WRIEN is a Waterloo Region collaborative of employers, agencies, governments, educators and foreign trained professionals working together to:

• Enhance the region's image as a welcoming community to foreign trained professionals so it can compete for the world's best talent,
  
• Foster an environment where the education, skills and experience of foreign trained professionals is fully employed to make the community economically and socially stronger; and
  
• Support regional employers in their efforts to attract, hire, engage and retain foreign trained professionals as strategic members of their workplace.

• The New Canadian Employment Connections Program connects job ready immigrants with employers.                            For more information, please click here

The Mentorship Program matches a skilled or professional Canadian (mentor) with an internationally trained professional (mentee).