Companies are now most likely to hire mid-level employees (46 per cent), as entry-level hiring (43 per cent) has dropped sharply compared to last year (56 per cent). Full-time positions remain the most sought-after (74 per cent), while one quarter of companies (25 per cent) plan to hire for part-time roles.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the number of companies planning to cut their workforce has increased to 13 per cent, compared to eight per cent last year. Why:<\/p>\n
\n\tcost-cutting (67 per cent)
\n\tadapting to government policy changes (30 per cent)
\n\tresponding to declining demand (25 per cent).
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As many companies continue to face hiring struggles, most hiring managers in Canada (86 per cent) report their company has waived some job requirements<\/a> to fill open roles, according to a\u00a0 previous Express report.<\/p>\n Hiring strategies for rest of 2025<\/p>\n \u201cAs the hiring landscape continues to evolve, and candidate expectations evolve alongside it, having the right hiring strategy in place will be a major differentiator for success,\u201d says Blaise Radley, content marketing manager at Workday<\/a>. \u201cA strong strategy demands an intentional and candidate-focused approach that effectively integrates technology while maintaining a strong human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n He shares that following tips for employers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies are now most likely to hire mid-level employees (46 per cent), as entry-level hiring (43 per cent)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,19352,19353,124,19351],"class_list":["post-23632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-express-employment-professionals","tag-hiring-plans","tag-jobs","tag-what-is-the-future-hiring-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}