World Skills For Employers
Discover how your business can hire skilled immigrants and play a key role in successfully integrating them into our economy and society.
Contact us by emailing employer @ ottawa-worldskills.org
World Skills is your Strategic Partner
We collaborate with employers in all sectors. We offer them an array of services to meet their recruitment needs, and support their goal of being a diverse and inclusive employer.
We help them enhance their ability to recruit, hire, onboard and retain skilled and talented internationally trained professionals. We do this through a variety of free services including:
- Pre-screening candidates
- Hosting recruitment and “meet the employer” events to meet potential hires
- Organizing cross-cultural communications training sessions
- Providing on-the-job language training
- Creating, co-developing and co-delivering mentorship programs
Save Costs and Grow your Reputation
By partnering with World Skills, employers benefit from greatly reduced human resourcing costs and ready access to highly skilled immigrants. This increases the organization’s appeal to other internationally trained professionals, and potential for reaching new markets at home and abroad.
Hiring Newcomers Makes Good Business Sense
Ottawa employers are becoming increasingly hiring newcomers to meet their labour market requirements. Luckily, on average of 6,000 newcomers a year settle in Ottawa, providing employers with a steadily growing pool of skilled, highly educated and talented candidates to fill their workforce needs.
- Newcomers comprise 27% of Ottawa’s labour force with an undergraduate degree, 37% with a graduate degree, and 57% of candidates with an earned doctorate.
- Newcomers bring international experience, intelligence, global perspectives and specialized strengths and skill sets, and often business connections.
World Skills’ Pool of Internationally Trained Candidates
There are more than 3,500 internationally trained individuals in our inventory ready for your full-time, part-time, contract or internship positions in accounting, administration, architecture, business management, construction, customer service representatives, education, engineering, finance, hospitality, human resources, IT, research and development, sales, science, social science and tourism – and more.
Targeted Recruitment Events
Targeted recruitment events are hosted by World Skills at no cost to employers, for a variety of sectors, professions, and areas of expertise. These events enable employers to meet numerous talented newcomers in one place and at one time, optimizing their recruitment budgets and efficiency.
Here are some of our popular programs for Employers:
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Want to Learn More About our Services?
Let us guide you in the right direction to find highly skilled newcomers for your business.
Send an email to employer @ ottawa-worldskills.org or fill out the form on our contact page.
