Canada’s Smart City is positively brimming with smart people. After all, Greater Halifax boasts one of the best-educated workforce in all of Canada with 67% of the working age population possessing a university degree or a non-university trades certificate or diploma - one of the top five cities in Canada.

Our population of over 370,000 – approximately 40% of Nova Scotia’s residents and more than 15% of all Atlantic Canadians – offers companies in all industries access to a highly diversified and skilled workforce. In 2006, 63,100 people in Greater Halifax worked in management, business, finance, and administration-related jobs while 57,400 worked in sales and service positions.

This highly desirable workforce is helping to create unprecedented employment opportunities in Greater Halifax. In fact, the total number of jobs is forecast to increase by over 3% over the next five years with much of that increase coming from professional trades.