Monthly Archives: May 2016

Employment is key to the successful settlement of all newcomers, including refugees. More often than not, employers find that hiring newcomers is a solid return on their human resources investment. Nomz founder and CEO Jana Al Zaibak credits her refugee employees with her business success. Jana Al Zaibak, founder and CEO of Nomz Based in Toronto, […]

By Catherine Solyom in the Montreal Gazette When you’re in last place in North America in the race to integrate immigrants to the work force, there’s nowhere to go but up. That seems to be the attitude of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, as it released its study on immigrants’ career advancement. Immigrants: Getting […]

By Ryan Mead in Talent Management and HR Being the head of your management board requires many responsibilities. The biggest being the “beekeeper.” The one who tames all the daily chaos to keep the front-end of business looking neat. While this is a handful in itself, maintaining or creating diversity of thought can’t come last. […]

By Global News Every weekend vendors from over thirty countries set up at the Fredericton cultural market bringing international flavours from around the world to the New Brunswick capital. As Global’s Jeremy reports, this weekend two Syrian refugees joined in and launched their very own business just months after arriving to Canada. Watch.

By the Open Political Economy Network Investing one euro in welcoming refugees can yield nearly two euros in economic benefits within five years. That is a key finding of OPEN’s new report – to our knowledge, the first comprehensive, international study of how refugees can contribute to advanced economies – which is co-published with Tent, a foundation whose mission […]