{"id":69,"date":"2011-05-05T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:10:49","slug":"work-prospects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/jobs\/work-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Work prospects for mechanical engineers in Canada are currently  rated &#8220;Good.&#8221;**  Employment in this group is growing at an above-average  rate, and the unemployment rate, at 4%, is lower than the average  rate.**<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The work prospect outlook to 2009 is also rated &#8220;Good.&#8221;**  The  employment growth rate will likely be above average, due to the  increased pressure on manufacturers to adopt new technologies.**  In BC,  a total of 1,010 positions for mechanical engineers are expected to  become available between 2006 and 2011.*<\/p>\n<p>* BC statistics from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workfutures.bc.ca\/\">www.workfutures.bc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n** Canada-wide statistics from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobfutures.ca\/\">www.jobfutures.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work prospects for mechanical engineers in Canada are currently rated &#8220;Good.&#8221;** Employment in this group is growing at an above-average rate, and the unemployment rate, at 4%, is lower than the average rate.** The work prospect outlook to 2009 is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/jobs\/work-prospects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7137,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thinkmecheng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}