“The number of employers at the expo is increasing because everyone’s having a challenging time finding that employee,” he said. “They know that, so they need to be in front of them.”

Employers are still picky cuz there's a lot of people looking for jobs. We need to open up wages so that employers will start to compete for employees. They're probably a lot of qualified English-speaking employees. It's just that employers want them to also speak Japanese or Chinese.