Community Leadership
Recruiting, Hiring and Retention of Newcomers
We will work directly with businesses in Campbell River and the Comox Valley to meet your needs around recruiting, hiring, retention, and staff development related to newcomers.
By working to ensure the successful retention of newcomers, we contribute to the economic well-being, labour force, tax base, market base, diversity, and overall richness of the communities we serve.
If you are a business owner/operator in North Vancouver Island, let us know your needs around the recruiting and retention of newcomers by emailing info@immigrantwelcome.ca.
Training & Resources
Here are printable PDFs of our free, professional services that you can include in your onboarding packages to new staff who are new to Canada and the North Island:
- Immigrant Welcome Centre – Free Settlement Services
- Immigrant Welcome Centre – Language Instruction for Newcomer (LINC) classes
The IWC does not have any in-house training workshops at this time.
Below are some organizations that often host training opportunities and offer relevant resources so that you can be a leader in your hiring practices and create a respectful and welcoming workplace culture.
We have also included resources employers can share with new employees who want to learn more about Canadian workplace culture.
- AMSSA Workshops
- Safe Harbour: Respect for All
- Cultural Safety: Diversity & Inclusion
- Mosaic Engage Centre for Diversity Inclusion Training
- Creating a Culturally Competent Workplace: A Guide to Hiring Newcomer Canadians (created by South Okanagan Immigrant & Community Services)
- ISS of BC: Sector Guides (understanding technological sectors in other countries) & Employer Hiring/Selection Toolkit
- The Employers’ Roadmap: Hiring and Retaining Internationally Trained Workers (IRCC)
- Anti-Racism At Work Campaign (Greater Victoria Local Immigration Partnership)
- Immigrant Employment Council of BC: Employer Tools & Resources
- Anti-Racism Response Training (A.R.T.) – a witness-centred approach to disrupting racism (adapted by Campbell River’s Thanh Tazumi and Naomi L. Wolfe)
- February 2022 4-part Train-the-Trainer program
- Google “Anti-Racism Response Training” for more opportunities
- The Workplace Inclusion Charter
- Free professional development webinars
- Short videos from employers and employees: What does workplace inclusion look like in the real world?
- Skilled Immigrant Info Centre (created by the Vancouver Public Library) – Canadian Workplace Culture overview for newcomers
- Workplace Integration of Newcomers (WIN): The Newcomer’s Guide to the Canadian Workplace (created by Regional Connections Immigrant Services in Manitoba)
- Workplace Culture frequently asked questions (created by Settlement.Org)