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The Employer’s Roadmap
Hiring and Retaining Internationally Trained Workers

The Employer’s Roadmap to Hiring and Retaining Internationally Trained Workers is a guide for employers in small and medium-sized enterprises. The roadmap is a practical resource for anyone involved in hiring, including business owners, human resources professionals, recruiters and managers.

View more information at www.credentials.gc.ca/employers/roadmap/index.asp

 
Employment Projects of Winnipeg

(EPW) is a government funded not-for-profit organization that specializes in connecting individuals born outside of Canada with local employers. Free employment related services include:

  • Employment counselling
  • Workshop series and monthly job fairs
  • Introductory computer courses
  • Literacy programs

Their Website is: www.epw.ca

Immigrant Credentials, Manitoba Labour and Immigration

This branch assists immigrants in obtaining Canadian credentials in their occupations and offers entrepreneurial support. There are wage subsidies for employers who employ credentialed immigrants who require Canadian work experience.

Their Website is: www.gov.mb.ca/labour/immigrate/english/index.htmlwww.gov.mb.ca/labour/immigrate/english/index.html

International Centre of Winnipeg

This centre provides information and settlement requirements for immigrants and refugees.

Their Website is: www.international-centre.ca

Success Skills Centre (SSC)

Success Skills Centre (SSC) has operated since 1985 as a community-based, not-for-profit organization, working in partnership with the federal and provincial governments. The Centre works primarily with immigrant professionals and skilled workers who have had their education and experience from outside of Canada. The Centre's main objective is to help remove barriers immigrants encounter which interfere with their ability to utilize their skills and training in Canada. SSC provides services and programs that assist immigrant professionals and skilled workers obtain employment appropriate to their credentials.

Their website is: www.successskills.mb.ca

Employment Solutions for Immigrant Youth (ESIY) is a federally and provincially funded organization that works with newcomer youth who fall within the specific criteria:

  • Looking for work and pursuing educational upgrading
  • Out of school and unemployed
  • Between the ages of 18 and 30
  • Self-supporting, on Adjustment Assistance, or Employment and Income Assistance
The mission of the organization is to design job specific programming to prepare immigrant youth with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for successful, sustained employment in high demand occupations within the Manitoba labour force. Critical to the venture's growth is the ability to offer Winnipeg employers with well-trained, skilful, and ready to work immigrant youth with competencies in the professions, trades, and technologies field. Employment Solutions will utilize a client-centered approach to service delivery, helping clients achieve desired outcomes as well as working hand in hand with businesses to build partnerships that address their human resource needs.

Their website is: www.employmentsolutionsforimmigrantyouth.mb.ca

Career Destination MANITOBA

A family of websites which has 100 profiles on careers, including construction. These profiles tell lifelong/lifewide career stories.

Online Resources:
www.immigrantsandcareers.mb.ca
www.careerdestination.mb.ca

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