| Maximizing 2010-related employment and skills opportunities in B.C.
Saturday, June 19, 2004, Vancouver Sun
Tourism, retail and construction are the three sectors expected to experience the greatest employment growth from the Olympic Games in Vancouver and related projects during 2004-2015. Together, they represent more than one-third (or 400,000 job openings) of total employment growth (i.e. base and incremental) during this period; and almost 60 per cent (or over 77,000 openings) of incremental growth.
Each sector will experience growth in a range of occupational categories because of the Games, concurrent infrastructure projects, and base growth. Managers and supervisors will be in high demand across these sectors, with other growth areas being in a combination of higher skill level (e.g. chefs & cooks, carpenters) and lower skilled jobs (e.g. food counter attendants, cashiers, trades helpers).
Tourism, retail and construction sectors share challenges such as improving their image to job-seekers, recruitment and retention, competition from other sectors, capacity for training among smaller operations, and shortages of managers and supervisors.
They also share opportunities to tap under-utilized labour pools, to form partnerships and alliances with educators and trainers, and to introduce innovative human resource practices.
- Manufacturing will experience 12,000 person-years of additional employment or 9.2 per cent of the total impact of the 2010 Winter Games and three major projects.
- Technology is not a separate industry category in employment statistics, but is parts of Communication, Professional Business Services, Computer/Consulting/Other Business Services, and Manufacturing categories. All totaled, technology employment will experience significant incremental growth from 2010 Games and in base growth.
- Transportation is projected to experience more than 61,000 job openings during 2003-2015, including anticipated demand for 37,749 motor vehicle and transit drivers-demand that RKA suggests will be particularly critical in the year 2010.
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