A coalition of industry professionals – “Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s IT Skills” has called on the Canadian government to loosen Canada immigration requirements to more easily allow highly-educated skilled workers to live and work in Canada. The coalition also intends to market the technology sector to high schools in an effort to attract more high-tech post-secondary students.
More than 90,000 jobs in the information technology sector will need to be filled in the next three to five years and could potentially impact the Canadian economy to the tune of $10.6-billion, said Conference Board of Canada vice-president of organizational effectiveness, Dr. Michael Bloom.
“The problem is much bigger than any of us at the Conference Board has identified,” said Mr. Bloom.
A “perfect storm” of socio-demographic factors, negative perceptions of the tech sector following the bubble burst of 2002 and a significant drop in university enrolment in IT programs across Canada has all come together to create this dire scenario, said Mr. Bloom.
source: David George-Cosh, Financial Post
Published: Monday, January 21, 2008
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Hi,
I am computer network professional with 5+ years exeriance but havent get a job. I dont know if still IT pplz are short here.
We are currently applying for immigration and have been held back for over a year due to the fact that we were not in possession of a legal work permit or canadian residents card. We are a couple of highly trained IT workers, my husband is a engineer with 15 years of IT experience in aviation industrial and ERP programming.
However, being perfectly bilingual in both Canadian languages with parents who could be support in place apparently does not suffice due to administrative back logs…also if there is such a shortage why this preference for English or German ( by the way I am German and trained in the UK…) it all strikes me as very odd. Food for thought
since administration and canadian empl;oyers shy away from integrating people who do not possess a work permit. It is too complicated they say etc…pretty frustrating seeing that there is supposed tobe a shortage…