Director of Communications
Jessica Perreault
With deep experience in strategic communications and marketing, Jessica leads LMIC’s efforts to communicate its mission of empowering Canadians with high-quality labour market information. She develops and leads the execution of strategies to engage diverse audiences, including government stakeholders, employers, workers, researchers, and policymakers.
Jessica brings a wealth of expertise in digital engagement, branding, and multi-channel communications. Prior to joining LMIC, she worked with mission-driven organizations across North America, where she successfully implemented strategies that increased brand visibility and drove sustainable growth.
Outside of work, Jessica can be found spending time in nature with her husband and three cattle dogs, reading, cooking, and gardening. Her guilty pleasure is anything and everything pop-culture related.
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2019-2020 Annual Report
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Employment Recovery Lags for Low Earners
In August 2020, employment increased by another 246,000 jobs (+1.4%) to bring total employment in the month to nearly 97% of its February level. As noted by Statistics Canada’s data…
WorkWords
LMIC’s WorkWords is an online labour market encyclopedia that provides definitions of key labour market terms, data, uses and concepts.
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The idea of using online job postings to track labour market trends is not new. Vicinity Jobs started doing this in 2006, in collaboration with Canadian economic development professionals. Since…
Immigrant Employment in Sectors Most Affected by COVID-19
Immigrants have suffered greater job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic than Canadian-born workers. Our recent blog post illustrates that employment dropped, in relative terms, for landed immigrants at nearly twice…