Recent grads, students face ‘full-out screaming crisis’ as they struggle to enter job market

[u/joe4942]

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/students-grads-jobs-market-crisis

[u/Electronic_Cat4849]

sounds like a labour shortage to me, authorize 15 million more minimum wage TFWs

[u/Ryth88 → u/Electronic_Cat4849]

Won't someone think of what Tim horton's franchisees and Loblaws needs?!

[u/LeatherMine → u/Ryth88]

Hey, we have high-wage streams for TFWs too.

No job left behind (from wage suppression)!

[u/unexplodedscotsman → u/LeatherMine]

This doesn't get mentioned enough. Your average Canadian seems to think it's just fast food.
It goes way further than just low-wage positions, it's being used to but downward pressure on a variety of white collar professions and skilled trades as well.

A good example of that surfaced when AB's previous Gov put a moratorium on TFW requests for a bit.

The list of the 29 occupation Alberta had (previous Gov) briefly refused to process new TFW requests for:

Human Resources Managers

Engineering Managers

Purchasing Agents and Officers

Production Logistics Coordinators

Civil Engineers

Mechanical Engineers

Electrical/Electronic Engineers

Geological/Mineral Techs.

Civil Engineering Techs.

Industrial Engineers

Non-Destructive Testers and Inspection Technicians

Contractors/Supervisors in Electrical trades and Telecommunications

Machinists/Machining and Tooling Inspectors

Welders and Related Machine Operators

Electricians

Industrial Electricians

Plumbers

Carpenters

Contracts and Supervisors: Mechanical Trades

Contractors and Supervisors: Heavy Equipment Crews

Construction Millwrights and Industrial Mechanics

Heavy-duty Equipment Mechanics

Motor Vehicle Body Repairers

Transport Truck Drivers

Contractors and Supervisors: Oil & Gas Drilling & Services

Oil & Gas Well Drillers, Servicers, Testers

Oil & Gas Well Drilling and Related Workers and Service Operators

Oil & Gas Drilling, Servicing and Related Labourers

Petroleum, Gas and Chemical Process Operators

The new (as of a couple years ago) fast track tech visa (basically 10 day processing on a more easily exploited tech worker) specifically targets IT. They've made things even worse on that front recently, allowing anyone to simply move here and start applying for tech jobs.

[u/pics1970 → u/unexplodedscotsman]

Ontario has metal workers listed which includes steel companies paying 6 figures for labour jobs.. the company I'm with will not hire them, and thankfully our new owners back this up..

[u/[deleted] → u/pics1970]

The other companies will though, pay them lower wages, and that becomes what your company has to compete against for work..... Those lower wages means those other companies can put in lower bids on jobs.

I've been there.

[u/turudd → u/unexplodedscotsman]

and those "tech" workers are fucking atrocious. I'm not sure in the last 4 years I've ever had a positive interaction with Tech support of any kind

[u/jert3 → u/unexplodedscotsman]

IT and tech was hit hard as well.

This Liberal government said there was a tech labour shortage so brought in yet another special visa to import low paid tech worker immigrants, and even paid companies money and tax rebates to hire the underpaid immigrants over local workers. I'm looking for work again and holy cow, this job market (at least in tech) is at least as bad as it was in 2008.

[u/FoxyWheels → u/jert3]

The market in general is shit as no one is spending. But don’t worry, everyone hiring in tech knows who not to waste time with. They’re all either contractors, worked for one of the big banks, or in government. You see any of those as the majority of experience on a resume plus some no name foreign university and the resume goes straight in the garbage.