GREENWOOD — A call centre could be coming to the Greenwood area.

Nova Scotia Business Inc. is about to conduct a labour survey, said Tonya O’Quinn, a development officer who manages the call centre sector for the provincial business agency.

"We’ll be doing a blind ad there next week," she said. The ad will call for expressions of interest to see how many people submit resumes and their qualifications.

A sufficient labour force "will be the key to establishing a call centre in Greenwood," she said. "It’s very common for us to look at a region, do a bit of a test and see if there is an available workforce. It’s . . . part of our strategy."

The labour survey will determine if the area is big enough and what kind of centre it could support.

There are over 50 call centres in Nova Scotia, employing 19,000 people.

"We’re running out of space quickly in the province," said Ms. O’Quinn. "So Greenwood is an area that we’ve looked at."

She said there is available commercial space for a call centre here. And with 14 Wing Greenwood, the community has a large potential market of employees, with spouses of military men and women.

"We’re just in the very basic, introductory, exploratory stages, to determine whether or not it could hold a site," she added.

She said the agency has looked at a couple of potential sites in the Annapolis Valley but is focusing on Greenwood at the moment...

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