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World Skills Employment Centre was delighted to host a dinner for seven participants from the One Young World Summit 2016! Delegates came from India, Brazil, Paris, London, Quebec City and Australia. It was a pleasure to listen to the voices of these youth and learn how this summit is impacting and influencing their minds in

At World Skills we listen to our clients’ needs and strive to provide the most up-to-date and relevant workplace language skills. We are very happy to announce some important changes thanks to your feedback! Our Oral Communication Skills for Professionals course and our Writing for Professional Purposes courses have now been combined into one course.

 

Congratulations to the mentees and mentors!   On July 28th, we celebrated at the Wrap Up Event of the 6th Annual TD VISMIN O.N.E. – WORLD SKILLS Mentorship Program which brought together all of the volunteers, saff, mentees and mentors who have been working hard to support the mentees in reaching their career objectives. World Skills

On July 27, 2016 World Skills Employment Centre, the Lebanese and Arab Social Services Agency (LASSA) and the Catholic Centre for Immigrants (CCI) held a meeting to officially lunch the Roadmap to Employment for Refugees program, a one-year project funded by United for Refugees and Community Foundations of Ottawa. This program will assist refugees and

How Ruth found confidence – and her dream job   For Ruth, immigrating to Canada in 2002 was an opportunity to better her family’s life, especially for her young son. “Growing up in China, the competition in school was too much,” Ruth says. “I did not want him to grow up with that pressure, and