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Updated: Fri Feb. 06 2009 17:50:20
It may
seem hard to believe considering the numbers, but there are still jobs out
there for the taking and some companies are considered recession-proof.
One
sector in particular is continuing to grow bigger as we grow older.
Students at the BCIT School of Diagnostics and Advanced Practice are still
practicing on classmates, but the hard work will pay off.
"There's certainly a major demand for graduates from the medical radiography
program," says the school's Bill Dow.
There's big demand for all health care workers. In fact, it's the single
biggest growth sector in Canada.
Many
of the employers in the health industry are talking to the students before
graduation and arranging employment before graduation," says Dow.
The
situation is the same in the nursing industry. "We
also have employers in coming and doing recruitment -- they bring pizzas and
things for the student and give them information about working in Vancouver
Coastal Health or Fraser Health," says Katherine Fukuyama from the Vancouver
Community College School of Nursing.
While
they're hiring in health care, other industries are laying off. B.C. lost
35,000 jobs in January alone, and analysts predict it's just going to get
worse as the year goes on.
 Still,
one recruiter says there are still jobs to be had.
"We're
seeing sales positions, and operations positions, manufacturing, technical
positions -- both in government and the private sector," says Henry Goldbeck
from Goldbeck Recruiting Inc. It
appears the key to landing those jobs is standing out from the crowd of job
seekers. "All
things being equal, the technical skills are the same -- it's usually the
person with more forthright personality," says Goldbeck. "Someone who
convinces the employer they can do they job is going to be hired."
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Shannon Paterson
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