‘I’ve applied to more than 50 jobs, didn’t get one interview’: Why job fairs are attracting massive crowds
They lineup by the hundreds, shoulder-to-shoulder, roped off around the centre court of Markham’s Markville Mall.
It’s 2:30 p.m. on a weekday afternoon. You might suspect the crowd is queued up for the newest iPhone or perhaps a video game console release, instead they’re looking for a way to put food on the table, a roof over their heads.
This is a job fair, an increasingly popular way for employers to screen large crowds of prospective employees.
With unemployment hitting highs not seen in a decade, the crowds at these recruitment events outnumber openings.
A number of such “employment” articles have run of late, all of them with photos of job fair lines. None feature any white people.
And the media never mention it at all.
Thank your local MP for murdering Canada.
