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Newcomers provide a fresh talent pool from which to add their knowledge and skills to contribute to our community, giving them a sense of value and pride. In addition, Care for Newcomers Employment works with Red Deer and Central Albertan employers who wish to embrace an inclusive culture in their workforce and realize the possibilities for improvement and success.
Care for Newcomers offers four workshop series designed to help employers successfully navigate newcomer employees' hiring, training, and retention. With half and full-day workshops, employers learn to attract immigrant and refugee employees to their company.
Participating employers reported notable improvements to their business since taking Care for Newcomers Employment workshops and hiring immigrants and refugees new to Canada.
Employers thinking of attracting Newcomer employees will find the information they need to prepare their business for the hiring process and the joys and challenges of integrating an inclusive environment.
Ready for Talent Series
Employers thinking of attracting newcomer employees will find the information they need to prepare their business for the hiring process and the joys and challenges of integrating an inclusive environment.
This workshop shows you how to prepare for hiring newcomer employees. It considers the relationship between inclusivity and the attraction of qualified candidates. The content comes from the hands-on experience of Central Albertan employers through video interviews.
You will learn the following:
· How to prepare job postings and resume protocols to receive better applications
· Best practices for preparing the existing workforce
Cost-effective tips for small businesses
Employers thinking of attracting Newcomer employees will find the information they need to prepare their business for the hiring process and the joys and challenges of integrating an inclusive environment.
The half-day 1A participants will learn why employers should hire Newcomers, create an inclusive environment that attracts a diverse workforce, and identify Newcomer-friendly job postings.
Participants will practice strategies and take self-assessment quizzes to find out how ready their workplace is and what to focus on as a next step.
Employers thinking of attracting Newcomer employees will find the information they need to prepare their business for the hiring process and the joys and challenges of integrating an inclusive environment.
The half-day 1B participants will learn how to prepare the existing workforce and build a foundation for the Newcomer employee's success.
Participants will consider the joys and challenges of hiring Newcomers and how to prepare the existing workforce to receive them positively. Other Central Albertan employers share their experiences and highlight the best practices they used. Finally, participants will consider how to implement the best methods to attract qualified Newcomers that suit their business size.
The Find Talent Series is the next step for Central Albertan businesses and introduces Newcomers' interviewing and hiring process to their company.
How To Find Talent Series
In this full-day workshop, participants will consider how hiring Newcomers differs from their current hiring practices. In addition, CARE interviewed other participating companies to determine how they found a balance between diversity benefits and company fit.
You will learn the following:
· Explore interviewing and hiring qualified Newcomers
· Recruitment strategies for small business
· Effective strategies for receiving better resumes
· Best practices for interviewing Newcomers to help them show their talent and abilities
We will also look at essential workplace skills and core competencies to achieve the best fit between the applicant's and employer's needs.
The half-day 2A participants will discover how to handle recruitment, resumes, and interviews for culturally unfamiliar candidates. Learn about Newcomer-friendly recruitment strategies, resume considerations, and interview must-haves. You will also consider international and Canadian practices and learn how to bring out the best in Newcomer applicants.
The half-day 2B participants will consider the role of core competencies and essential workplace skills in finding a candidate's talents, practical ways to test for technical skill and what it means when people say they want "Canadian experience." Participants will also learn how to make their own workplace culture easier to explain and find what really matters for a fit in your organization.
The How to Integrate Talent Series is the third step in the hiring process for Central Albertan businesses interested in hiring Newcomers. It continues the process as we consider the importance of orientation and onboarding both Newcomer new hires and all new employees.
How To Integrate Talent Series
Did you know that half of our country’s workforce is born outside Canada? These international professionals bring a world of international education, skills, contacts and work experience to our local economy – as well as many more ways to lead, communicate, collaborate, innovate and resolve conflict. But how can you prepare to receive and attract immigrant employees to your business?
Preparation to hire immigrant employees means using a cultural lens to think through the kinds of positions you are hiring for. Being clear about the competencies and skills is a first step. Knowing what level of English proficiency you require for each position is another important part. Then there is the question of working with cultural differences. You likely have questions about how much you would need to accommodate and how you should prepare the existing workforce. We can help you answer these questions, not only from the perspective of what people think they “should” do, but from the real experience of Central Alberta employers who have already found solutions.
How is hiring and immigration different from what you are already doing? Interview and hiring practices that take diverse cultural perspectives into consideration are actually better for all job candidates no matter where they come from.
When we learn to recognize talent even if it doesn’t “look or sound like me”, we can better place our new hires into appropriate positions and have realistic expectations about their skills. Fortunately, most of the ground work has already been done by future oriented Central Alberta businesses.
What can you do to make sure your talented newcomer employees want to stay with you?
There are many reasons why people leave their employment. Employees may have to move with a spouse who has a better position elsewhere, or they have opportunities to study, move up or get closer to their desired careers. Often their reasons for leaving have to do with feeling undervalued by their managers, or because unresolved interpersonal conflicts have become unbearable at work. But what about the reasons people stay? And how can you increase the “stay factor” to the point where we become one of those employers of choice people talk about? A few stay-factors are related to salary, but oftentimes they are related to believing in the organization and in having a future there. Finally there is the pull of a positive company culture.
Care for Newcomers offers workshop series designed to help employers successfully navigate newcomer employees' hiring, training, and retention.
Participating employers reported notable improvements to their business since taking Care for Newcomers's Employment workshops and hiring immigrants and refugees new to Canada.
The How to Retain Talent Series looks at what motivates people to stay in their jobs. As the fourth step, we look at successfully supporting employees for long-term employment and navigating difficulties.
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