The Cadre 
     
    
   
   
    
     ¢ 17 March 1998 
     
    
   
   
    
     Labour market expo 1998 
     
    
   
   
    
     BY LUKE LEUNES 
     
    
   
   
    
     Most UPEI students will 
     
     finish this term and immedi- 
     
     ately will begin the job hunt. 
     
     The hard part here is finding 
     
     employment. Traditionally, 
     
     methods of seeking jobs have 
     
     included looking in the news- 
     
     paper, going to Human Re- 
     
     sources or relying on word of 
     
     mouth, but finding the job is still 
     
     a challenge. 
     
    

    
     Last Wednesday, March 
     
     11, the Prince Edward Hotel 
     
     Ballroom in the CP Hotel 
     
     hosted Labour Market Expo 
     
     98, aimed at helping students 
     
     and youth make contact with 
     
     employers and to get career 
     
     information. The expo also 
     
     operated as a networking op- 
     
     portunity, allowing students to 
     
     talk to local, national and even 
     
     international employers. 
     
    

    
     The intent was a good 
     
     one, but some felt that the jobs 
     
     represented a narrow field. For 
     
     example, several banks were 
     
     present at the exhibition, and 
     
     several of the careers were 
     
     mainly managerial positions re- 
     
     quiring at least a degree. 
     
    

    
     Enterprise Rent-a-Car 
     
     was on hand, looking for indi- 
     
     viduals that had any type of 
     
     degree to fill the starting posi- 
     
     tion asa manager at any one of 
     
     there locations. Enterprises's 
     
     Stephanie Dziubek said that 
     
     this is part of the business lad- 
     
     der. 
     
    

    
     “The goal for new em- 
     
     ployees is to become a branch 
     
     manager,” she said. 
     
    

    
     Many of the people staff- 
     
     ing the various booths men- 
     
     tioned that if individuals had 
     
     any type of degree, they could 
     
     get a job with that employer. 
     
     This excluded a high number 
     
     of students who will only be 
     
     looking for summer employ- 
     
     ment. 
     
    

    
     The Tourism Information 
     
     Association of PEI (TIAPEI) 
     
     and Youth Employment Strat- 
     
     egy do offer options for stu- 
     
     dents trying to make some 
     
     money for next year’s tuition. 
     
     They deal mostly with sea- 
     
     sonal employment. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Youth Employment 
     
     Strategy is another organiza- 
     
     tion that has been around for 
     
     some years now. It opens 
     
     around April at the Ellis Broth- 
     
     ers’ Mall in the Human Re- 
     
     source Center, and can fea- 
     
    
   
   
    
     low them to further a career in 
     
     the field they choose,” 
     
     Katherine Gallant, a studentat 
     
     UPEI working with HRDC . 
     
     The provincial govern- 
     
     ment is also a good employer, 
     
     giving work to 240 students a 
     
    
   
   
    
     fall and the second in mid 
     
     spring. 
     
    

    
     Some graduating 
     
     CompuCollege students were 
     
     among those in attendance at 
     
     the Expo. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mary Chesson com- 
     
    
   
   
    
     adequate, as it featured 
     
     “mostly government pro- 
     
     grams” 
     
    

    
     Tommy McDonald said 
     
     that the even featured “not a 
     
     lot of ITI business...It was 
     
     helpful for information on ITI.” 
     
    

    
     With an increase of 20 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ture anything from dishwasher year. They recruit at universi- mented, “it was worth it... It : 
     
     to management positions. ties and colleges, and have hadenough information for job cate in ae on 
     
     _ “Thestudentlabourmar- positions open for the whole hunting.” job beoutiaie adda efamndad for 
     
     ketis very stronglocallyandis year. At UPEI they have two Jeff Gallant felt the ex- ‘students seeking employment 
     
     well suited for students to al- recruiting periods, the first in perience was perhaps less this summer. 
     
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