Monthly Archives: July 2016

Integral to Canada’s economy, immigrants deserve more support

|

By John Ralston Saul, The Globe and Mail If we are honest with ourselves, we know that immigration and citizenship have never been, at their core, linked to money. Some come with finances – but most have little or none. And we have had a growing number of highly educated immigrants. But what makes our system […]

The Syrian who’s aiming to get refugees jobs in Berlin’s booming tech scene

|

From the Guardian Information technology student Hussein Shaker had only one year left of university in Aleppo when his studies were cut short by war. Moving to Berlin as a Syrian refugee, he knew nothing about the tech scene or how valuable developers like him were in the city. “It was so boring,” he says. […]

Startups and immigration: Myths, lies and half-truths

|

By Desmond Lim, Crunch Network Uber has transformed local transportation in American cities and SpaceX aims to enable Americans to travel to Mars. Oscar Health Insurance makes healthcare more accessible for Americans while ZocDoc simplifies making doctor appointments. What do these innovative companies share in common? They were all founded by at least one foreign-born […]

How Immigrants are Building Midwestern Boom Towns

|

By Sara McElmurry, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs After decades of economic decline—with the shedding of manufacturing jobs, the Midwest has grown at a rate of less than half the national average over the past 50 years—the region is now experiencing something of a business renaissance. Much of this revival can be linked back […]

Why Subtle Bias Is So Often Worse than Blatant Discrimination

|

By Eden King & Kristen Jones, Harvard Business Review Social science data shows that people are much more likely to encounter subtle forms of bias than overt ones. HR professionals no longer post signs reading “blacks need not apply,” and managers rarely catcall their female subordinates. Instead, managers might ignore the input of a woman […]

New platform seeks to match skilled refugees with SA companies looking for new ideas

|

By Luke Griffiths, The Advertiser INNOVATION has been the buzzword of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership. Lost among his jobs and growth rhetoric, however, has been that the most effective — and probably cheapest — form of innovation is available from people who don’t yet have jobs. Co-founders Anna Robson and Nirary Dacho — a Syrian […]

Syrian refugees benefit from driving test in Arabic

|

By Kashmala Fida, CBC News New Brunswick is one of many Canadian provinces welcoming Syrian refugees, to ease the transition and help them integrate the province is providing services in Arabic. The written component of the driving test is translated in Arabic and translators accompany drivers during the road test. For Mike Timani, the president […]

We Just Can’t Handle Diversity

|

By Lisa Burrell, Harvard Business Review While merit sounds like an easy, obvious filter for talent decisions, it’s anything but. We believe we know good talent when we see it, yet we usually don’t—we’re terrible at evaluating people objectively. Most of us also believe that hiring, development, and compensation decisions should come down to who […]