Thousands descend on National Job Fair
by investor on 31/03/09 at 6:43 pm
Thousands of people have descended on the National Job Fair and Training Expo in downtown Toronto, bearing folders full of resumes and a shared hope of finding work.
There were few smiles to be offered, but organizers said they sensed hopefulness in the hundreds of people who lined up to enter the fair at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
“Just coming here shows they have hope,” said Job Fair founder Daniel Levesque.
The busiest exhibitors at the two-day fair are those with jobs to offer, like Everest College.
The business, technology and health college has dozens of positions opening up across the province, said human resources manager Farrell Hall.
Training courses at its 17 campuses have been swamped since the economic downturn, prompting an immediate need to expand. Potential candidates are being interviewed on site today, and could receive job offers within weeks, he said.
A number of provinces also have large presences at the Toronto Convention Centre, hoping to lure workers to a new frontier or convince expats to return home.
Prince Edward Island has a list of 46 jobs to be filled, Saskatchewan has its own ‘street’, and New Brunswick pulled out all the stops with its mock Maritime kitchen offering King Cole tea, ginger snaps, music and picturesque images of life away from Toronto’s streets.
And the strategy could work. Yogesh Patel, an out of work mechanical engineer who came to Canada from India three years ago, said he’s willing to move anywhere to land work in his field.
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