‘Now Hiring Hamilton’ seeks to help small, medium-sized businesses with worker shortages
Global News
A new initiative from the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and Mohawk College is looking to help local small and medium-sized companies have more success finding workers.
Hamilton’s small and medium-sized businesses are getting some help tackling worker shortages.
Mohawk College and the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch Now Hiring Hamilton, a provincially- and federally-funded initiative that looks to help those companies with fewer resources improve their long-term staffing outcomes and find people to work in difficult-to-fill positions.
Keanin Loomis, the Chamber’s president and CEO, said Hamilton’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential to the city’s economic landscape, but they often face challenges finding workers with the right skills.
“Historically, SMEs in Hamilton have had limited resources and ability to maintain the successful recruitment, onboarding, and retainment of employees … largely due to a lack of human resources staffing,” he said during a media availability on Wednesday.
“And I know that just from our own organization, where I’m not just the CEO, but I’m the top human resource professional as well.”
According to a literature review compiled for the project, about 95 per cent of Hamilton businesses fall into the category of an SME, with fewer than 50 employees.
The review also cites a report that found the city has lost about 46,000 jobs since the beginning of the pandemic, a decrease of about 36 per cent.
During the first phase of the project, which began last April, it was determined that the most in-demand entry-level positions that were most difficult to fill were jobs like material handlers, customer and information service representatives, sales and accountant representatives, and labourers in manufacturing, processing and utilities.
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