The New Brunswick based Day and Ross Transportation Group is touting the benefits of the recently launched Atlantic Immigration Pilot.
National Recruitment Manager Jodi Martell says despite many people looking for work in this province, Day and Ross is having trouble filling positions.
She adds New Brunswickers simply don’t have the required skillset.
“We have been working hard recruiting skilled workers provincially, and nationally, and we are training New Brunswickers so eventually they will be equipped,” says Martell. “But in the meantime we have labour gaps to fill in both the trucking and IT areas.”
She adds recruiting immigrants through this program is very simple.
“Staff from the provincial government have been working with us to identify, hire and support foreign workers, and in turn successful candidates will be granted, or selected for permanent residency by the federal government,” says Martell.
Martell says “we take recruitment very seriously, and we work closely with the community to help the family integrate smoothly into the neighbourhood, the schools, and we connect them with the services they need.”
The Atlantic Immigration Pilot aims to bring 2,000 skilled immigrants and their families into Atlantic Canada over the next three years.
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