Employers say factors including a lack of qualified candidates are making it difficult to fill roles in the current labour market. Read on.
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The No. 1 barrier businesses say they face when recruiting new workers is the “poor quality of candidates,” with 47 per cent of employers identifying that as a top-five issue in a survey of nearly 400 employers in April by Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd.’s Indeed, a web-based hiring platform that connects employers with job seekers.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Raj Mukherjee, executive vice-president at Indeed, said there are “systemic imbalances” in the labour market, though its data shows“From an employer perspective, they are not finding the talent they need,” he said. “Our foundational thesis is that’s because the hiring process itself is inefficient and broken.”in May, Statistics Canada said on June 9. The unemployment rate ticked up 0.2 percentage points, putting the rate above five per cent since December.
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