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Canada
A report from the Royal Bank of Canada states that despite higher levels of education, new Canadians earn less and are less like to have a job than native-born Canadians. More than 40% of recent immigrants have a BA or higher, but are only earning $28,000 per year on average. The unemployment rate for immigrants at 12% is higher too than for native Canadians. In terms of gender, male immigrants earned 7% more than female immigrants while the employment rate for women was greater than for men at 2.5 percentage points. The gap in both cases is worse in Canada’s 3 major cities—Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. "While Canada has done a great job of attracting foreign talent, integrating newcomers effectively has proven to be more of a challenge," the report says....
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| The Creative Diversity Network (CDN) announced the recipients of the CDN Diversity Awards 2011. The awards and winners included Battlefront, Channel 4, which won the Diversity Innovation Award. Mark Thompson, BBC director general, said, “The challenges that the BBC is facing - representation, portrayal, a more diverse workforce - are shared by all members of the CDN. Tonight's winners show just how much our industry can achieve when we get it right."...[ read more ] |
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Pre-Employment Training Program
Working with community agencies to identify talented potential employees with disabilities who are otherwise overlooked through its regular recruitment channels, BMO Financial Group delivers its Pre-Employment Training Program (PET), 6 weeks of coaching and training for candidates with little or no work experience. During this period, it also assesses the accommodation needs of the recruits to eliminate workplace barriers that can impede their success. Example: Zoomtext, a computer program for....[ read more ] |
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| TOP2 steps to addressing generational differences |
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| According to a survey conducted by Pitney Bowes Inc., about 20% of the workplace population reports to a younger supervisor. Because each generation has unique characteristics, it pays to know your generational audience. Here are a few tips....[ read more ] |
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POV What makes a workplace accessible?
BY DONNA J. JODHAN |
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This is a question that I as an accessibility consultant get asked almost every day. When does a workplace become accessible? Is it when a person is able to function independently? Or is it when a person feels that they can perform all of the duties of their job without having to ask for help? Or is when management feels that they have done everything within their power to make it so?
As I write this, I am reminded of not too long ago when blind persons simply dreamed of being able to use mobile devices independently and efficiently. I too dreamed of it and thanks to the vision and hard work of the late Steve Jobs, devices such as the IPad, IPhone, and IPod Touch have all been made accessible to us....[ read more ] |
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What’s your generational strategy?
BY KAREN RICHARDSON |
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As a fellow GenXer, I admit to appealing to Millenials, (also known as GenYs) for tech advice from time to time. In 2011, Millenials are aged 0 to 29. They are optimistic, enthusiastic team players, and they “live online and buy online”, according to Chuck Underwood, who presented at the MagNet conference, a conference for the magazine publishing industry. Underwood, President of the Generational Imperative, claims it’s crucial to understand the different core values of each generation in order to market to your customers and sell your brand.
Understanding the different generations is also important for the workplace. It can determine your recruitment strategies (social media versus traditional marketing), engagement levels and enjoyment, management strategies, employee retention and leadership development. There are, after all, five living generations, each with different formative years and different generational values that guide their decisions.... [ read more ] |
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