{"id":73486,"date":"2021-01-18T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T20:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=73486"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T20:56:38","slug":"quebec-government-to-spend-19m-on-recruiting-training-it-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/quebec-government-to-spend-19m-on-recruiting-training-it-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec government to spend $19M on recruiting, training IT professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Quebec government hopes to attract some 4,500 workers to the IT sector. (Pascal Lauener\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Quebec government is investing $19 million into educating, recruiting and training workers for the\u00a0information technology sector\u00a0\u2014 a sector that has been stretched even thinner by the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With an unprecedented number of people working from home, IT specialists have been in higher demand than ever before. The sector was already suffering from a workforce shortage before COVID-19 made landfall, with 6,500 positions left unfilled.<\/p>\n

The government’s most recent investment aims to fill roughly 4,500 of those posts, ensuring some 900 companies are able to staff crucial IT roles.<\/p>\n

Labour Minister Jean Boulet said the funding will also help retrain those who’ve lost their jobs since March.<\/p>\n

“During the pandemic, many young people, women, immigrants lost their jobs,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They’ve become extremely affected by the pandemic, and we have to help them get re-qualified or upscale their capacity.”<\/p>\n

The recruitment campaign began in December under the motto “On cherche du monde<\/em>,” or in English, “We are looking for people.”<\/p>\n

Of the investment, $15 million will go toward offering financial support to businesses in the IT sector, assisting with recruitment outside of Quebec, according to a government announcement.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Labour Minister Jean Boulet says many people lost their jobs during the pandemic and need a fresh start. (Sylvain Roy Roussel\/CBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Another $4 million will help unemployed people get into short-term training programs at the college or university level. That investment is expected to give 500 people a career boost.<\/p>\n
The initiative is in addition to other actions aimed at attracting workers into fields such as visual effects, computer animation and video games, the province said.<\/p>\n

‘Upsurge in career changes’<\/h2>\n

This funding comes at a time when an increasing number of people, many well into their career, are changing fields, according to Pier-Samuel Goulet-C\u00f4t\u00e9, admissions counsellor at Coll\u00e8ge O’Sullivan de Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

“What we have noticed since the start of the pandemic is really an upsurge in career changes,” he said.<\/p>\n

His school has hybrid classrooms set up that allow students to come in person or attend classes from home.<\/p>\n

“I would say that we are riding the wave since we offer a lot of online training,” Goulet-C\u00f4t\u00e9 told Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n

He said a large proportion of students who enrol in IT programs are mid-career workers who want to upgrade or simply change jobs.<\/p>\n

For a 45-year-old who has a career, a house, a car, and children, it’s not easy to dedicate so much time to schooling, Goulet-C\u00f4t\u00e9 said, but this government program could help.<\/p>\n

If companies want to recruit and retain IT professionals in the current job market, he said, they will have to do their part by offering training and skill development.<\/p>\n

CBC<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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