A Thank You to the JobAds.ca Community

Every so often it is worth stopping the sprint of shipping to look up and say thank you. This is one of those times.

A few months ago JobAds.ca was still finding its footing. Today, thanks to you, we can point to real numbers and real people using the platform every day. So before we get into any of that, we want to say it plainly:

Thank you. To the job seekers who clicked Apply. To the employers who posted roles. To the folks who signed up for an account, told a coworker, sent a link, wrote in with feedback, or just quietly kept coming back to browse. You are the reason this platform exists, and you are the reason it is growing.

What we get to celebrate together

Here is what has happened, thanks to you, in the last few months:

• 2,500 plus visitors every month browsing jobs across Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Yukon.
• Over 107,000 pages viewed by real people in the last two weeks alone. This is the number after filtering out search-engine crawlers and other bots (which more than doubled the raw hit count). Real humans, looking at real jobs.
• Nearly 100 people trusted us enough to create an account, saving searches and setting up job alerts so we can push new matches to them the moment they are posted.
• 723 times, someone clicked the Apply button on a job listing since we started tracking on May 19. To be clear: those are apply-button clicks (we track when a visitor hits Apply, not what happens after that on the employer's side). But every one of those 723 clicks was a real person taking a real next step toward a real paycheque.
• 365 different jobs have received at least one apply click from our platform. From nurses to line cooks, welders to lawyers, transport drivers to teachers.

None of those numbers happen without a community showing up. And this community absolutely has.

What you have been looking at

The 107,000 human page views break down almost exactly the way we hoped they would:

Roughly 42 percent of every human page view goes to an individual job listing. That is exactly the point of the site: get people to a real opportunity, and get out of the way. The rest of your attention goes into the tools we built to help you find those opportunities: the homepage, search, and the city and category landing pages. (Note: we excluded search-engine crawlers and other bots from these numbers, so this is a real human read of what our community actually looks at.)

You applied in every province we cover

One of the things we set out to build was a job board that reaches beyond one province. It is working. Apply clicks so far:

Saskatchewan will always be home base for us, and it shows: nearly two thirds of apply clicks go to SK roles. But the fact that a third of your activity goes elsewhere in the region says something. A person searching in Regina can just as easily apply to a role in Edmonton, and it happens every week. Every one of the smaller feeds (Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Yukon) has already had someone reach an employer through us. That matters.

You showed us who is really hiring

We knew the Saskatchewan Health Authority was posting a lot of roles. What we did not know until we looked at the apply-click data is that SHA alone received 185 of the 723 apply clicks from this community. That is roughly one in four. Nurses, continuing care assistants, medical office staff, patient support: the healthcare sector is doing serious hiring right now, and you are showing up.

A big thank you also to the other employers whose roles you have chased in real numbers:

• Ranch Ehrlo Society
• Orano Canada
• Wiebe's Steel Structures
• 888 Construction
• SaskTel
• Porteous Lodge

Every apply click on one of them is a person reaching a hiring team that needs them.

You told us where the work is

The category breakdown of your apply clicks is honestly a market snapshot that no press release could capture as well:

1. Healthcare Support: 130 apply clicks
2. Social Services: 57
3. Transportation: 46
4. Administration: 35
5. Healthcare Medical: 32
6. Trades and Construction: 32
7. Food Service: 29
8. Retail and Sales: 21

Healthcare and social services together took nearly a third of all your apply clicks. That confirms something we have been feeling for a while: Western Canada needs these workers, and you are stepping up.

A quick note to the employers

To the employers who posted with us and took the time to include a real email address or a real Application Information section in your listing: thank you. Half the apply clicks from this community (366 of them) went to employer emails we pulled directly from your postings. That means half of these job seekers reached you without ever having to leave the platform to hunt for your address. That only works because you took the time to include the details.

A quick note to the job seekers

Some of you have taken the leap to register for an account, save your searches, and get notified when new matching roles appear. Others come and go quietly, browse the map, click Apply. However you use JobAds.ca is fine by us. What matters is that when you find the role, we help you take the shot.

And to those of you who sent feedback, reported bugs, asked for features: keep it coming. This is a live project. The dark mode, the redesigned job pages, the saved-search alerts, the career guides in Saskatchewan and Alberta, the income calculator, the new business directory: all of them exist because someone in this community said "hey, this would be useful".

What is next

We will keep shipping. More career guides. Better search. Wider coverage across Western Canada as the smaller feeds mature. More market insight posts. Better tooling for employers who want to post directly. And we will keep publishing quarterly snapshots like this one so you can see where the numbers go.

If you have not searched recently, come see what is new. If you have not signed up yet, that unlocks the saved-search alerts (which are honestly the best thing on the site). And if you are hiring, post a job.

Thanks for being part of this. Really.

The team at JobAds.ca