These workshops will result in you understanding how Canadian immigration can be used to build community capacity and create positive economic development. In addition, you will learn what other communities & businesses have invested into these strategies to create a sustainable quality of life for newcomers leading to long-term economic growth.
This series will be delivered in 9 sessions with each session ranging from 45 – 60 minutes directly to you online featuring various sessions, divided into two to three sessions per day from 11 am to 1 pm CST.
Each day will lead with an on-line immigration pathway learning event followed by a speaker who has utilized these strategies! Now, that’s what we call “learn & apply” .
Municipal leaders, staff and economic developers are struggling to sustain their population and to devise a strategy on how to grow it.
Businesses who are thinking about not expanding or even closing because of the lack of workers. Businesses who are not sure if immigration is for them.
Entrepreneurs looking to reach into rural & northern Canada but not sure if the labour market is there or how to attract the talent needed.
This timely 9-part series introduces you to the importance of immigration and also allows you the time to explore if immigration is the right growth strategy for your business or community now, or in the future. The workshops range from 45 minutes to 60 minutes per session in length so you have over a day’s worth of learning to listen to and learn from. This series is designed for business owners, community planners & volunteers and municipal government & staff. So save yourself money & time from travelling and learn from the comfort of your own home or office.
Because you do not know if immigration is a strategy for you yet, we want you to save time from driving, and not spend your hard-earned dollars on hotel rooms, meals and mileage. The extremely low all access pass itself, is less than one night spent on accommodations, so that alone is a deal!
Welcome to Is immigration for me Virtual Series 2023
Using Immigration for community & business
Let’s wait for lunch together! For session one Lindsay will welcome all the participants to the three-day luncheon series. Further, she will review what immigration is, and how it can be used to ensure the sustainability of businesses and communities. She will explain the key players in immigration and how they affect. We will also look at the “Red Herrings” of using immigration, what you have control over and what you usually do not.
In this session we are going to talk about the Outsiders. Not the book. The people. The ones who think differently, who don’t know our past, and who pick our communities to live in, on purpose. We are going to discuss them and what they bring to the table, why we resist them and how important they are to our future. Join for a bit of laughter, a bit of wisdom, and a lot of new ideas.
Immigration 101
Welcome to Immigration 101, or shall we say a preview of the basic requirements of immigration. In this session you will learn the basic importance of the NOC with the TIER System as well as the importance of the Canadian Language Benchmark. These are some of the most important fundamentals or most spoken about aspects in the Economic immigration pathway and application process.
Immigration Pathways for Business
Immigration is not just good for our communities and our economy. It is essential. That is why we as businesses need to understand how to attract and welcome newcomers who bring the skills our economy needs to help address acute labour shortages across the Prairies.
Using immigration to build your workforce
Russell Inn & Conference Centre
In this session we are going to talk about what it really takes to develop a skilled workforce utilising immigration. There is much more that goes into implementing an immigration strategy then just identifying how you may get workers into your business. This session is going to be honest. Oh there is so much more, such as where will these workers stay? How will they adapt to the area? What barriers were faced by the business? Was there any government support? If you are a business considering an overseas recruitment then grab your lunch, this will assist you to determine if an immigration strategy maybe an option for your business.
WisenUP Canada Podcast
An educated foreign skilled workforce already in Canada, who knew? Can they work for you?
You may not know this but there is an amazing skilled talent pool here in Canada who are waiting to be hired and have long-term careers with businesses like yours. This hidden talent is also looking for a community that offers a great quality of life where they work. Here’s the thing: if you don’t know about them, how are they to know about you? He will speak about the untapped talent your business can hire and in-turn what they can do for your business. He will also highlight the best way of recruiting this talent pool and what they are looking for in an employer. So join Ron for an after lunch chat about the untapped the Temporary Foriegn talent pool you may be able to access.
Immigration & Settlement
Let’s chat about settlement and what this looks like for communities who have settlement offices and those who do not. Settlement is just as crucial as immigration because if you do not have a settlement plan, you simply do not have a retention plan! This session will provide insight into what resources are available for businesses and communities to access. Examples will also be provided about some ways your community can deliver settlement services without a settlement office.
Town of Neepawa, Economic Development
Town of Neepawa
Hylife
Neepawa’s immigration is embedded in the community through their largest local employer, HyLife Foods. HyLife uses the Temporary Foreign Worker program to staff their pork processing plant. Those workers, and their immigrating families, have driven Neepawa’s population growth with over 50% increase in the past 10 years. Join this presentation to hear about what this rural community has learned along the way.
Parkland Ukraine Fund
This session is for those communities and businesses who just don’t know what settlement resources are available for newcomers and workers! The Parkland Ukraine Family Fund session will take a look at how a group of volunteers single handedly created a settlement strategy and tasked themselves to fundraise to support displaced Ukrainian families. The fund’s other main goal was to support the economic growth and development of the Dauphin area. PUFF has now brought in 20 families who have settled within Dauphin, you will learn how they found housing, dealt with transportation, identified employment opportunities and ensured schooling for their children and much more settlement resources.
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