No employer is looking for a “VP, Anything”, or a “Director of Whatever Needs to Be Done.”
They’re looking for an experienced professional who can solve specific problems. When you’re thinking about moving jobs, you need to have a brief, pithy assertion of who you are and what you’re qualified to do.

Stop begging for a job because you need to pay rent. Start making an offer of value to employers, then you will get employed.

Ask yourself, Would I hire me?

If we think that we have issues with unemployment, we need only look to our neighbours next door! Albertan’s, in their infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, elected an NDP Government. Albertans have been faced with massive layoffs this year alone and the probability of more layoffs is extremely high!

I am sure that the many laid off workers in Alberta take a great deal of comfort in yesterday’s statement from Alberta’s new NDP Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd when she addressed the Canadian Association of Petroleum Land Administration luncheon at the Petroleum Club in Calgary.

Her statement regarding layoffs in Alberta?

She suggested skilled journeymen with the right credentials could move to British Columbia to find work until energy prices bounce back.

Hahaha!

So, I wonder, with the NDP doing their best to wreak havoc upon Alberta, I wonder what Justin and Co. will have to say to the rest of us as they move forward with their plans to wreak havoc upon Canada?

Will Justin suggest that we move to another country until things back bounce in Canada?

We are so screwed!

On a more positive note, if we all move to another country to look for work, we will leave far more room here in Canada for Justin’s desired influx of refugees!

On a more negative and depressing note, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), Canada’s budget watchdog says the federal government’s medium-term deficits will likely be billions of dollars higher than what was predicted in “optimistic” Liberal forecasts.

The government is on track to deliver annual shortfalls that will be as much as $10.8 billion higher than expected, the parliamentary budget office said Tuesday.

That’s $10.8 billion higher than expected, ANNUALLY!

ANNUALLY! That’s each and every year!

YIKES!

Yep, Alberta is so screwed with the premier they elected. They can blame it on the price of oil, but the reality is, the government in power gives people with money no confidence. So the economy slows even further. Big Oil company, don’t care if the economy slows down. They are ok to break even right now. They will break the people, so their wage expectations are controlled. They will break the NDP government. So that three years from now, it will go back to PC.

Alberta is just going thru, what BC went thru with Barrett, and Glen Clark. People forget, how bad things were.

Hey Hart Guy, how much did Stephen Harper add to our national debt?

Didn’t most of the job losses in Alberta start in Oct .Nov of 2014? When did the Alberta government get elected?

The poor right wing nut bars commenting on here must suffer from alzheimer’s or something. Because it was a very corrupt Conservative government that mismanaged Alberta into their problems.

Have you guys spoken with an Albertan lately? Do you have a clue as to what’s going on over there?

Didn’t think so!

Huh, leaves me thinking, what about the refugees?

HG:”We are so screwed!”

Obviously you are speaking for yourself and that mouse in your pocket!

Have you guys spoken with an Albertan lately? Do you have a clue as to what’s going on over there? Just got home from Ft Macmurray after a six month stint. TFW’s didn’t get to vote.Neither did workers from out of the province. If voters were so happy with how things were under the Conservatives why did they vote them out?

oldcoot, the Alberta Conservatives were definitely due for a smack upside the head, but I know a lot of Albertans who voted for change and who are now having major league voter regret! Something that I am sure in time many Justin supporters will also feel, although few will admit to it!

Today’s Throne Speech from Justin and Co….apparently it’s heavy on social policy (ie social engineering) and very light on actual economic policy! Go figure!

PrinceGeorge, do you have any intelligent thoughts or comments to share with us this evening?

Do you want to share your opinions, or do you want to stoop to silly derogatory comments?

HG:”Do you want to share your opinions, or do you want to stoop to silly derogatory comments?”

Nothing derogatory about a funny comment!

HG:”The government is on track to deliver annual shortfalls that will be as much as $10.8 billion higher than expected, the parliamentary budget office said Tuesday.”

Here comes the serious stuff: Harper’s budget is not balanced or in a surplus, it is in fact a deficit budget. Canadians just found out that Harper’s shipbuilding venture will cost many times the initial promise, meaning 15 ships not at 14 billion, but at 45 billion dollars.

Hold on to your hats, more revelations are coming!

BTW, some of your comments are just plain fearmongering!

“Canadians just found out that Harper’s shipbuilding venture will cost many times the initial promise”

There were early indications of that underestimation. In fact, as with all such huge projects, I believe it rests with the administrators and not the policy makers on Parliament Hill.

Read this article from February 2013, almost three years ago. It speaks about the cutting back of military specifications in order to try to cut costs. Also a norm.

Bringing a ship building industry back to Canada seems laudable on the face of it. But is it? Who has done the calculation and where can we see it. We cannot do everything in a trading world. What should we take on and what should we leave others to do? Where is that strategy available to see? Is it a national secret?

news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-shipbuilding-program-costs-under-estimated-by-more-than-1-billion-budget-watchdog-says

I appreciate your comments but since apparently nothing made it past Harper without his explicit approval and nod to go ahead I find it hard to believe that administrators and policy makers can be blamed for the discrepancies. You may of course be correct in your assessment but it certainly would not fit the long established pattern of the last decade.

