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Originally Posted by YVR_Future
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I work in the industry with a hr angle. Vancouver is becoming a cheap outsourcing hub for second and third grade projects. Basically the scraps that no one wants to throw their top resources at. It is not exactly a good thing. Hardly any major projects are being moved here and the quality of the jobs and wages is naturally lack luster. Having said that getting jobs is better then nothing even if the type of jobs ensure Vancouver remains a dumping ground for second and third tier projects.
In regards to this article I think it is quite good. Except that it tip toes around a problem that is close to heart for me.
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Young Canadians want good jobs, but instead, we are steering them into underemployment and financial hardship by giving them the wrong skills and saddling them with debt.
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I agree with the first half, not so much the second half. That is because the biggest cause of underemployment and financial hardship is not Canadians having the wrong skills, its because of mass immigration suppressing wages and increasing competition for all jobs. A young Canadian engineer coming out of school is at a disadvantage to young Indian engineer coming in from India with a couple years of questionable experience and a ability to take a rock bottom wage. It very demotivating and there are plenty of Canadian engineers with high potential that have been passed over to the point that their knowledge has degraded and they have become stuck in low tier jobs that will never develop their skills. Also this leads to obvious brain drain as well of those that are smart enough and proactive enough to leave before they fall into the same trap.
For engineers you absolutely have to get into top tier work right away otherwise your talents are at risk of for ever being wasted. Once you get stuck in a low tiered job good luck, it becomes a perpetual cycle. Dont think Canadian graduates in Vancouver have it easy, its very difficult for many to get into that first important job that takes them on the right path. Here in Prague which is also a outsourcing hub (though there are some large home grown companies now) at least its easy for local engineers to get into appropriate jobs right and start honing their skills and reaching their potential. Its much much harder in Vancouver, trust me. For the reasons I mentioned.