Saskatchewan may have a big jobs boom, but in my experience it's not in tech. A couple of years ago, my now wife had graduated from school and because she is o

Saskatchewan may have a big jobs boom, but in my experience it's not in tech. A couple of years ago, my now wife had graduated from school and because she is originally from Saskatoon, we decided to look there for jobs. I work in the tech sector as a somewhat specialized software engineer. There wasn't much in available my specialization, so I started applying to jobs for which I was, if anything, overqualified, if anything. While my typical interview to application ratio is quite high, I had no responses after about 20 applications in Saskatoon. We ended up in Vancouver, which I'm happy for, but not until after desperately trying to live in Saskatoon. Maybe my experience was an outlier, but it seemed like there were plenty of jobs if I was a mining or potash engineer, not so much for a software engineer.