A Prince Edward Island company says the recruitment of staff from outside of Canada has helped it expand.
Bulk Carriers was one of a handful of Island companies to take part in a recent recruiting mission to the Irish cities of Cork and Dublin. The firm has been recruiting truck drivers from overseas for more than seven years due to a shortage of long-haul truck drivers here. "The recruitment of qualified long-haul truck drivers from markets outside of North America has allowed our company to expand," said Jack Kelly, president and CEO of Bulk Carriers (P.E.I.) Limited. "Without this ability, our company could not have grown to where it is today." In total, 67 positions were available from the 10 companies who took part in the Ireland tour. Upon returning from Ireland, companies have begun the process of following up on the leads and conducting interviews. Five job offers have already been made with another seven pending interview. Based on current company feedback, up to 29 positions should be filled by late January. The P.E.I. government also went on the hunt looking for health care professionals in Ireland. "It is often difficult to recruit specialists within Canada and, like many other jurisdictions across the country, we continue to have family physician vacancies in our rural communities, which present challenges from a recruitment perspective," said Health Minister Doug Currie. "This mission provided an opportunity for our recruitment staff to meet with physicians who are highly skilled and trained and have practised within a culture very similar to that of Canada. "We are pleased to say that from this mission there are potentially three very skilled physicians who have demonstrated an interest in pursuing Prince Edward Island as a place to practice." Dubbed Canada's East Coast Job Fair, the mission brought together Immigration departments and companies from the four Atlantic Provinces. The target of the mission was to access both specialized skills that do not exist on the Island and professions where current supply in the province could not meet the demand. "When employers need workers with skills that they can't fill from within Prince Edward Island, we are happy to work with them to find the talented people they need," Innovation and Advanced Learning Minister Allen Roach said. "This kind of recruitment mission helps meet the needs of our Island companies while bringing skilled new Islanders into our communities."
P.E.I. goes to Ireland looking for workers
Three skilled physicians have demonstrated an interest in pursuing the Island as a place to practice
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- wayne kennedy
- - December 19, 2011 at 11:09:10
A recent article points out that business is getting roughly twice as much in gov. subsidies as is given out in personal welfare in this country now. At a time when talk is about not being able to cover pensions and UIC ect. this is not being considered and works against the average Joe in cases like the above.
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- Ed Gallant
- - December 16, 2011 at 16:56:32
I guess after all those trips to China, the Ghiz government doesn't want to say that they paid for the trip, so they say they went along. You can bet your bottom dollar that the companies that went along didn't pay for it, so I think you can guess who did. The taxpayers. I didn't know that driving a truck was such a highly skilled occupation that they had to go all the way to Ireland to find someone.I guess everything is to be outsourced these days, as long as the government keeps paying for it. These companies should be ashamed of themselves for living off the fat of the land.They are taking jobs from Islanders and our Govt. subsidizes their wages.Sad.
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- WHO PAID
- - December 12, 2011 at 10:36:08
The article stated that the Government went along on the trip. Am I to assume that as usual the Taxpayers paid for another trip by private business people who will not hire local people? We have a truck driving school who as the comment said above will not take local people who have returned to the Province but the trucking companies will go to other countries to get drivers. Perhaps it is because they pay them less. Talk to some of these foreign drivers as see.
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- wayne kennedy
- - December 11, 2011 at 19:35:08
Gov. was offering a truck driving course from school set up in Slemon Park ind. park. I was turned down as I had spent 20yrs. in Alta. they said I won't know how to get around???? Seems since the immig. dept is set up they plan on processing more and more regards of the unemployment here. Middle class gain in short term from the lower wages and higher rents? We take in 300,000 per year now check it out it's hard to believe.
