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Omar Yaqub

Worker squeeze to hit oilpatch - 0 views

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work alberta competitiveness trends

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  • Jobs in Alberta's oilpatch could double over the next decade if commodity prices remain strong, leading to a labour crunch rivalling that of the last boom cycle, according to an industry council.
  • Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada warns the shortage of skilled workers already being felt across the Canadian oilpatch will deepen, regardless of commodity prices and activity levels in the oil and gas industry.
  • "We are headed toward a severe labour shortage, regardless of future energy prices and industry activity," said chief executive Cheryl Knight.
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  • "Our industries will need to be prepared to face a labour shortage more severe than what we experienced in 2007."
  • about 102,300 positions would open in a high-price scenario, up from 57,850 positions in 2009.
  • Alberta ? Low-price scenario: 33,000 net hires- High oil, low natural gas price scenario: 50,800 net hires- High-price scenario: 102,300 net hires- 2009 estimated workforce: 57,850
  • major driver in the forecast is Canada's aging workforce, about 30 per cent of which will retire over the next decade.
  • "Even in the worst scenario, when energy prices and industry activity are low, we will need to hire at least 39,000 workers to replace those who are retiring," Knight said. "If industry expands in a highprice scenario, we will need to find 130,000 workers to fill new positions."
  • The oilpatch already is seeing shortages in skill sets such as geology, engineering and geophysical expertise, as well as on-the-ground field workers.
  • Access to labour and skills determine the unit of production of the petroleum industry."
  • services sector may need to hire as many as 72,000 workers over the next 10 years, he said. Jones noted it takes the average rig worker about 10 years to accumulate enough skills and experience to become a rig manager.
Omar Yaqub

Worker squeeze to hit oilpatch - 0 views

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work alberta competitiveness trends

shared by Omar Yaqub on 30 Mar 11 - Cached
  • council sees demand for workers skilled in new technologies associated with unconventional oil and gas exploration and production, as well as increased demand for employees such as water and environmental management technicians, steam engineers and fracking operators,
  • Attracting workers with the right skills is "essential to sustain growth in the industry," said Jennifer Koury, vice-president corporate services with driller EnerPlus.
  • "Everyone remembers that in 2007 severe labour shortages put serious limits on our industry and it cost us in the industry dearly," she said. "The (report) has shown us that the industry will soon be entering another severe labour shortage and we need to be prepared."
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  • A shrinking labour market will drive up costs and make the industry less competitive, said Gary Leach, executive director of the Small Explorers and Producers Association of Canada.
  • "If you don't have trained workers in key choke points, and we're already seeing that, it's going to affect the development of all sorts of big projects," Leach said.
Omar Yaqub

Losing on long-term skilled migration | The Australian - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • CITING a backlog of more than 140,000 applications for skilled migration, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship released amendments to the system of awarding points for applications last year.
  • Most futurists, who spend decades modelling scenarios, agree that 70 per cent of jobs in 2050 don't even exist yet
  • Permanent migration is no longer particularly permanent in a fluid, globalised labour market where international graduates strategically select destinations where they will study, live and work for the medium term before moving on or home, in a pattern referred to increasingly as return or triangular migration.
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  • supply will outstrip demand by 2025 in the local labour market if the present skilled migrant ratio is achieved long term.
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Labour Shortage - Alberta Primetime Stories - 0 views

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work alberta edmonton competitiveness

shared by Omar Yaqub on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Omar Yaqub on 07 Apr 11
     
    The news for Alberta's economy just keeps getting better. But, with the return of growth, also comes a problem many Albertans are all too familiar with. A survey in our Province suggests the majority of businesses say they are already having a hard time finding workers
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Labour already tight early in recovery: panel - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 01 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • return of scarce labour and rising construction costs will be the downside of renewed economic growth in Alberta
  • Alberta's 5.7-per-cent unemployment rate in February was tied with Saskatchewan for second-lowest in the country behind Manitoba. Private-sector job growth in the province leads the nation at five per cent year-over-year.
  • But 62 per cent of business leaders also reported that finding workers was a problem, he said.
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  • In a January survey of city businesses by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, 65 per cent said economic conditions were better than a year ago, said Rick Hersack, the chamber's chief economist.
  • "Businesses are telling us that we're back up into a growth mode and we're concerned it might be going into another boom -the concern mainly being the strain on labour availability," Hersack said
  • In the goods-producing sector, a higher proportion -80 per cent -called labour supply a problem, while 56 per cent expected a shortage in one to three years.
  • In the service sector, 54 per cent said labour availability was a problem and 44 per cent anticipated a shortage
  • "With the ramp-up in the energy sector, that affects essentially all of Alberta," Hersack said. "We also asked our members about their hiring intentions and they'll well exceed the availability of labour force.
  • Kavcic said labour shortages will push wages up.
  • as wages rose, migration of labour from East to West would also rise.
  • "Three areas that clients and business owners remain cautious on are labour force, what's going to happen with commodity prices and the weather," Hogg said.
  • "Businesses all remember what happened in Alberta in 2005 with the difficulty and expense of hiring employees."
  • A report released by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada Tuesday also warned a labour force of about 130,000 workers will be needed to fill new jobs in the oilpatch and keep pace with retirements.
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ProActive Personnel - 0 views

