Thinking seriously about getting a job in Canada if your candidate loses the presidential election next week? You may face plenty of competition from your fellow Americans.

Job searches by Americans looking for open roles in Canada are already up 58% this year over the total 2015 number, according to job site Monster. Between January and October, 30,296 queries from U.S. users included the keyword Canada, compared with 19,693 for all of 2015. That is still a small fraction of total searches; more than 69 million job queries...