Funding annouced to attract skilled workers to Kamloops region
KAMLOOPS — As the current workforce in ages, it’s estimated there will 35,000 job openings in the region by the year 2025. This morning, Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone, gathered with stakeholders from the City, Venture Kamloops, Community Futures, and private industry to make a significant funding announcement regarding these job vacancies, and how we’ll be able to fill them.
For Greg Munden, finding qualified skilled employees to work in his Kamloops shop isn’t as easy as it once was.
“It’s been, over the last few years, getting progressively harder to attract… red seal mechanics, or professional truck drivers. Kind of anybody in the trades,” Munden told CFJC Today.