- Workshop June 11
Our ‘Making a Change Together: A Resource Handbook for
Promoting Access to Professions and Trades for Foreign-Trained
People in Ontario' handbook provides information and tools to
help foreign-trained people, and groups interested in helping
them, address the problems that have often prevented
foreign-trained people from being effective change makers.
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- The world
in one city
Toronto is arguably the most multicultural city in the world.
Every year, more than 70,000 new immigrants and refugees call the
city home. In 1999 alone, they came from well over 100
countries.
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- Toronto has one-twelfth of Canada's
population but one-quarter of the country's immigrants.
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- Immigration accounts for more than
92 percent of the city's total population growth.
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- One in five Torontonians arrived in
Canada after 1981; one in ten arrived after 1991.
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- Toronto's citizens come from 169
countries and speak more than 100 languages (the top three foreign
languages are Chinese, Italian and Portuguese).
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- Toronto's cultural and religious
diversity is unmatched: Mass is now said in 35 languages; 200,000
Muslims observe Ramadan; 80,000 Sikhs march in the annual Khalsa
Day celebrations; and the city is home to half of the country's
Jews.
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- There are more visible minorities in
Toronto than there are residents in any of the Atlantic provinces,
Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
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- Read Canadian Geographic
report...
- Skills for Change statistical
database...
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- New
Pioneers Awards nominations
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 Please nominate remarkable immigrants and
refugees for next year’s New Pioneers Awards, it will be the
tenth anniversary and we are planning a big celebration. Printed
nomination forms are available at Skills for Change or on our
website.
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- Job
Postings
 Accounts
Administrator
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Employment
Preparation & Computer Instructor
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- Staff Changes
Goodbye to...
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Qaiser Khan
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- Open for
E-Business!
 Skills
for Change is moving with the times and with technology! Skills
for Change has developed a website to better assist employers with
their staffing needs.-
- JobReady is
a new service that allows employers to browse client resumes on
the internet. Profiles and detailed resumes of highly skilled
graduates are arranged by occupation type (including
administration, customer service, finance/accounting, IT,
engineering and health care), and are updated on a regular basis.
All clients who are listed on the website are seeking either paid
employment or Work Experience Placements. In addition, each client
profile is directly linked to their respective Job Developer’s
contact information.
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- The SfC Job Developers Unit (comprised of Job Developers from
the Clerical Employment Service, Sector-Specific Terminology,
Information and Counselling, and Employment Assistance Services
programs) provides the following services to employers:
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- Screening and referral
of job candidates
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Work Experience Programs (WEPs)
that provide six to twelve weeks of volunteer placement
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On-site recruitment
at Skills for Change, including information sessions and job fairs
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Professional Development
opportunities for your
staff to build their cross-cultural skills for today's diverse
workplace including becoming a mentor
for a foreign-trained professional
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- JobReady
offers employers a quick, efficient method of accessing the wealth
of clients that Skills for Change has to offer.
Additional resumes and profiles can be viewed
at the New Canadians Program web site.
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- Acronym Soup
- Confused? Don't be. Here's a list
of our agency acronyms, what they mean and (where applicable) a
link to the program web page.
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- CES - Clerical Employment Services
- EAS - Employment Assistance
Program
- EPRS - Employment Preparation for
Retail Services
- ERC - Employment Resource Centre
- FOAP - Finance and Office
Assistant Program
- IAT - Intake, Assessment and
Training
- JSC - Job Search Centre
- JSW - Job Search Workshop
- LINC - Language Instruction for
Newcomers to Canada
- NPA
- New Pioneers Awards
- STIC - Sector Terminology
Information & Counselling
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