Plan Nord –
Employment Prospects

The Plan Nord is a sustainable development project that integrates energy, mining, forest, bio-food, tourism and transportation development, the development of wildlife, environmental protection and the preservation of biodiversity. It fosters development for the benefit of the communities concerned and Québec as a whole, in a spirit of respect for cultures and identities.

The Plan Nord covers all of Québec's territory north of the 49^th parallel and north of the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, except for Anticosti Island. This territory encompasses the Nord-du-Québec region, most of the Côte-Nord region and the northern part of the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region¹.

From 2011 to 2015, 34 700 jobs will need to be filled in the three administrative regions covered by the Plan Nord, representing 5% of all the jobs to be filled throughout Québec. Many of these jobs will require secondary-level vocational training or college-level technical training. Several industries will experience strong growth during this period, and not exclusively ones in the natural resources sector.

Strongest industries between 2010 and 2015 in the territory of the Plan Nord*

The following occupations require vocational or technical training and have good employment prospects between 2011 and 2015 in the territory of the Plan Nord.

¹ Employment prospects are presented according to the administrative regions involved. The entire Nord-du-Québec region falls within the territory of the Plan Nord, but this is not the case for the Côte-Nord region (73%) or the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region (71%). Also, employment statistics for the Côte-Nord and Nord-du-Québec regions are grouped together.