The throne speech mentioned among other things no more omnibus bills, no more prorogations, electoral reform and no more pro-government propaganda paid for by the taxpayers. That is all good news (to me) and I add that the un-muzzling of government scientists all by itself was sufficient reason (for me) to welcome a change of government, any change. I do not hang my hat on the Liberals exclusively. Even if the NDP had prevailed it would have been welcomed by me and a very large number of Canadians.

Un muzzling of government scientists, I always get a chuckle out of that piece of misdirection. Scientists in an uni, taxpayer money, cannot speak without getting the gracious off their department head. You okay with that PG?

“electoral reform”, that’s about as hilarious as un-muzzling government scientists. Some committee gets to recommend who might be a suitable Senator, but the Prime Minister still has the final say.

I’ve little use for Christy Clark and the BC Liberals, but even she rejects that notion as the fallacy it is, and wants sonny boy to fix the Senate properly or fold it. At the rate junior’s going it’s not going to take very long for the public to realise they’ve elected style with no substance.

Speaking of un-muzzling, did you see that the German equivalent to CSIS seems to have come un-muzzled all on its own? Feels it should share its collected opinions on the King and Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia directly with the German people, instead of just the German government. Maybe CSIS should just tell us everything its collecting info on, too. Don’t bother letting the government know first. Transparency, I think they call it.

wow this unemployment up statement sure got side tracked and turned into Alberta Politic issues.

Anyways since we are on that topic I have to agree the Conservatives in Alberta mismanaged a golden opportunity over the last 20 years of oil wealth.
They could have put away much of the wealth for this rainy day which is here today!

Since we are on the topic of politics… Alberta could have followed Norway’s socialist policies which would lead to a wealthy Alberta economy even in this current oil downturn.
Instead a new NDP government takes over a province that has nothing to going for it. A damaged oil economy and broke. Even after the 20 years of over the top high flying money making economy. sad really!
I don’t see much that the NDP can do about this but I do see a complete failure of the provincial conservative government, you can add federal government to this also.
Oil is down for one reason and that’s the oil cartels policies. The governments lack of diversifying the economy and lack of fiscal conservative money management is why Alberta and Canada are in this mess.
That’s basically it plain and simple. I emphasised it that way so Hart Guy may understand.

All the Liberal voters are going to learn the hard way. Look for more unemployment, more refugees and zero economic action. Maybe you , and the old Obama voters can hang out and comfort each other?

JoeyTomato:-“Oil is down for one reason and that’s the oil cartels policies. The governments lack of diversifying the economy and lack of fiscal conservative money management is why Alberta and Canada are in this mess.”
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How’s Norway doing, Joey? Drawing down the savings account these days, what with oil prices being so depressed by the cartels, and all? How come it costs the Norwegian motorist over twice what it costs here to fill up the tank of his car, when his government runs ‘his’ oil company? Is it run like a co-op, perhaps, where he gets a patronage rebate at the end of the year to distribute the profit from all that price gouging? No? They take the money for ‘social programs’, you say? How much does the average Norwegian pay in taxes, compared to here? Must be way, way, lower, what with all that oil dough rolling in? It’s not? More than here? How can that be? How’s the ‘government’ going to diversify the economy, Joey? The only way that can happen is if there’s a market for all this diversity, no. Where’s the market? One that can pay in prices enough to recover the costs. Otherwise people are just working for nothing, aren’t they, Joey? Or are you one of those socialists that see ‘work’ itself as the desired end of all this diversification, not ‘consumption’ of whatever’s being made? Can’t very well have a ‘Worker’s Paradise’ without ‘workers’, can you? I think there’s a lot more to the story than what meets the eye comparing Alberta to Norway the way you’re trying to do.

JoeyTomato, I was going to ask you if you seriously wanted to hold Norway up as a shining example of socialism, but it looks like my esteemed Op250 colleague socredible basically asked all that I would have asked!

Yup, Norway is a shining example. I remember some time ago, when I posted current tax rates for Norway!

Comrade JoeyTomato, things are NOT so rosy in your socialist Norway!

Norway! Pfffftt!

Alberta would have had a right of centre wildrose party in power today if it’s leader didn’t betray the voters and try and fold the party for some patronage appointments in a failed government instead of holding them to account as they were elected to do.

The new ndo government is left picking up the peices of a broken economy and a broken budget. The conservatives lost all respect for farmers and paid the price for it.

Alberta is in for a tough road ahead so long as isis is selling $20 oil on the global market and the Gulf monarchies are set on killing the North American shale and oil sands industries with cheep oil. Not until the rule of law returns to Syria and Iraq will this issue be resolved.

With farm product prices way up they have an opportunity to see value created in that sector. A more sustainable sector to be basing ones future on.

Good morning JoeyTomato,

As you worship this morning at the alter of socialism and Justin, I want you to think about the fact that Justin & Co. have held the seat of power for a month now and in that short time, their spending announcements tally $2.849 Billion and NONE of that spending is in Canada! NONE!

One month in power, 2.849 Billion in spending announcements! NONE of it, not a single penny in Canada! N.O.N.E.!!

That’s basically it plain and simple. I emphasised it that way so that you may understand.

Have a great weekend!

Eagleone, aren’t Alberta farmers currently protesting in Alberta, protesting against the NDP’s “Bill 6”?

You suggest that the Conservatives lost all respect for farmers and paid the price for it. I don’t recall Alberta’s farmer ever being in the kind of uproar that they are currently in with the Notley’s new NDP Government!