Canada: Government Releases New Resource to Help Employers Hire Internationally Trained Workers
Canada’s Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister, Jason Kenney, has announced the release of “The Employer’s Roadmap,” which helps guide employers in hiring, assimilating, and retaining internationally trained workers.
The Roadmap is a tool for employers, human resources professionals, recruiters and managers in small to medium-sized enterprises and covers topics such as:
- the benefits of hiring internationally trained workers;
- how to hire and recruit such workers;
- how to assess qualifications; and
- how to integrate and retain employees with different professional and cultural backgrounds into the workforce.
This resource is one of several measures that the Canadian government is taking to help newcomers quickly and successfully integrate into the Canadian labor market. Another measure is Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which includes an investment of $50 million (Canadian) to help develop a common approach to foreign credential recognition.
