Nelson Area Human Resource Strategy
It’s time to get the employers’ perspective on what they need to be able to recruit and keep good employees. This project puts the needs of local employers front and centre.
- Jan Wright, Project Coordinator, Kootenay Career Development Society
About the Nelson Area Human Resource Strategy
Kootenay Career Development Society noticed an imbalance between skilled workers and demand. Local employers are facing challenges recruiting, training and maintaining good employees. We saw the need for a local strategy to address these challenges.
Baby boomers are retiring. Declining birth rates mean a deficit of younger workers. Workers in trades and technology are in great demand. Rural areas face their own set of unique challenges.
The solution takes collaboration. And that’s what the Nelson Area Human Resource Strategy is all about.
Our mission is to support local employers to work together to identify innovative human resource strategies to improve the community’s capacity to deal with its local labour force issues.
Our vision is to provide a plan of action for all employers that will help them with their labour market needs today and tomorrow.
Our goal is to produce a user-friendly, local “employer driven” resource guide to increase employers’ capacities to recruit, train and maintain employees.
What is the Nelson Area Human Resource Strategy?
The NAHRS is a Labour Market Partnership project funded by Service Canada. The project is administered by the Kootenay Career Development Society and serves the area bounded by:
- Slocan Valley
- Salmo
- Nelson
- North Shore
- Kaslo
- East Shore
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The Government of Canada has contributed funding to this initiative
