I am wondering why is it so hard to find work in Halifax that isn’t in fast food.
I am just looking for full time work that is within the Halifax area (southend, west end or north end). I have an undergraduate degree and I am working towards a masters. I have not had issues in Fredericton or even Sydney finding work. Here is seems impossible.
I guess I will keep trying until the businesses get tired of getting my resumes. I’ve only put out 60 so far. It is just frustrating. I’d love to have a job where I can use my education.
I’ve already tried the call centers. So far no phone calls, its been two weeks.
This article appears in Jul 17-23, 2008.
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IT searchers would have found it handy to look in the business section of a certain paper heralding the great news that they cannot find enough people to hire locally. may want to try there?
I found a great job with great benefits in a great company… and all I had to do was move to Alberta!!!!
I put out 300 resumes, and went on 20+ interviews, before I was hired at my new job. Keep trying, and be a persistent bulldog about it. Good luck!
Jesus, I’m so glad I have never had to deal with this. It must be a nightmare and so depressing.In 10 years I’ve applied for about 10 jobs, had about 6 interviews, and was offered 5 of the jobs.
The hardest job I ever had to find was the one that I thought was already waiting for me upon returning to NS after three years in SCO.Three are very good jobs here but you have to find your niche.
Unfortunately, Halifax has a lot of educated youngsters too, but not enough jobs for them to stick around afterwards. You pretty much have to go away for a bit, get some experience and then head back when you are more marketable…if you still want to. It would be nice if Halifax were better able to capitalize on a well-educated workforce, but we seem to focus on call centers and service-based jobs. I would think it should be possible to succeed in things like biotech, medical, computer programming and software development as I think these would not require as much infrastructure investment or dependency on a major commercial downtown core as other industries might.
Yes I have said many times before that we actually have too many universities pumping out too many Bachelors and Masters, and not nearly enough jobs going around for them. It’s a buyers market. Employers have an absolute orgy of applicants for every job and they can pick and choose far too easily from amongst people who would be considered overqualified for the same jobs in other provinces.Pair that with the increasing credential requirements that have been largely imposed by our heavily unionized environment, and we have a real problem for people who have “just” one or two bachelors degrees. (And yes I know that it’s employers who determine the required credentials in many cases, but they are trying to stay one step ahead of the curve so they aren’t stuck with any ole “basic requirements” hack who has been around for 25 years and has nothing going for them except seniority. The employers have to forever escalate their selection criteria in order to get past this.)
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