I love the way this city makes it nearly impossible for anyone over the age of 25 who isn’t enrolled in school or willing to make minimum wage run screaming West. I have had five amazing friends leave N.S this year, not because they didn’t love the city but because they couldn’t GET ANY JOB AT ALL. With 40 applications on average sent out a day, and no responses it wasn’t for lack of trying. People hire who they know and won’t give anyone else a chance. This city is dying. We don’t pay our young people enough to survive and soon, Halifax will be a city of pensioners and baby boomers with no one to take care of them when they get old. —On my way to Toronto
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.
40 applications per day? Well there is your problem. Slow the hell down and get the first 8 applications done correctly.
Don’t know exactly what kind of work you’re looking for but a flood of baby boomers are retiring from the provincial government:
http://novascotia.ca/psc/jobCentre/
My daughter, age 23, had no difficulty in obtaining a job in her chosen field, in fact she’s switched jobs for better prospects. She does have a couple of REAL degrees, Global Biz Management and Accounting, and no aspirations to become a barista. She’s heading back to Uni next month to complete her CMA and MBA designations.
either she’s extremely fortunate, or she was in the right place with the right qualifications.
Here endeth the bragging session, feel free to hurl abuse.
Just a tiny tale on lousy resumes:
When my other ‘arf retired, the application requirements for his job were two technical degrees in audio/video/multimedia and at least 8 years of experience – the prize resume: one bozo applied and listed his experience as ‘worked at Video Difference’ – Lard Tundering Jesus!
Five of the 936,025 people in the province means that 0.00534% left this year. Without doing further math, or accounting for those who will inevitably return (once they fully understand the whole grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side rule), you’ll be dead before Halifax becomes a ghost town…. sorry if they didn’t teach you this in university…
Yeah, except the grass is greener on the other side.
RUN…
RUN AND NEVER LOOK BACK.
Oh you young’uns and your stupid ideals… when your lives come crushing down around you, don’t call Daddy Meaty!
Getting a gov’t job is pretty tough, Fonnebone. Thousands of applications submitted for like 4 openings. Doesn’t give young less experienced candidates a very good chance.
I’m super happy for you and your daughter Spiny, I really am. Numbers don’t lie though. We have a serious trend of young people leaving our province and it is going to cause problems for everyone sooner than later. I understand we don’t have the industry or natural resources that other places have, we’ll never be able to offer what Alberta can, but we need to start coming up with some sort of idea instead of just acting like everything is hunky dory.
Well TJ we actually have a butt load of natural resources in Nova Scotia, we just haven’t had anyone in town that knew how to properly utilize them