Like Corporate America, Cannabis Industry Struggles To Fill Jobs

Is supplementary unemployment assistance the reason employers are having a difficult time hiring? Or are there are factors at play? Kelsea Appelbaum, head of community partnerships at Vangst, offers some answers.

Kelsea Appelbaum: The country is still bouncing back from the pandemic, and one of the lasting effects when it comes to employment is that low-paying roles are still hard to fill because of the unemployment benefits that individuals are receiving.

The majority of the roles in cannabis continue to be highly competitive with a high barrier of entry.

Cannabis companies understand that in order to attract top-tier talent, they need to help make the transition into our growing industry easier, with benefits being a large factor in this.

I’m the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater,” published by Allworth Press/Skyhorse in August 2008; “An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps,” originally published by Mazo Publishers in January 2017; and “Sentenced to Shakespeare,” a contemporary young adult/crossover novel published by Sunbury Press/Milford House Press in 2019.

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