Re-send due to error. You may be interested in the following article. Please feel free to comment. Lee ============================== SECOND THOUGHTS Some in...
HEE HEE HEE. Did I just a see pendulum swing? Perhaps people will pay attention to us now. I'm now working with two OTI Task Forces - to see if I can pull...
"In a holdover from the high-tech boom earlier this decade, Canada has immigration provisions for seven different categories of information technology workers,...
Right. And when conditions improve in the U.S. they will abandon the Canadian operations like a hot potatoe leaving hundreds of unemployed tech workers in...
Alan, Good point... Other than waiting for the current funding to end, what is OTI, it's Membership & Leadership doing to advance the cause for Ottawa Hi-Tech...
Breaking News! As just reported in the Ottawa Business Journal, a "stunning" 80% of the laid off high tech workers in Ottawa have been unable to find jobs,...
And guess who told me about this just yesterday, quite independently, in the course of discussion about a certain idea of mine: none other than Andrew Jackson,...
... yet. A few days later and other news agencies still haven't picked up on it. Do you suppose this is because it is not a "sexy" enough news story, water...
I first got wind of this report - shortly before any messages about it appeared on Ottawahitech and quite independently, in the course of discussing a related...
From: Robert T. Chisholm As a result of sending out the November 28th 2006 e-mail detailed in my last posting - to my federal M.P. John Baird, among others - I...
I received a similar "form" letter from John Baird in response to the OTI closing letter I sent. I'll give him credit for acknowledging my letter however. I...
Interesting. While the report seems at first sight to use a satisfactory mathematical approach, I noted your comment about it apparently eliminating the...
CBC Radio One (91.5 FM) is holding a phone in show tomorrow, Thurs. July 26, 2007, on the difficulties of professionals looking for work in Canada and will...
The "keys" to landing a job in the majority of professions in Canda (and in many other countries) are "connections, connections, connnections"! It would be...
Thanks, Jeanne. It looks like the story is getting some notice in the press: From the Ottawa Citizen: Capital region clobbered by tech bust: StatsCan - Up to...
I see OBJ now has an interactive forum discussion. You may be interested in this topic: http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/289434994044933.php "....We kick...
VERY interesting! Robert T. Chisholm ... From: jgillcell To: OttawaHiTech@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:44 AM Subject: [OttawaHiTech] New...
Seems we have a looming skills shortage in the wireless industry! http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/304388224872413.php# 'It's got to be business that leads...
Too bad this report didn't get more press. It would help former tech workers explain to hiring managers those employment gaps in the resume. To this day,...
I agree. To my mind, the write-up in "The Ottawa Citizen" about this July 20th Stats Can report ("Life After High Tech") was reasonably good. However, the...
Did anyone else see this from Randall? Something that Lou Dobbs (CNN) and others in the U.S. have been preaching about for several years now has finally...
Very interesting. It reminds me of the Irishman who sat up all night wondering where the sun had gone to. Know what? It finally DAWNED on him! And now here's...
Hmmm.... regarding his first point, that companies aren't downsizing their older workers - not so, especially with telecom service providers. They are still...
Quote: "Doesn't EDS send a good chunk of their IT business (e.g. software development) to India?" I don't know, Jeanne, I haven't looked into it. The other...
Well, I'm at least glad to see that StatsCan has finally figured out what we knew already, more or less. That 80% figure helps to put it in context: that's a...
Congratulations on winning the competition and landing a permanent job!!! It's amazing how many hoops people have to jump through now to land a job in the IT...
I saw this comment on the OBJ message board: "When I got laid off back in 2001, I got 3 month severance pay for 5 years employment at that company. The EI...
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