By Cheryl Jahn

CNC job fair attracts plenty of hopefuls

Sep 10, 2024 | 2:55 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Between curious onlookers to those with a genuine interest in a future career, it was a busy day at the College of New Caledonia, where a health and wellness, as well as a recruitment fair, were underway. The RCMP were on hand for the latter.

“People are interested in how long the training is, what the salary and benefits are like, and where they might be posted if they join the RCMP, what kind of things they can expect coming out of our training academy,” explains Corporal Jennifer Cooper with the Prince George RCMP.

And the nature of the so-called “new recruit,” has evolved over the years.

“The average age of our recruit now is 29. We find many of the people applying already have families, maybe mortgages, maybe a spouse that has a career as well that they need to take into account. So the RCMP has been making a switch to taking more of that into their plan when they look at their crop of cadets and decide where they might go.”

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Rose Tohme is part of Oasis, a church-based organization that helps new immigrants with a variety of services, from job placements to housing and everything in between. She is at the college as part of the wellness side of things.

“Just to welcome them here in this city, to let them know that we are here for them. And if they need any help, they can connect with us. And we will try our best to help them and support them.”

And her organization is expanding, with more people needed to run the growing number of programs. And while the RCMP is not looking for volunteers, it, like almost every organization, is finding recruitment to be a challenge.

“This year we’re hoping to run 40 troops and 32 people through. That’ll be pretty much full for us and they’ll be represent really, really great numbers.”

As such, the national police force has had to loosen up the way they do business, given the evolving attitude toward careers.

“The RCMP has been making a switch to taking more of that into their plan when they look at their crop of cadets and decide where they might go. We’ve been running it for a couple of years where if you’re from BC and you want to come back to BC, you can. We can’t guarantee what part of the province you’ll be in, but at least you’ll be in BC.”

The Detachment is hosting a career presentation on Friday at the detachment at 6:30.