Diversity in Your Workplace
If you are an employer, this section will help you find resources to integrate newcomers into your workplace!
Visit Citizenship and Immigration Cultural Profiles or Culturegrams.com to learn about your new employee’s country of origin and beliefs. Culturegrams.com also offers a Multicultural Education Program.
This page covers the following topics:
• How to Hire Foreign Trained Professionals
• Human Resource Tools
• Voluntary Sector Resources
How to Hire Foreign Trained Professionals
Contact Career Bridge to hire an Internationally Trained Professional for an Internship.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada offers information to hire foreign workers. This website gives the four step guide to hire a temporary foreign worker.
To learn about Temporary Foreign Worker Program, visit the Human Resources and Social Development Canada website. This website also has an employer guidebook, to help with the hiring process of temporary foreign workers.
The Opportunities Ontario: Provincial Nominee Program assists employers with employee’s immigration applications.
Use the Employment Resources Directory on the right of this page or Access Centre for Regulated Professions to find the contact information to recruit foreign trained professional.
Foreign Credentials Referral Office produce the Employer’s roadmap to hiring and retaining internationally trained workers.
SISO has created a very informative Workplace Development Toolkit.
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Human Resource Tools
Hireimmigrants.ca is for employers looking to develop and welcome skilled immigrants into their work environment. Visit our HireImmigrants.ca Road Map page for a guide to resource planning.
Their website also offers the following for Human Resources Managers:
• the cross cultural interviewing tool
• bi-weekly e-tips
• roadmaps for resource planning
• ability to register for important webinars
• Employer success stories and so much more!
Diversity in the Workplace and Diversity Inc. are two websites to help your organization embrace diversity.
The experts at canadianimmigrant.ca are available to answer your questions.
The Regional Diversity Roundtable has created the Tools of Cultural Proficiency.
If you work in the health sciences, Hamilton Health Sciences and AMSSA have multilingual resources.
To increase your awareness about hiring newcomers, visit changingthecanvas.org.
Upwardly Global has a cross-cultural interviewing training module.
Career Advancement in Corporate Canada: A Focus on Visible Minorities is a research paper to fostering an inclusive workplace.
Follow the link for a diversity policy kit to assist you in developing a diversity policy for your workplace.
Follow the links to understand foreign credentials and language training programs.
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Voluntary Sector Resources
The Advancing Cultural Diversity in Volunteer Management Project explores best practices to integrate diverse volunteers into your organization.
Pillar non-profit network gives the non-profit sector useful resources.
Read the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition's Inclusive Community Organizations Tool Kit.
Management Help has information for building an inclusive non-for-profit organization.
Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration has online tools and information for the Voluntary Sector.
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