SME Workshops

In February 2010, Ontario community colleges (Algonquin, Centennial, la Cité, Conestoga, Confederation, Durham, Fanshawe, George Brown, Georgian, Humber, Niagara, Sault, Seneca, and Sheridan colleges) are pleased to offer you free "Are You Ready?" workshops exclusively to small and medium sized businesses.

These workshops are designed to assist you to effectively recruit and hire the brightest immigrant talent and improve your organization's cultural competence by:

• Understanding business drivers for hiring skilled immigrants

• Understanding challenges with recruiting and selecting skilled immigrants

• Understanding limitations of traditional practices to source job candidates, to screen individuals and resumes and to interview candidates

• Developing strategies to work with hiring managers to increase the likelihood of identifying qualified skilled immigrants in interview settings

• Identifying strategies to increase the likelihood of identifying qualified skilled immigrants through resume screening

For a complete list of the workshop dates, times and locations across the province or to register, please visit www.collegeconnect.on.ca/areyouready.

Please note that a Foundation Workshop must be completed before an Advanced Workshop.

Light refreshments will be served.

To find out more about the workshop being offered by the various Colleges, please click here.