It seems discovering a job lately is definitely fairly straightforward.
The powerful half is being a enterprise proprietor attempting to rent and keep workers.
“Discovering somebody that’s certified and that desires to indicate up and work — it’s subsequent to inconceivable proper now,” mentioned Tyson Wokoeck, Luxclusv Group’s CEO.
The Luxclusv Group, an actual property and growth firm in Kelowna, is experiencing the battle.
It’s having a tough time discovering working professionals to affix the staff.
“Getting individuals to use proper now could be painful. We’re promoting on ten completely different websites, spending some huge cash,” mentioned Wokoeck.
“We’re interviewing possibly a pair individuals each week however but nobody appears to indicate up for the job. We’re paying aggressive charges, properly over really, and we’re nonetheless not getting what we’re on the lookout for.”
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The jobless price in Kelowna is 4.4 per cent — one of many lowest within the nation, based on a Statistics Canada report, and a far cry from the ten.2 per cent seen in the summertime of 2020 in the course of the top COVID-19 lockdowns.
B.C.’s unemployment price is sitting at 5.9 per cent with a full-time workforce of round 2.1 million individuals and solely 160,000 British Columbians with no job.
Total throughout the nation, there are virtually 900,000 job vacancies, based on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
It mentioned filling these jobs will probably be tough, citing the shortage of certified staff as a significant subject.
“The actual fact is the onerous half begins now. Expertise is a matter in each sector, at each degree of the worth chain, in each a part of the nation, and there’s no silver bullet repair at hand,” mentioned Leah Nord, Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s senior director of workforce methods.
Different unemployment charges throughout B.C. embody Vancouver at 6.7 per cent and Victoria at 4.4 per cent.
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