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Skills Gap in Canada / 1.3 million skilled labour jobs sitting vacant by 2016
In our single-minded obsession with academia, we forgot that the millions of people who literally built our economy would one day be retiring – and that there would be new industries sprouting up that...
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US / Immigration Reform needed to fill the Skills Gap
U.S. immigration policy, since 1965, has restricted the number of foreign workers through a quota system that allocates the workers across various visa categories. In 2013, the quota for permanent...
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Canada’s Skills Gap / The economy faces a deep structural problem says says...
Skills held by new graduates and workers hitting the job market often don’t match the skills employers need and that is exacerbating labour shortages across 14 critical sectors that rely on...
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BC Skills Gap / Only 18 per cent of employers with trades have apprentices
Difficulty finding a job for that valuable work experience is a challenge for many beginning tradespeople, one that Jim Sinclair, president of B.C. Federation of Labour, says is due to declining...
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US / Young skilled immigrants raise the overall employment of skilled workers...
The immigration of skilled workers is of deep importance to the United States, particularly in occupations closely linked to innovation and technology commercialization. Appropriate policies and...
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Malaysia / Construction industry faces severe shortage of workers
Construction companies say the industry is facing a severe shortage of skilled and unskilled workers as government authorities weed out illegal immigrants from the country. They are concerned that if...
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China / Fierce regional competition for skilled workers
China’s coastal cities are facing the pressure of a severe labor shortage as the country’s western interior catches up as a magnet for skilled workers. The situation came to the fore following...
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US – Next year’s supply of 85,000 visas for highly skilled workers gone...
Businesses seeking highly skilled workers from overseas took less than a week to snap up all 85,000 visas available for next year. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday that...
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Tourism in Egypt – A deteriorating job sector
Skilled tourism workers have abandoned the sector, and Egyptian hotels face considerable challenges in training new workers, according to Hussein Badran, adviser to the Ministry of Tourism for human...
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Mobility in Canada – Infrastructure tradespersons are no more likely to have...
In 2011, “infrastructure tradespersons” aged 25 to 44 were no more likely to have migrated from another province or region than those who had other types of postsecondary credentials. Infrastructure...
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