Skills mismatch hurts firms

By Derek Sankey. Organization calls for concrete steps to ease shortfall. Skills held by new graduates and workers hitting the job market often don't match the skills employers need and that is exacerbating labour shortages across 14 critical sectors that rely on highly-skilled technology workers, according to the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists.
At the organization's National Technology Conference held last week in Winnipeg, employers, educators, government officials and industry observers came together to try to tackle the issue and others. More...