Employers
The Employer Engagement Strategy encompasses a number of strategic initiatives and programs designed to inform, elicit interest and engage employers in the practice of recruiting, hiring, engaging and retaining skilled and professional immigrant talent. This program is funded by the Government of Ontario.
Information Clearing House
A region-wide campaign, profiling success stories where the skills of immigrants specifically met skills shortages to address local employer needs.
Employer Visitation Program
One-on-one meetings with employers on-site to gain real-time feedback from employers on barriers and potential solutions to support their workforce needs, including specific future skills needs.
Partnership staff are interested to determine:
How do we best help employers?
How do we engage employers?
What are the gaps/overlaps in employers related service delivery in this community?
Employer Workshops and Seminars
Designed to provide employers with timely information and tools to assist in the recruitment, hiring, integration and retention of foreign trained talent.
Networking Sessions
Networking events that put employers in direct contact with job ready skilled and professional immigrants. During such events success stories of immigrant integration into the Waterloo Region will be shared; and immigrants and employers will be able to discuss employment opportunities in a one-to-one non interview type environment.
WRIEN Business Excellence Award 2011
An annual forum (Annual Best Practices Forum) focused on human resource best practices that create win-win outcomes for employers and new comers to Waterloo Region was held in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
WRIEN Committee members decided to join the Gala Business Excellence Award event hosted by the Greater KW Chamber of Commerce instead of delivering its Annual Forum to celebrate best practices. A WRIEN Award was created and the 2011 Award went to Redragon.
Congratulations to Redragon Oil and Gas Systems for winning the WRIEN Award at the Chamber of Commerce Gala held at Bingeman’s on February 17, 2011. Prakash Venkataraman, owner of Redragon was one of 11 winners at the annual gala attended by nearly 800 people. He won this award based on his commitment to hire immigrants. Nearly all 25 Redragon employees are from other countries and speak more than 20 languages.
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