Business Owners and Business Owners

Business owners: Here we are 20 years later and boy, has that tide turned, according to The Telegram. Business owners know this change in the tide only too well. Sixty-seven per cent of business owners who responded to our 2014 Economic Outlook Survey indicated they were concerned about not finding qualified workers to fill positions. I know there are skeptics who look at the published unemployment numbers in the province and wonder, how can we claim to have a labour shortage? Its hard to reconcile the two scenarios and I remember when I finished university in the late 1980s, many of my friends and colleagues had to leave here in order to find jobs on the mainland. Then, when I started my business in the early 1990s, the cod moratorium was underway and everywhere you looked there were people looking for jobs or starting a retraining program with the hope that they would land some sort of meaningful, long-term employment. Help Wanted signs? I never saw the likes of a Help Wanted sign when I was growing up, but you sure see them now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.