Recruit and Select
Ensure your recruitment, selection and onboarding processes are inclusive in order to tap into the widest available range of suitable talent, including skilled immigrants.
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Finding Talent
This training video presents the business case for hiring skilled immigrants and to demonstrate techniques that will allow companies to leverage the talents of skilled immigrants. Continue reading
Find and Recruit
To effectively recruit skilled immigrants, you need to understand your recruitment objectives and your community, ensure job descriptions don’t exclude any qualified candidates, create bias-free job advertisements and establish networks within the skilled immigrant talent pool.
Tap Into the Right Markets
Use Local Employment Agencies to get Candidates Faster
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To ensure you aren’t inadvertently screening out skilled immigrant candidates you need the skills to properly screen resumes, evaluate credentials, prepare for the interview and make the hiring decision.
Cross-Cultural Interviewing Tips and Tools
Recognizing the Value of International Credentials
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This section will provide you with strategies and tools to help you successfully orient, train, accommodate and integrate new skilled immigrant hires into your organization.
Setting Expectations Goes a Long Way
Make Mentoring Part of New Employee Orientation
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- Writing a Barrier-Free Job Description posted on June 23, 2011 Clear, concise language that focuses on essential skills will ensure qualified skilled immigrants aren't unintentionally excluded.
- Know Your Needs and Your Labour Force posted on July 2, 2011 A workforce analysis helps you understand your employment needs and guide recruitment goals.
- Create an Inclusive Recruitment Strategy posted on August 1, 2011 A recruitment philosophy that focuses on skills, as opposed to country of origin, leads to a concrete policy that guides your organization’s recruitment efforts.
- Creating an inclusive environment posted on August 8, 2011 An inclusive environment benefits skilled immigrants and the organization as a whole.
