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Austin Hracs, MA is the Senior Vice President of Research and Partnerships at Vicinity Jobs Inc. His mandate is to serve Vicinity’s partners as they continue to find new insight and value from their Vicinity data. This includes spearheading new research, leading training on Vicinity’s tools, and informing the development roadmap for all Vicinity Jobs solutions. Austin’s entire professional life has focused on understanding and improving Canada’s labour market. Prior to joining Vicinity Jobs, he was the Director of Research and Implementation at Magnet (a division of Toronto Metropolitan University). There he led Magnet’s Training, Research and Insight, Industry Engagement and Employment Teams to support users and partners across Canada. These included job seekers, employers, employment support organizations, educators, and each level of government. Before Magnet, Austin was a Senior Consultant with MDB Insight (acquired by Deloitte Canada), Canada’s largest economic development consultancy. In this role Austin contributed extensive research, data analysis and strategy advice to projects in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Newfoundland. Most notably, Austin was the lead author for a series of regional and community labour market strategies and research studies. Austin completed his Master’s degree in Economic Geography at Queen’s University where he specialized on the study of factors tied to the attraction and retention of talent to smaller urban centres. Austin has an Honours Degree in both Political Science and Geography from Brock University.As a Research Associate at Queen’s University, Austin also examined the North American automotive sector. Austin’s work has since been published in Climate@Work (2013). Carla Lipsig-Mummé (eds.) The Transportation Equipment Industry. In the Labour in Canada Series, Fernwood Publishing Company Ltd.Austin was born and raised in the City of Richmond Hill, Ontario. He lives in Toronto with his lovely wife Natalie.

Listed skills include Economic Development, Research, Community Development, Public Policy, and 10 others.