If you need a resolution to inspire and motivate you, consider becoming a mentor with The Mentoring Partnership. All you need to commit are 24 hours spread out over four months. Meetings can be in person, online, or over the phone and can include referrals for information interviews. When 30 per cent of mentors commit [...]
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Make mentoring your New Year’s resolution
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TRIEC is hiring a Project Coordinator for its Professional Immigrant Networks (PINs) Initiative
The Project Coordinator provides support in the coordination and tracking of program deliverables, outreach and communications, and developing and engaging the online PINs community. The Project Coordinator will have primary responsibility for the administration and maintenance of the PINs website. Applications must be submitted by email by 5:00 pm, Thursday, January 5th, 2012.
RBC Economics: Immigrant Wage and Employment Gaps Persist
Incomes of skilled immigrants could increase by as much as $30 billion if paid like Canadian-born workers
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Missed Globe and Mail’s discussion on the economic costs of under-utlizing skilled immigrant workers?
On Wednesday, December 21st on the GlobeandMail.com: Diana MacKay of the Conference Board of Canada and Elizabeth McIsaac, executive director of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council discussed the economic costs of under-utlizing skilled immigrants.
Mississauga News: Resident opens doors for newcomers
If there had been a mentoring program to help newcomers find work in their fields when she came to Canada 21 years ago, Eva Omes says she would have signed up in a heartbeat. The Polish-born architect, who now lives in Meadowvale, says it would have saved her two years of frustration.
Globe and Mail: Shortchanging immigrants costs Canada
In her home city of São Paulo, Brazil, Yane Brogiollo was a manager at Hewlett-Packard Co., where she oversaw a team of 15 database professionals. She also designed and taught courses for a local university’s MBA program. They were “wonderful” jobs, and she earned a good salary. São Paolo was crowded, though, and too big. [...]
Deadline extended for IS Awards applications and nominations
Not yet an IS Awards alumni? Watch our one minute call for entries video to learn what the awards are about, which partners are already on board and why you don’t want to miss out. The deadline for entries has been extended until 9AM Friday, December 9th, 2011.
Globe and Mail: More economic immigrants taking advantage of fast track
Steven Chase Canada is attracting increasing numbers of a new class of economic migrants, one that is already changing the face of the immigrant experience in this country. The Canadian Experience Class program fast tracks permanent residency applications for skilled foreign workers and graduate students who have spent time in Canada on temporary permits or [...]
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Globe and Mail: Productivity woes aggravated by failure to hire new immigrants
Companies that fail to capitalize on the skills of new immigrants are aggravating Canada’s productivity woes by erecting employment barriers that hamper innovation and economic growth.
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