Articles tagged with: employment
BC HRMA Diversity Roundtable: How to deal with language barriers in a Diverse Workforce
Where: BC HRMA’s office
When: November 1, 2012 at 5:30pm
Sometimes, communication problems arise from language barriers such as unintelligible accented speech, a different tone in written documents, and/or the tone of one’s voice. At this RT …
Do policies of the lowest common denominator bring about system-level, change?
In 2012, Olga Shcherbyna defended her thesis as a part of her graduate studies at the UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning. A two-year study examined the success factors of the Toronto Region Immigrant …
The 2009 ALLIES Learning Exchange – in Vancouver
“…Join over 150 participants from 17 city regions across Canada and learn about issues and strategies to actively promote the employment of skilled immigrants. The 2009 ALLIES Learning Exchange will bring together local stakeholders, including businesses, civic …
Metro Vancouver Leaders Summit on Immigrant Employment to be held October 22 at Wosk Centre
ALLIES has awarded the Vancouver Foundation a Start-up Phase One grant. Vancouver is Canada’s immigrant gateway of the west. Its foreign-born population has more than doubled since 1981 and today nearly 40% of the city’s residents are born outside of Canada.
The Metro …
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