The Conference Board of Canada is calling on employers and immigrants to work together to address an ongoing “skills mismatch” in the Canadian economy.
While employers have said “again and again” that they can’t find workers with the skills they need to grow their company, there’s also a huge influx of newcomers who are “ending up in jobs where they’re over skilled,” says Susan Black, president and CEO, Conference Board of Canada in an interview with BNN Bloomberg.
One thing that causes the skills mismatch is that small- and medium-sized businesses “don’t always have the resources” do assess skills or “to figure out what credentialing should look like” and “that’s a challenge,” says Black during the BNN Bloomberg interview.
