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Tourism Business: Tech Company and Fruit Farm

tourism business: Indeed, one of the enduring ironies on this battered and beautiful old ship of a province is that we have high unemployment combined with a shortage of willing or qualified workers to fill vacant positions, according to The Chronicle Herald. If you own a fish plant, or a tourism business, or a fruit farm, chances are you'll have a tough time attracting reliable let alone experienced employees. Lots of other jobs also go begging for good applicants in Nova Scotia. If you manage a tech company large or small, get ready to compete inside a global sector with an insatiable appetite for new IT grads. Pardon me for being glib, but if it's hard to find fast food employees in Nova Scotia, it's probably more difficult to track down all the specialized firms and skilled employees you need to complete one of the largest shipbuilding projects on the planet. The endless quest to find burger flippers in Nova Scotia casts light on the contretemps over the skilled and sometimes foreign workers Irving Shipbuilding is hiring for its big combat and patrol ship program on the Halifax waterfront. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.