How to hire immigrant talent and improve your org. cultural competence

Date(s): 
Feb 18 2010 - 8:00am

 

 

Humber College is pleased to offer you free "Are You Ready?" workshops exclusively to small and medium sized organizations - for-profit, non-profit, charities etc.  As you are aware, the GTA attracts the highest proportion of skilled immigrants in Canada. These workshops are designed to assist you to effectively recruit and hire the brightest immigrant talent and improve your organization's cultural competence by:

 

• Understanding business drivers for hiring skilled immigrants

• Understanding  challenges with recruiting and selecting skilled immigrants

• Understanding limitations of traditional practices to source job candidates, screen individuals and interview candidates

• Identifying strategies to increase the likelihood of identifying qualified immigrants through resume screening

• Developing strategies to work with hiring managers to identify qualified immigrants in interviews

 

 

                        http://www.humber.ca/sites/www.humber.ca/files/HumberCampusLocations.pdf

 

Cost:                   FREE

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Designed for smaller organizations -- under 500 employees with revenue under $50M.

 

For more information or to register, contact:

 

Melinda Kao, Co-ordinator, Internationally Trained Immigrant Services

Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

416.675.6622 x 5125 or melinda.kao@humber.ca

 

Register at:

www.collegeconnect.on.ca/areyouready