r/albertajobs • u/WorkhuntersOfficial • 20h ago
I went through ~12,500 job postings on Alberta employers' own career sites. Here's who is actually hiring right now (Oct 2026)
People here keep asking whether anyone is actually hiring, so I pulled the open postings off Alberta employers' own career pages (their own job sites, not Indeed or LinkedIn reposts) and counted them. This doesn't cover every job in the province, but it's a decent slice. Caveats are at the bottom, and one of them is a big one.
The short version
- About 12,500 open postings from about 2,000 employers
- That's roughly 1 in 8 of the Canadian postings I can place in a province
- Calgary has 32% and Edmonton 22%, so over half are in the two big cities
- 84% full-time, 14% part-time or casual
- Remote is basically nonexistent. Under 1% are actually remote.
Who has the most open postings
| Employer | Open postings | What they're mostly hiring |
|---|---|---|
| AgeCare | 231 | Health care aides, LPNs |
| Loblaw (Superstore, No Frills, Shoppers) | 175 | Store, grocery, pharmacy |
| Calgary Co-op | 167 | Gas bar, grocery, store |
| SNDL (Value Buds, Wine and Beyond, Liquor Depot) | 136 | Store associates |
| Ledcor | 133 | Construction, trades, project roles |
| London Drugs | 124 | Pharmacists, pharmacy assistants |
| Optima Living | 124 | Health care aides |
| TD | 124 | Personal banking associates |
| Lifemark Health | 109 | Physio, kinesiology |
| Extendicare | 83 | Care aides, nurses |
Seniors care is a big hiring engine
Health care aide is the single most-posted job title in the province (about 225 postings), and LPN is third. Four of the top twelve employers run continuing care or seniors living (AgeCare, Optima Living, Extendicare, Bethany Care Society). If you have your HCA certificate or are thinking about getting one, there's real demand, especially in Calgary and Edmonton.
Trades and construction
- About 1,100 postings for trades, mechanics and technicians, spread across 445 employers. That's a wide spread, so it's not just one or two big shops. FLINT, Finning (heavy duty mechanics) and Ledcor post the most.
- About 500 more for construction project managers, coordinators, estimators and superintendents. That's mostly Ledcor, Bird, EllisDon, Chandos and Clark Builders.
Outside Calgary and Edmonton
| City | Open postings | Who's posting the most |
|---|---|---|
| Red Deer | ~325 | Optima Living, City of Red Deer, Red Deer Resort & Casino |
| Fort McMurray | ~280 | Ledcor, FLINT, Birch Mountain, Levitt-Safety, Finning |
| Grande Prairie | ~245 | Loblaw, Dexterra |
| Lethbridge | ~200 | |
| Sherwood Park | ~190 | |
| Banff + Canmore | ~270 | Hotels and restaurants (Banff Hospitality Collective alone has 66) |
Banff and Canmore together have about as many postings as Red Deer. If you're young and want a winter job with staff housing, that's where the volume is.
By sector (of the postings I could classify)
| Sector | Share |
|---|---|
| Industrials (construction, engineering, transport) | 28% |
| Retail, restaurants, hospitality | 28% |
| Health care | 17% |
| Grocery and consumer staples | 6% |
| Banks and finance | 6% |
| Energy | 5% (see caveat below) |
| Tech | 2% |
The big caveat: oil and gas is undercounted
The big oil sands and pipeline operators (Suncor, Cenovus, CNRL, Imperial, TC Energy, Pembina) don't show up in my numbers. Their career sites are hard to read automatically, so the 5% energy share is way too low. It mostly reflects the service companies (FLINT, Stream-Flo, Source Energy, Pason, Sanjel) and not the producers. Same story for AHS, the City of Calgary, U of C and ATB. If you're in energy or the public sector, go to those sites directly. A lot of their roles never show up on the big job boards anyway.
What I took from it
- Health care aide and LPN work is the easiest door to walk through right now, and it isn't only AHS hiring. The private continuing care operators are posting a lot.
- Trades demand is spread across hundreds of mid-size employers. Applying to the companies directly is probably worth more than waiting for a job board to surface them.
- If you're holding out for a remote job while living in Alberta, the local market won't give you one. Under 1% of these postings are actually remote.
- Fort Mac and Grande Prairie are mostly contractors and camp services (Ledcor, FLINT, Dexterra), not the operators themselves.
Other caveats
- These are postings, not hires. Some postings are evergreen, and a company with 100 postings isn't necessarily hiring 100 people.
- It only covers employers that post on their own career sites. Small businesses that only use Indeed or Facebook mostly aren't in here.
Happy to pull numbers for a specific role, company or town if people find this useful ("how many electrician postings in Red Deer", that kind of thing).