Author Archives: Devon Franklin
This Is Why Diversity Is Good For Business
The business case for diversity is compelling. Having different opinions at the table is critical for innovation in the information age. So how can businesses foster diversity?
Asian Job Seekers Face Disadvantage Even When They Have Higher Degrees, Study Finds
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 […]
Canadian Companies Still Struggling to Overcome Hiring Bias Against Minorities
Hiring Bias event and report release announcement: ‘Do Larger Employers Treat Racial Minorities More Fairly?’.
Rural Ontario Looks to Immigrants as Jobs Go Unfilled
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 […]
Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?
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 […]
50 Percent Immigration Boost Makes ‘Complete Sense,’ Says Expert
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 […]
Hire Immigrants Embarks on New Partnership with Magnet at Ryerson University
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 […]
Our Immigrants, Our Strength
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 […]
It’s Time for Action, and New Answers, on the Global Refugee Crisis
In the year since the death of Alan Kurdi brought the plight of Syrian refugees into the world spotlight, we have seen an outpouring of public support. More than 30,000 Syrians have found new homes in Canada, more than 10,000 of those through private sponsorship. Hundreds of thousands have migrated to Europe. And yet, efforts […]
Skilled Immigrants Wasting their Talents in Canada
By Alia Dharssi, Calgary Herald “Our problem is that, since about 1990, we have not been able to fully make the best use of our immigrants,” said Michael Bloom of the Conference Board of Canada. “We know that because they haven’t reached the level of pay, of income that matches the Canadian-born. They haven’t done as […]