Canadian Business | Managing | Waterloo Wants You

Y bueno… si aqui no pasa nada…

Of all the problems a city can face, not having enough employees is a pretty good one to have – in the short term at least – as long as everything else seems to be running smoothly. It means the city’s economic base is growing, a victim of its own success. But such a shortage will eventually turn away new businesses in search of larger labour pools. So when a group of 50 Waterloo, Ont.-area tech companies – some of them competitors with each other – realized there were some 800 job openings among them, they banded together with local government and industry associations and held their own Silicon Valley recruitment drive, featuring Molson Canadian beer, Dare maple cookies – and well-paying jobs aplenty.

Canadian Business | Managing | Waterloo Wants You