Retiring workers and the rocketing need for resources mean graduates with technical skills will be scooped up, experts say. ...Read the full article
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Mark P from Calgary, Canada writes: Salaries for many disciplines in engineering, in particular, electrical, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, have barely moved in the past 5 years. If there was a shortage, then salaries would be skyrocketing. They are not.
If firms are going to be facing a labour shortage, they need to be proactive, not reactive. There's plenty of quality engineering talent out there that's unemployed and ready to work, if the industrys recruiters would just pick up the phone or do a simple search on Monster or Workopolis.- Posted 05/05/08 at 3:08 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Journey Man from Ontario, Canada writes: Aaron White: Just another example of somebody spending four years at university in order to get a job at a waiter. Then of course he spends a couple of years at SAIT to actually find a career.
How much is this post-secondary system costing?...($36 billion across the country). Why are so many university graduates over-educated and under employed? Why don't we encourage more young people to enter college or an apprenticeship straight out of high-school, and then through a laddering system build up to a degree as their career progresses?
We have to re-thing this whole system. A university education is not all that it is cracked up to be! (P.S. - I was first a tradesman, then a eng. technologist, and now I have a B.A.Sc.)- Posted 05/05/08 at 10:04 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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