BE Report on Recruitment in the Skilled Construction Trades

There are crucial challenges in recruiting young people to skilled construction trades and related jobs. Many of these occupations are facing existing and projected increasing shortages of new entrants. The amount of these shortages will vary among the seven sectors comprising the construction industry depending on the health of the economy, demographic shifts including immigration, and government policy. Yet the inadequate supply of new entrants to skilled construction work is a structural trend that is projected to continue well into the next decade. Skilled trades and other labour shortages in Ontario’s construction industry are in part a function of the amount and pace of retirements in this sector. However, they also result from too few young people entering these skilled jobs, despite compensation that ranges from above average to very attractive, and high satisfaction in these occupations.

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