Every month, ENW holds two events with employers in specific sectors: a Recruitment event and a Coaching event. In October it was NGOs. The Recruitment event featured OXFAM and Cooperation Canada gave the coaching session to a group of ENW women with relevant backgrounds who had expressed interest in working for NGOs. Cooperation Canada
Quick. Think of an NGO (non-governmental organization). Chances are that OXFAM sprang to mind, and for good reason. It is one of the best-known NGOs in the world (founded in 1942 in England as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief). So, when a large number of women in World Skills’ Empowering Visible Minority
The Federal Internship for Newcomers Program – Youth Initiative (FIN-YESS) at World Skills Employment Centre is working on a new research study to: Explore the opportunities and constraints to young newcomer professionals’ employment in the Canadian public service Assess if new strategies are needed to promote the Canadian public service as an employer of choice for youth
August 17, 2022. Did you know that the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre – often imply called “PQ” – is the largest CHC in Ontario? It employs over 350 people working in dozens of programs from medical clinics to childcare and “system navigation” to employment assistance. “In an organization this large and diverse, there are
AUGUST 16, 2022. “We are hiring all the time!” exhorted Kelli Tonner, Executive Director of the South East Ottawa Community Health Centre — setting the stage for a great information and coaching session about work and careers in Ottawa’s 13 community health centres (CHCs) and community resource centres (CRCs). She was speaking to participants
On July 19th, recruiters for two of Canada’s leading renewable energy companies met with over 60 World Skills clients to explain their great opportunities and to encourage them to join their companies. Brookfield Renewable is one of the world’s largest investors in renewable energy/power employing approximately 3,000 people worldwide. Operating in a state-of-the-art, LEED-certified building,
Plug into the Electricity Industry! On April 20, two days before Earth Day, Mark Chapeski pleasantly shocked World Skills clients in a fact-filled information session on the large number and variety of career opportunities in Canada’s electricity industry – today and even more so tomorrow. Did you know, it employs well over 108,000 people today!
Do you want to work for the City? Certainly, the nearly 100 World Skills clients in the “How to get a job with the City” information session on April 19th do. So what’s stopping people? For many years, one big obstacle was the City’s antiquated job board – in HR parlance, its Applicant Tracking
It is fishing for scientists, technicians, research managers and policy analysts in the ocean of talent in Canada’s four employment equity groups: women, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and aboriginal people. Under the title “All Hands on Science”, DFO went on a month-long country-wide fishing expedition. The DFO fishers (recruiters) dropped their lines at
Red Cross TRE Tues. Oct 26, 2021 Join the largest humanitarian network in the world! This is how Elizabeth Parente-Roy pitches her job postings on LinkedIn. Elizabeth is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with the Canadian Red Cross. On Oct. 26, she brought this message to more than 20 clients in World Skills’ Empowering Visible Minority Newcomer Women (ENW) project.
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