Every public health-employer job board the registry reaches, crawled once a day. A posting is not a position and a position is not a full-time job, so all three are counted separately and never used interchangeably. Panels this crawl cannot yet answer are marked and explained rather than filled.
This week at a glance
Direction is measured against the previous weekly crawl. A figure is held when it moved less than 1% for a count or half a point for a share. Changes in duration are shown in days whatever the units toggle says, because rounding a one-day move to weeks erases it. Long-duration means 90 days or more, matching Statistics Canada's definition so these figures sit beside the official series rather than competing with it.
The card that goes out this week
Two units travel. Days-open is the intuitive one; times-advertised is the durable one, because on boards with union-mandated posting windows the days count is set by policy and the repost count is not. Select any row below to re-render.
By jurisdiction
Open postings
Longest open right now
Click a row to load the card| Posting | Days open | vs. role median |
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Most re-advertised
by the board’s own label| Posting | Times | Since |
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Biggest movers this week
First seen this week
Where the openings are, what kind of work they are, and how long they sit
Counts alone rank provinces by population. The per-100,000 and remoteness views that would correct for that need reference data this pipeline does not yet load, so the map below is a count of what is crawled and is labelled as such.
By province
| Province | Open | Per 100k | Median days | 90+ days | Per net new nurse | Schedule data |
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Every jurisdiction with an approved source.
By remoteness — Statistics Canada 2021 Index of Remoteness
This is the check on the whole method. Statistics Canada publishes long-duration vacancy rates by remoteness in its Job Vacancy and Wage Survey. Comparing this crawl against that series is the single strongest validation available — two independent methods measuring the same thing. It is not possible yet: remoteness is not derived here, so there is nothing to compare. This panel is the reason the remoteness work is worth doing.
Statistics Canada, Canada's health workforce: Regional vacancy trends, 2024 — Job Vacancy and Wage SurveyWhat kind of work is advertised
Bar length would be median days to close and the count sits on the right. The counts are real; the durations are not comparable across boards that close postings on a set date and boards that do not, so they are withheld rather than averaged.
Open postings by provider type
How long open postings have been live
How postings leave the board
Closed before the stated end date most likely filled. Run to the window is ambiguous — union rules often fix the window regardless of outcome. Extended past it is the clearest struggle signal a board gives up.
Median days to close, by role family
Small multiples on a shared scale, so the four families stay comparable without four competing colours fighting each other. Twelve months of monthly history. The crawl began on 23 August 2026.
Incentives advertised
Employers control how a position is designed — its shift length, whether it rotates through nights, whether it carries on-call. This is the only screen that measures what those choices cost in time-to-fill, holding the role, the city, and the employment type constant.
- Straight days
- 38
- Twelve-hour rotating
- 86
- Postings in scope
- Schedule coverage
Median days to fill, by shift pattern
Registered nurse postings only, permanent full-time only, restricted to cities where more than one pattern appears — so the comparison is within a labour market, not across them.
Weekends required
Not stated is not the same as no. Where a board does not publish weekend requirements the field stays null and is reported as its own category, never folded into "not required".
On-call required
On-call adds three weeks to the median even before rotation is considered, and it is the requirement most often buried in the posting body rather than a structured field.
Rotation cycle length
Longer cycles mean a candidate must read further ahead to know what their life looks like. Whether the cycle length itself deters applicants, or simply correlates with the units that run them, this data cannot say.
What this screen can and cannot support
- Population
- Registered nurse postings, permanent full-time only, evergreen excluded, closed within the observation window. No posting has closed yet, so this population is currently empty and every figure derived from it is marked not measured.
- Geography held constant
- Restricted to cities where at least two shift patterns appear for the same role. Without this, the comparison mostly measures rural versus urban and calls it schedule.
- Source coverage
- Only sources publishing structured rotation fields are included — Sources whose schedule detail would have to be prose-extracted are excluded from this cut rather than mixed in at lower fidelity.
- Three-state fields
- Nights, evenings, weekends and on-call are true, false, or unknown. Unknown is reported, never silently treated as false — that single decision is the difference between a defensible finding and a flattering one.
- Not observable at any fidelity
- Weekend frequency — every other versus one in three — quick returns, shift sequencing, and self-scheduling. These are the fatigue-critical variables and no board publishes them. The ceiling of this analysis is the pattern components, which happens to be exactly the level a manager controls when designing the position.
- What it is not
- Association, not causation. A twelve-hour rotating line may sit longer because of the rotation, or because the units that run them are also the units with the worst reputations. Both are worth an employer's attention; only one is a scheduling fix.
Riverbend Health Centre
Currently advertising
- Median days
- 71
- 90+ days
- 32%
- Full-time permanent
- 34%
- Longest, days
- 302
- Re-advertised
- 18
- Evergreen
- 9
Open postings over time
Rolling count at each weekly crawl. This is the series the whole pipeline exists to build — it starts the day the crawl does.
What kind of work this employer advertises
Days live — open postings
How postings closed
By service setting
Where inside the organisation the postings sit. A health authority's acute sites and its long-term care homes behave nothing alike, and the top-level provider type hides that.
By role family
| Role family | Open | Median days | Longest, days | 90+ days |
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Find your employer
Ranked by median days to close, so a small hospital is comparable to a large one. Everybody looks up their own workplace first — this is the screen that keeps them here after the card brought them in. Twelve of the 214 tracked employers are shown in this prototype.
| # | Employer | Provider type | Open | Median days | vs. slowest | 90+ days | FT perm |
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