Bill Graveland
Michelle Benz, seen in an undated handout photo, thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school to improve her chances of getting a new career after being laid off six years ago in Calgary s oil and gas sector. However, after earning a bachelor of urban planning she is frustrated that the job market in her chosen field has dried up due to COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Michelle Benz, MANDATORY CREDIT May 01, 2021 - 7:00 AM
CALGARY - Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago.
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University of Calgary students have wrapped up their classes and are in the final days of exams before the summer break, but many don’t know what the summer will hold for them. With the pandemic’s third wave hitting Alberta hard, students are struggling to find any kind of work regardless of their field of study.
This is no different than last summer where nearly one-third of surveyed U of C students said they couldn’t find any work at all. Another 12 per cent said they had opportunities cancelled due to the pandemic.
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CALGARY Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago.
She completed her bachelor of urban planning at the University of Calgary, but she’s frustrated that the job market in her chosen field has dried up due to COVID-19.
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“I felt like I should increase my personal skills to give myself a better shot in the labour market and now I’ve graduated to the worst job market in my lifetime,” said Benz, who’s turning 31.
Relatively bleak: Post secondary students face rising debt and few summer jobs
by Bill Graveland, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Posted May 1, 2021 11:22 am EDT
A shopper walks at the Eaton Centre in Toronto, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. More major Canadian retailers joined the effort to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak by temporarily closing their stores or tweaking operations with one grocery store chain reducing hours.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Natasha Hermann
CALGARY Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago.
She completed her bachelor of urban planning at the University of Calgary, but she’s frustrated that the job market in her chosen field has dried up due to COVID-19.