{"id":2689,"date":"2019-11-20T20:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/iis\/?page_id=2689"},"modified":"2019-11-20T20:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:13:15","slug":"recruiting-talent-to-prince-edward-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/research\/recruiting-talent-to-prince-edward-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Talent to Prince Edward Island (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recruiting Talent to Prince Edward Island Survey: <br \/><\/strong>Build a Career. Create a Life.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/files\/2019\/11\/Report-cover-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2019\/11\/Report-cover-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2019\/11\/Report-cover.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, in a bid to create evidence-based policy-making around the theme of repatriation, the Prince Edward Island Department of Workforce and Advanced Learning contracted the <a href=\"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/about-iis\">Institute of Island Studies<\/a> to undertake a research project to determine the opportunities for and barriers to Islanders returning home. This report is the result of that research.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeedwardisland.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/recruiting_talent_to_pei_report.pdf\">Download report (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/islandsrevival.org\/recruiting-talent-to-prince-edward-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article about the project and report (<em>IslandsRevival.org)<\/em><\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/islandsrevival.org\/recruiting-talent-to-prince-edward-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">by IIS Coordinator Dr. Laurie Brinklow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ABOUT<br \/>Individuals who have lived on or visited Prince Edward Island (PEI) previously but now live elsewhere represent an important component of a comprehensive population strategy. In order to develop effective, evidence-based policy that supports the repatriation of these individuals to PEI, it is important to better understand why these individuals moved away and what they see as the opportunities and possible barriers to returning to PEI. The results of the survey described in this Report, entitled&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.princeedwardisland.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/recruiting_talent_to_pei_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Recruiting Talent to PEI Survey: Build a Career. Create a Life<\/a><\/em>, provide some of this evidence. Released in May 2018, the Report and the survey of these Islanders were completed under the auspices of the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>METHOD<br \/>The survey was designed and administered in partnership with the Department of Workforce and Advanced Learning. It consisted of 26 questions and was sent electronically to alumni from the University of Prince Edward Island, Holland College, and the College de l&#8217;\u00cele. The link to the survey was also posted to the WorkPEI Facebook page and the Institute of Island Studies digital newsletter. For the purposes of this survey, an Islander was defined as \u201csomeone who has lived or visited the Island but currently does not live on PEI.\u201d By the March 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018, cutoff date, 683 responses had been received. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUMMARY OF RESULTS<br \/>Detailed responses and interpretations of the results are contained within the body of the Report. The following provides some highlights of those results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Despite living away now, the lives of\nparticipants often intersected in multiple ways with Prince Edward Island,\nincluding growing up here, going to school and working here (Q1).<\/li><li>The most significant reason for leaving\nPEI, selected by almost 70% of participants, was to search for work (Q3).<\/li><li>More than 80% of respondents expressed\nan interested in moving back to PEI, with one-quarter saying they were\n\u201cextremely interested\u201d in moving back. This suggests a strong motivation for\nreturning if the conditions were right (Q4). <\/li><li>Lifestyle\n(79.3%) and finding a better work-life balance (48.5%) were the main reasons\nfor a potential move back to PEI. Family reunification was also important at\n60.5% (Q5).<\/li><li>For\nthose who expressed an interest in moving back, 20% said they anticipated this\nmove within the next year, while almost half of the respondents said it would\nbe more than five years from now. <\/li><li>A\ntotal of 83% of respondents said that employment-related reasons were impeding\ntheir return to the Island. The significance of this response is strengthened\nby the fact that respondents could have chosen multiple answers to this\nquestion, but none of the other options were selected by more than 20% of the\nparticipants (Q7). <\/li><li>When\nthose who had expressed an interest in moving back to PEI were asked more\nspecifically about how they could be assisted in making this move, economic\nreasons were still important (e.g., a job offer at 80.3% and salary\nconsiderations at 70.7%), but housing was also selected by more than 40% of the\nrespondents (Q9). <\/li><li>A\ntotal of 16.5% of all respondents had either applied for or been contacted\nabout a job on PEI within the past year (Q10).<\/li><li>Almost\neveryone (97%) who participated in this survey still feels connected in some\nway to PEI with almost 70% saying that they feel either fairly or extremely\nconnected to the Island (Q12). They stay connected primarily by visiting during\nthe summer (72.1%) or communicating with family on the Island (78.9%) (Q13).<\/li><li>The\nmajority of respondents had been away for more than 10 years (55%), are female\n(59.2%) and are at least 45 years of age (33.7%). Interestingly, the second\nlargest group of respondents (20%) fell in the 25 to 29 year age cohort (Q15,\nQ16).<\/li><li>Most\nof the respondents were highly educated, with 38% having obtained a Master\u2019s or\nPhD degree and another 46% indicating that they had obtained a Bachelor\u2019s\ndegree (Q18).<\/li><li>Most\nparticipants (69.7%) were currently employed full-time and only 7.4% were\nretired (Q19). Of those employed, the main occupations were white-collar (e.g.,\neducation, law, social, community or government services,\nhealth, and business\/administration) (Q20). Household income levels were\nrelatively high in comparison to the average in Canada and PEI (Q21). <\/li><li>Most\nof the respondents were from Ontario, with 34.2% being from Toronto or the rest\nof southern Ontario. Alberta was the second largest group of respondents at\n15.3%, with Nova Scotia being the third largest group at 15% (Q22). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Two\nopen-ended questions allowed respondents the opportunity to more fully express\ntheir opinions about why they might want to move back to PEI (Q23) and what\nmight be preventing them from making this move (Q24). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As suggested in some of the closed-ended questions, the\npredominant reasons for a possible move back to the Island revolved around\nfamily and lifestyle. Many raised the sentiment that PEI was a good place to\nraise a family and had a pace that allowed for a better quality of life, a\nbetter work\/life balance and lower stress levels. The lower cost of living or\naffordability was also an important theme. One of the most poignant responses\nwas as follows, \u201c<em>The\nair. The love. My family. His family. Our son&#8217;s family. Quiet. Fewer\nchains\/more mom and pop shops. Red earth. Gentle breezes. Home. Always and\nforever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked to provide more details about what might be preventing\nthem from moving back to PEI it should not be surprising to find that\nrespondents most often cited a lack of suitable, well-paying jobs and how it is\ndifficult to complete with Islanders already on PEI for the jobs that are\navailable. Some respondents cited a concern about adequate health care and\nothers felt that an attitude of parochialism and lack of tolerance to diversity\nwere impeding their decision to return. The duality regarding a possible return\nis expressed well by this respondent: \u201c<em>The things that make PEI so appealing are also obstacles to\nmoving back. I love that PEI is small and rural, but that also means fewer job\nopportunities in my field.\u201d <\/em>The difficult choice\nfacing Islanders living away is perhaps best expressed by this participant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\nleft PEI because I had to, not because I wanted to. Living in rural PEI as a\nwoman the only choice you have is to move or become someone&#8217;s wife. There are\nno other options. I wanted a future and an education, so I had to leave the\nIsland. Even if I worked and lived in Charlottetown, I feel like my employment\nopportunities were very low compared to other provinces. I want to move back\nthough as that is where my roots are and my family still is. 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