WIN-WIN – Hiring Great People for Great Jobs: News

This summer, when Trade Facilitation Office Canada (TFO Canada) needed to quickly hire experienced project managers with expertise in international trade and development in developing countries for newly-funded programs, it found them at World Skills Employment Centre. In fact, they found two! And both in record time. TFO Canada and World Skills are natural partners.

By Olga Kiseliova There are many hoops that newcomers have to jump through on their way to establishing a career in a new country. Lack of a network is one of them. It might be very difficult to build a network from scratch, but there is a light in the end of the tunnel. Small

  ANCWT is a bridging program for new immigrants and Syrian refugee women who have technical skills in engineering, technology, computer science and information technology from their home country. To find out more, visit www.ancwt.ca.

  What a terrific piece CBC Ottawa News created about our Retail Targeted Recruitment Event! Thanks, CBC Ottawa, for supporting the work we do to connect immigrants to employment. Find out what you missed by forwarding to 12:20 on the video. http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1145065027845

  In our previous newsletter, we highlighted some successful strategies to effectively recruit, on-board an retain newcomer talent. In today’s blog post, we would like to introduce five successful strategies for incorporating international talent into your workplace that we hope will serve as a “stepping stones” for ongoing discussion in your workplace: Post jobs through World Skills Employment

  In August 2017, a group of employers and staff in the non-profit sector met to discuss strategies to effectively recruit, on-board, manage and retain newcomers in the workplace. Here are some tips to consider: RECRUIT SKILLED NEWCOMERS Job Posting Use clear and simple language in preparing a job posting – do not require that a

  Our Executive Director, Mengistab Tsegaye, has been recognized for his commitment and passion, and for the difference he makes in the lives of newcomers. The Honourable Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ottawa Centre, presented Mengis with the #OC150 Award which recognizes “50 women, 50 men and 50 youth working to build our community.” Congratulations, Mengis! Your leadership is

  The first thought which comes to mind when it comes to job search in Canada is networking – building connections. The synonym for networking comes out to be ‘Interacting’ which is much easier to understand. Interacting does not seem to be a difficult task when we know that we are good at speaking one

Congratulations to Business Development Canada, The Federal Internship for Newcomers Program and TD Canada Group for receiving Employer Champion Awards at World Skills Employment Centre’s 20th Anniversary Celebration .  The following is the script from Magdalene Cooman, Director of Employer Engagement, about the awards and how employers were selected for each award.  The awards were presented to the employers by Mengistab

EDC launched their crowd-funding campaign Giving in our backyard with the goal of  raising $10,000 “to help 50 newcomers receive language training, cultural competency building, and job search support” through World Skills. It comes as no surprise that EDC attained their target. Thank you to each and every one of EDC’s generous employees.