Resources
Managing Newcomer Performance
This guide provides tips for managers on navigating the performance management process with newcomer staff, shedding light on aspects to be mindful of and offering strategies to enhance the process. It focuses on goal-setting and performance conversations, while touching upon performance improvement and career planning.
Published Date: 27 June 2025Employee DevelopmentImmigrant Talent IntegrationLeadershipWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceCreating an Inclusive Environment
As the number of newcomers in the workforce continues to grow, managers can create more supportive and engaging environments for these workers by adding a “newcomer lens” to their inclusion efforts. This resource summarizes key components of workplace inclusion and offers managers practical recommendations.
Published Date: 27 June 2025DEI StrategyImmigrant Talent IntegrationInclusionWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceCommunicating Organizational Culture
Managers can help alleviate the uncertainty that newcomers feel when they enter the workplace by proactively sharing information about the organization’s culture during onboarding. The resource breaks down the elements of organizational culture and provides strategies for managers to build newcomer staff's understanding of the workplace culture.
Published Date: 27 June 2025BelongingCommunicationImmigrant Talent IntegrationLeadershipOnboardingENAccess the ResourceMaking Hiring and Onboarding Language Inclusive
This guide identifies steps employers can take to make job descriptions, interviews and onboarding processes more “language inclusive," accounting for diversity in official language proficiency, accents, communication styles, and cultural nuances within language.
Published Date: 27 June 2025DEI StrategyHiringImmigrant Talent IntegrationInclusionLanguageOnboardingWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceAssessing Language and Communication Skills
Employers often grapple with assessing the language and communication skills of newcomer talent. This resource provides possible frameworks and tips to help employers in this endeavor, along with key considerations.
Published Date: 27 June 2025CommunicationImmigrant Talent IntegrationLanguageWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceWhat Employers Need to Know about Hiring Overqualified Newcomers
This resource shares information and tips to help employers grappling with decisions around hiring overqualified newcomers. It provides key statistics and contributing factors to scope out the challenge, with tips to navigate some of these issues.
Published Date: 26 June 2025DEI StrategyHow to find talentHow to hire talentHow to retain talentImmigrant Talent IntegrationInclusionWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceWhy Newcomer Inclusion is Good for Business
This guide outlines the benefits of newcomer inclusion. It also presents common barriers, useful tips, and examples. There are links to local and national resources to help organizations access training, explore best practices and build stronger connections with newcomers.
Published Date: 26 June 2025DEI StrategyDiversityEquityImmigrant Talent IntegrationInclusionWorkforce DevelopmentENAccess the ResourceBuilding Workplace Resiliency
Canada’s bio-economy is always in need of highly skilled and specialized people to fill both new and recently vacated positions. Recruiting and hiring internationally educated professionals is important to success and future growth.
Published Date: 04 February 2025How to find talentHow to hire talentHow to retain talentStrategyENAccess the ResourceEmployer Attitudes and the Hiring of Immigrants and International Students: Evidence from a Survey of Employers in Atlantic Canada
Employers’ perceptions regarding hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada.
Published Date: 16 January 2024How to hire talentInternational StudentsRecruitmentEN / FRAccess the ResourceDirectory of Ottawa Programs and Services for Employers and Businesses
Published Date: 16 January 2024How to find talentNetworkingENAccess the ResourceBritish Columbia Labour Market Outlook 2023
The 2023 edition of the B.C. Labour Market Outlook is a 10-year forecast of the expected flow of supply and demand for labour in the province. This report is revised each year with the most up-to-date information available. Its purpose is to provide British Columbians with the knowledge required to make informed decisions around careers, hiring, training and education. Employers and industry stakeholders can use the information for long-term planning and to identify the necessary skills and relevant training opportunities.
Published Date: 27 November 2023StrategyENAccess the ResourceEmployment Equity Toolkit
Sometimes to have fair and inclusive workplaces, employers need to look at treating their workers differently rather than the same. Employment equity addresses inequities in the workplace so we can build a more inclusive society respectful of human rights.
Published Date: 24 October 2023DiversityEquityInclusionInclusivity StrategyENAccess the Toolkit