Job prospects College Laboratory Assistant in New Brunswick

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Job opportunities in New Brunswick

These outlooks were updated on November 29, 2023.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be moderate for Post-secondary teaching and research assistants (NOC 41201) in New Brunswick for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a moderate number of new positions.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.
• Recent graduates from fields of study related to this occupation have found it easy to find work.

• Teaching and research assistant positions are typically part-time, spanning a term or the academic year, and filled by students.
• With the exception of smaller satellite campuses, all universities are located in the southern portion of the province and demand is expected to be highest within the province’s larger urban centres of Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John.

Here are some key facts about Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in New Brunswick:

• Approximately 800 people work in this occupation.
• Post-secondary teaching and research assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Universities (NAICS 6113): 92%
  • Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s (NAICS 6112): 5%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 62% compared to 84% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 38% compared to 16% for all occupations
• 43% of post-secondary teaching and research assistants work all year, while 56% work only part of the year, compared to 62% and 38% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 35 weeks compared to 42 weeks for all occupations.
• Less than 5% of post-secondary teaching and research assistants are self-employed compared to an average of 10% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 40% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 60% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 11% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 22% compared to 30% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 6% compared to 23% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 40% compared to 16% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 30% compared to 7% for all occupations

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