holiday job postings on Indeed have followed a familiar pattern: they start rising in early August, accelerate through September, and peak at the start of November &#8212; usually four to five times higher as a share of total activity than at the start of July. From there, they gradually decline.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, holiday hiring has been more compressed. In 2016 and 2017, the holiday share of total Canadian posting activity nearly doubled over the six weeks leading up to September. This year though, they remained flat until the end of August. This slow start to holiday hiring hasn\u2019t been unique to Canada. Holiday job posting activity in the US <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/2018\/09\/26\/seasonal-job-postings-lagging-behind-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">also began behind the 2017 pace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Holiday-Postings-trend-EN-1024x552.png\" alt=\"Canadian holiday hiring started later than usual this year\" class=\"wp-image-11766\"\/><figcaption>Line graph titled &#8220;Canadian holiday hiring started later than usual this year.&#8221; With a vertical axis ranging from 2000 to 16,000, Indeed tracked the holiday job postings per million Canadian posts along a horizontal axis ranging from July 1 to December 30, with lines representing 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2018, holiday hiring was more compressed. Caption added post-publication.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While holiday job postings lagged initially, the slow start didn\u2019t last. Postings jumped in early September and by the end of the month were running similar to last year\u2019s strong hiring season. The holiday posting share peaked toward the end of October at a level similar to last year\u2019s and has ticked down since. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite eventually catching up to the 2017 share of daily activity, the 2018 holiday job posting share of total Canadian postings from August to mid-November is down 16% from last year. Given that holiday postings ramped up a month later than usual, activity would have had to surge well above last year\u2019s October level to match 2017\u2019s hiring season on the whole. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>The tightening Canadian labour market could be driving a shift to full-time holiday work <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One factor potentially weighing on the holiday share of Canadian posting activity is that a growing portion of openings are for full-time roles. As a result, the total number of hours employers are looking to fill is probably more similar to last year\u2019s total than the drop in the number of postings would suggest. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2016, of holiday job postings from August through mid-November that indicated full or part-time status, just 23% were for full-time work. In 2017, the full-time share jumped to 28% and this hiring season rose to 31%. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/FT-share-holiday-jobs-1024x559.png\" alt=\"Holiday job postings increasingly looking for full-time workers\" class=\"wp-image-11761\"\/><figcaption>Bar chart titled &#8220;Holiday job postings increasingly looking for full-time workers.&#8221; With a vertical axis ranging from 0% to 35%, Indeed compared the share of holiday job postings indicating full-time hours between August 1 and November 11. In 2016, the share was 23%, with the share at 28% in 2017 and 31% in 2018. Caption added post-publication. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to StatCan data, full-time workers in sales and service occupations &#8212; which most holiday-related roles fall under &#8212; typically work more than double the hours of their part-time counterparts. Rather than hire more workers, each working relatively short shifts, some employers appear to be filling fewer roles and having their employees work more hours instead. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A similar trend is evident in the latest StatCan\u2019s Job Vacancy and Wage Survey data. The share of job vacancies for sales and service occupations indicating full-time hours was 55% in the second quarter of 2018, up seven percentage points from two years earlier. With Canadian employers reporting that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofcanada.ca\/2018\/10\/business-outlook-survey-autumn-2018\/#chart6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">labour shortages are getting more severe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it\u2019s unsurprising that more of them are looking to maximize the work they can get from new hires.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Large retail companies lead the way in holiday hiring <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The majority of Canadian holiday job postings are for retail and related roles, so it\u2019s unsurprising major retailers top the list of companies with the most holiday openings. Moreover, the stores looking to do the most holiday hiring tend to specialize in categories that typically see the largest spikes in spending in December. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of the four broad retail categories that StatCan usually finds have the largest October-to-December spending jumps are represented in this year\u2019s list of the top five employers in holiday hiring: Hudson\u2019s Bay Company (general merchandise\/clothing and accessories), The Source (electronics), Indigo (books and music), and Old Navy (clothing).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Top-holiday-employers-1024x721.png\" alt=\"Major retailers lead Canadian holiday hiring\" class=\"wp-image-11762\"\/><figcaption>Table titled &#8220;Major retailers lead Canadian holiday hiring.&#8221; Indeed ranked companies by holiday job postings from August 1 to November 11, 2018. Hudson Bay Company ranked top. Caption added post-publication.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BC Liquor Stores also cracks the top five, consistent with the sales jumps at beer, wine, and liquor stores during the holiday season (the LCBO ranks 17th). Finally, the two non-retail employers making the top ten this hiring season may be looking to fill the most iconic holiday jobs: Cherry Hill Programs is a leading employer of holiday Santas across the country, while Vail Resorts operates Whistler Blackcomb ski resort.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Ecommerce is growing, but so far its drag on holiday hiring is uncertain<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ecommerce is playing an increasingly important role in the retail sector, especially around the holiday season. Over the past two years, Canadian online sales have jumped from October to December even more than activity at brick-and-mortar stores. That said, the impact of this shift online on year-to-year holiday hiring so far appears to be gradual. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The online share of Canadian November-to-December nonauto and gasoline retail sales rose from 4.7% in 2016 to 5.4% last year &#8212; which might be enough to weigh on seasonal retail hiring, but may still be too little to make a dramatic dent. In fact, the 2017 holiday posting share was actually up compared with the previous season. One factor helping maintain holiday retail employment is that many consumers still <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.adobe.com\/press-release\/experience-cloud\/adobe-forecasts-124-billion-us-online-sales-holiday-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">browse store aisles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> before pulling the trigger online. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holiday job postings as a share of activity on Indeed are down a bit this season. Nonetheless, after a slow start, they eventually tracked earlier years. Moreover, this year\u2019s dip has been partly offset by growth of full-time holiday jobs, which suggests many employers have significant hours to fill. The rise of ecommerce is likely to be a drag on traditional retail employment in the years ahead. But don\u2019t expect short lines to see Santa at the mall just yet.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><b>Methodology <\/b><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To identify holiday job postings, we tallied postings with job titles containing one of the following terms: Christmas, Xmas, Santa, elf, holiday, seasonal, advent, No\u00ebl, Llutin, f\u00eates, saisonnier, and avent. Excluded from this sum were postings with titles which also included: labourer, educator, wedding, grounds, groundsperson, farm, ouvrier, \u00e9ducateur, mariage, terrains, personne sur le terrain, ferme. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the daily frequency, holiday job postings\u2019 share of total Canadian posting activity was taken on a 7-day centered moving average basis. Postings were tallied from August 1 to November 11 when calculating posting activity for the holiday hiring season as a whole. 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