hireimmigrants.ca

hireimmigrants.ca provides employers with interactive tools and resources to accelerate the integration of skilled immigrants into their organizations.

The hireimmigrants.ca web site provides answers to your key questions:

How can you hire skilled immigrants for your company?
Here's how you can find the resources that will lead to finding exceptional candidates, evaluating work experience, understanding education credentials and establishing programs for your company.

Why should your company hire skilled immigrants?
An outline of the business case for including skilled immigrants. Understand labour market trends and turn hiring challenges into opportunities.

Who is having success with hiring skilled immigrants?
Learn from small, medium and large companies who have benefited from hiring skilled immigrants. Share their experiences in creating and implementing practices to reduce or eliminate barriers to employment for skilled immigrants.

What are successful hiring strategies for your company?
Learn from the successful strategies of several small, medium and large companies, and access other tools such as downloadable workshops and tele-seminars.

The Resource Room is where the latest articles, most relevant research and other tools are gathered, to help you better understand the issue of skilled immigrant integration and support you in developing and implementing new policies in your organization.

Resources include:

• The hireimmigrants.ca Roadmap - a new, online resource to help employers hire and integrate skilled immigrants. Available at www.hireimmigrants.ca/roadmap, the hireimmigrants.ca Roadmap is designed to equip anyone with human resources (HR) responsibilities with strategies and tools to engage skilled immigrants more effectively at every stage of the HR lifecycle, from recruitment to integration and retention.
  
• Downloadable workshops to help you and your staff: build the internal business case; re-assess your company's recruiting process; create metrics and more
• An interactive cross-cultural interviewing tool
• Bi-weekly HR e-tips
• Monthly hour-long webinars on current and relevant topics. Download audio files profiling such topics as understanding religious accommodation; cross-cultural communication challenges and solutions; and how business communication classes can unleash the talent of your culturally diverse workforce.

Working with partners
hireimmigrants.ca also works with partner organizations to deliver a breadth of resources to better serve employers, including:

• Providing How-to HR Workshops for hiring managers. Originally created in partnership with The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. Check online for the next scheduled workshop. > Go
  
• The CASIP network of non-profit employment service agencies in the GTA that provide employment and training services for skilled immigrants; CASIP agencies also provide employers with pre-screened candidates to meet their hiring needs. Learn more about CASIP. > Go

Funding for the hireimmigrants.ca project is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.

www.hireimmigrants.ca