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  • ProActive Personnel is a staffing agency that specializes in temporary, permanent and contract placement throughout Western Canada.
  • Omar Yaqub on 26 Apr 11
     
    ProActive Personnel is a staffing agency that specializes in temporary, permanent and contract placement throughout Western Canada.
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http://www.urbanfutures.com/Q4%202010%20Migration.htm - 0 views

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immigrants trends competitiveness work

shared by Omar Yaqub on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • For  those  of  us  that  follow  the  ebbs  and  flows  of  migration  data,  the  most  recent release from Statistics Canada’s Quarterly Demographic Estimates caught us off guard. While  most  media  did  not  report  on  the  release,  headlines  could  have  run  the  gamut, from “Canada  experiences  its  second  largest  quarter‐over‐quarter  decline  in  net international  migration”  to  “British  Columbia’s  net  international  migration  is  negative for the first time ever”
  • In  British  Columbia  the  rather  significant  divergence  from  recent  trends  was  the consequence of the departure of large numbers of temporary workers and/or students from  the  province,  presumably  returning  home.
  • Alberta  saw  the  number  of  non‐permanent  residents  decline  by  6,725, Saskatchewan by 414, Manitoba by 406, Ontario by 12,603, and Quebec by 5,900. The most  notable  changes  were,  however,  in  the  west.  In  only  two  provinces  (BC  and Alberta)  was  immigration  not  significant  enough  to  balance  the  outflow  of  non‐ permanent  residents,  thus  resulting  in  declines  in  total  net  international  migration  of 727 in BC and 2,092 in Alberta
Omar Yaqub

ATB: Unemployment Rate Only Part of the Story - 0 views

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    Since reaching its peak last April at 7.6%, the Alberta unemployment rate has  recovered to 5.7% as of March 2011. However, to say the labour market  has  completely recovered because the unemployment rate has fallen misses an important point. The average length of unemployment in Alberta was 16.8 weeks in the first quarter of 2011, still up near the peak of 17.7 weeks reached in Q2 2010. This is substantially longer than before the recession, when the average duration of unemployment was around 8 weeks (see graph). This is a sign that the current labour market consists of two distinct groups of job seekers: those who have the skills and qualities employers want, and those who do not.During the boom years the length of unemployment was abnormally low in Alberta as employers, suffering from labour shortages,  couldn't afford to be  too  selective. However, with labour demand  cooling with the recession, individuals who currently do not have  the skills employers desire face a tough hiring climate.The unemployment rate and the duration of unemployment indicator  have followed  similar (although less dramatic)  paths at the national level,indicating that this  phenomenon is not unique to Alberta.Long-term unemployment is a much larger problem than short-term as it leads to myriad of other  social troubles. Over the coming quarters, the duration of unemployment might trickle back down slowly as the economy improves, although the root of this problem (lack of skills/skills mismatch) can't be solved by more economic growth - the solution lies in things like further education and re-training.  
Omar Yaqub

After wild ride, employers have plenty at stake in this campaign - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 28 Apr 11 - Cached
  • job-creation plans
  • job retraining programs.
  • To me that's not good public policy because it's essentially paying for jobs
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  • he says, adding the federal government should instead be looking for ways to increase productivity, such as by helping companies invest in labour-saving equipmen
  • Instead of needing help to create jobs, Alberta firms are unique in that they need help finding labour, says Dale Allen, president of the Acheson Business Association and head of SciTech Engineered Chemicals.
  • "And that means it's now becoming difficult to get labour," says Allen, whose company of six employees produces environmentally friendly products such as organic salts for cleaning gas plants. "Everybody is competing for the same people."
  • To help the situation, Allen says the federal government should try to recruit skilled workers from countries like the United States and Great Britain, which are still going through economic difficulty. Bringing in unskilled, temporary foreign workers is a more time-consuming and costly practice for companies, he says.
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EFFECTS OF DIVERSITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: REPORT OF THE DIVERSITY RESEARCH NETWORK - 0 views

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Work immigrants

shared by Omar Yaqub on 15 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Omar Yaqub on 15 Jul 11
     
    This article summarizes the results and conclusions reached in studies of the relationships between race and gender diversity and business performance carried out in four large firms by aresearch consortium known as the Diversity Research Network. These researchers were asked bythe BOLD Initiative to conduct this research to test arguments regarding the "business case" fordiversity. Few positive or negative direct effects of diversity on performance were observed. Instead a number of different aspects of the organizational context and some group processes moderated diversity-performance relationships. This suggests a more nuance
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