http://vanamburggroup.com/blogs/job-posting-resources-for-you/ The VanAmburg Group Blog - Marketing Tech Mindshifts Wed, 04 May 2011 14:22:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://vanamburggroup.com/blogs/job-posting-resources-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-420 JudyBerg Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:40:52 +0000 http://vanamburggroup.com/blogs/?p=3150#comment-420 Yesterday, Canada posted its job loss for the month of January, the highest number ever in a one month period at 129,000. I believe the US announced an equally devastating number of almost 600,000. Interestingly, commentators in Canada, were remarking that although it was bleak, it was not as bad as what the US was experiencing. Ironically, no one was reporting or comparing on a per capita basis. The Canadian population is about one-tenth that of the US... a comparative number would be more like 1.29 million jobs lost. I don't like to be a "Chicken Little", but I also do not like to see leaders with their heads in the sand. This directory is a wonderful resource. Yes, the economy is bad but at the same time there are many employers still crying for workers. The province I live in , British Columbia,is short 2000 nurses. My friend , Peter, says in the little town he lives in, the woman who owns the corner grocery store is paying more than double the minimum wage and cannot get someone to work in this little community at the retail store. Become familiar with this directory resource before you have lost your job. The jobs are out there and will continue to be. The economy is undergoing a huge adjustment as we shift out of a manufacturing/ industrial era. It means each worker needs to be prepared to retrain, relocate and rethink...and it is best to do that when you are still employed. I was a Director in our federal department of Employment and Immigration during the recession in the mid-1980's. Our unemployment rate was between 12 - 16% and even higher in certain regions and Atlantic Canada. We are currently at 7.6%. This current jobless figure would have been considered good news back then... and at that time, since we had been in recession for a few years, we had a much larger number of discouraged workers who were no longer even being counted in that rate. We are no where close to the jobless bottom of this recession and workers will be well-advised to have a Plan B while they are still employed. Yesterday, Canada posted its job loss for the month of January, the highest number ever in a one month period at 129,000. I believe the US announced an equally devastating number of almost 600,000.
Interestingly, commentators in Canada, were remarking that although it was bleak, it was not as bad as what the US was experiencing. Ironically, no one was reporting or comparing on a per capita basis. The Canadian population is about one-tenth that of the US… a comparative number would be more like 1.29 million jobs lost.
I don't like to be a "Chicken Little", but I also do not like to see leaders with their heads in the sand.
This directory is a wonderful resource. Yes, the economy is bad but at the same time there are many employers still crying for workers. The province I live in , British Columbia,is short 2000 nurses.
My friend , Peter, says in the little town he lives in, the woman who owns the corner grocery store is paying more than double the minimum wage and cannot get someone to work in this little community at the retail store.
Become familiar with this directory resource before you have lost your job. The jobs are out there and will continue to be. The economy is undergoing a huge adjustment as we shift out of a manufacturing/ industrial era. It means each worker needs to be prepared to retrain, relocate and rethink…and it is best to do that when you are still employed.
I was a Director in our federal department of Employment and Immigration during the recession in the mid-1980's. Our unemployment rate was between 12 – 16% and even higher in certain regions and Atlantic Canada. We are currently at 7.6%. This current jobless figure would have been considered good news back then… and at that time, since we had been in recession for a few years, we had a much larger number of discouraged workers who were no longer even being counted in that rate.
We are no where close to the jobless bottom of this recession and workers will be well-advised to have a Plan B while they are still employed.

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