From December 2015 to early 2017, the Syrian Refugee Jobs Agenda Roundtable was convened under the leadership of Senator Ratna Omidvar, with a goal to increase Syrian refugees’ access to employment opportunities that utilize the talent and skills they bring to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The Roundtable of employers, employment and immigrant […]
Hire Immigrants is excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website. Hire Immigrants is a global hub for employer best practices in immigrant employment. Featuring a brand new look and up-to-date content, we hope you will find it easier to navigate and find what you are looking for quickly and efficiently. As […]
“I’m in Canada – next step is to find a job”- Wael Haddad, Lending Service Officer, Scotiabank, arrived as a Syrian refugee in January 2016 In a competitive job market and being new to Canada, many Syrian refugees, like other skilled newcomer professionals, find it difficult to secure a good job and connect to […]
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Job candidates with Asian names and Canadian qualifications are less likely to be called for interviews than their counterparts with Anglo-Canadian names even when they have a better education, a new study has found. Using data from a recent large-scale Canadian employment study that examined interview callback rates for resumés with Asian and Anglo names, researchers found […]
Ryan Flanagan, CTV What appeal could quiet, rural Wellington County possibly hold for people from foreign countries? That’s what Tom Lusis thought when he walked into a job fair for new Canadians earlier this year. Like other rural parts of the province, they’ve been grappling with a problem unfamiliar elsewhere – very few people in […]
Peter Vandor and Nikolaus Franke, Harvard Business Review What do Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull), Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), and Sergey Brin (Google) have in common? Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience. Their stories are prominent examples of a widespread pattern. In the […]
By Monique Scotti, Global News The Canadian government should be bringing in more skilled immigrants if it hopes to grow the economy in the coming decades, a new report suggests, and at least one expert says that strategy makes “complete sense.” Canada definitely has the capacity to welcome 50 per cent more new arrivals in […]
We are pleased to announce that Hire Immigrants is joining the Magnet network. Magnet is a not-for-profit social innovation founded by Ryerson University, in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. It is a collaborative hub of post-secondary institutions, not-for-profits, government, labour, and industry partners working towards one common goal: to address unemployment and under-employment of […]
By Bill de Blasio, Anne Hidalgo and Sadiq Khan, New York Times World leaders are gathering in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, and at the top of their agenda sits a refugee crisis that has reached a level of urgency not seen since World War II. The United Nations Summit for […]