In this Member Workshop with The Career Foundation, get educated on available training, recruitment, employee retention and other resources that would help you improve talent and skill shortages.
Event Information
Do you know that there are government funded employment resources to help employers meet their talent needs? In a time when hiring teams are stretched and the talent shortage is a big crisis, what can your organization do to develop talent and hiring strategies, and implement them expertly?
This workshop aims to educate hiring managers and employers on various training, recruitment, retention and wrap-around supports available through community resources that would help you improve talent and skill shortages.
You will leave the workshop with a strong understanding of how to:
• Align available resources with access to an untapped candidate market through community employment programs.
• Utilize employer and candidate wrap-around services that support workforce retention.
• Integrate training programs and services that aid in diversity hiring practices.
Workshop Video
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Oakville Room: All right. Hello, everyone. My name is Taryn Cebula, and I'm. A senior manager of Member engagement here at the Toronto Region Board of trade. Thank you for joining us at our home this afternoon.
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Oakville Room: but as we began, or before we begin, i'd like to acknowledge that this land is home to many diverse first nations, Inuit and Mit people.
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Our offices are located on the traditional territory of many indigenous nations who believe in intergenerational responsibility for the well-being of today and tomorrow.
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Oakville Room: So again thank you for joining us this afternoon for the Career Foundation's workshop here in our semi brand new home on the waterfront. our venue features a large dollar room. If you wanted to make your way after the session, to take a look on the other side of the venue space. We've also got 4 standalone large meeting rooms, one of which we're in this afternoon break out spaces a 22,000 square foot outdoor terrace a state of the art digital studio and our trade cafe.
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which will house our post workshop networking between 1, 15 and 2 Pm. This afternoon, so do feel free to peruse around after the event.
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Oakville Room: And just so you're all aware all of these spaces are available to rent by non members of the Board, as well as members who enjoy a 25 discount. If you have any questions about membership at the Board, or would like to learn more about how to host an event for an unforgettable experience. Here, at 100 Queensky East, feel free to snatch me after the event.
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Oakville Room: But speaking of unforgettable experiences today, we welcome one of our valued members the career foundation to discuss integrating community employment resources into talent and hiring strategy. This workshop aims to educate hiring managers and employers on various training, recruitment, retention, and wraparound supports available through community resources
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Oakville Room: that would help you improve talent and skill shortages.
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So with that I am now going to pass the mic over to our esteemed speakers, Lance Barrett, director of Workforce Development and Shauna Mackenzie onida area manager of employment and placement services.
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Oakville Room: Thank you very much, Tyron. It's such a pleasure to be here. I think I want to move up to the terrace. So anybody want to join me? Let me know. Yes, it's wonderful to be here, and it's wonderful to have this conversation with all you all. Thank you for taking your time. Sharing your lunch with us is very much appreciated
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Oakville Room: before we actually get started with with our content. Today I want to make sure we get a chance to introduce each other. Oh, get to know each other a little bit more. And while we're here, what challenges we're having because it's real challenges, hr challenges and talent challenges are real, and then we'll get into some some discussions.
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Oakville Room: You are. So you are starting to
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Oakville Room: an inspiring way to end off the introductions. I really like i'm gonna actually take that line. Everybody deserves a chance to change. So i'm gonna go right into Hr: solutions at no cost. So what I hear on the table is
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Oakville Room: so the Hr. Challenges that we want to address. We're hoping to do it within our own capacity as an organization financially, people wise. And what we're hoping to bring to the group today is they are support out there to help the business community to address some of these challenges
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Oakville Room: through funded programs, and that's what i'm gonna be focused on today. The reason why I say funded programs is all the Logos that you see here. This is going to be specifically to the career foundation
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and the programs that we offer the employment programs we offer and who funds those programs. So, as you can see, this is just us right. So there is a lot of support from the Government for specifically H. Our employment related challenges across job seekers and across employers.
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I believe the disconnect is that a lot of job seekers know about these supports employers, Don't and that's what i'm, hoping to bring some knowledge here. It's going to be basic knowledge, because i'm hoping that we can have a chance to be more one in one Talk to your talk to you individually at a later time about your own specific needs.
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But, as you can see, the Government of Canada, the province of Ontario employment Ontario actually falls onto the province of interior because it's under the Ministry of Immigration Training
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Oakville Room: and Miss Ministry of Labor, imminent immigration, Training and Skills Development on territ trillium inequality, which is a part of on your Home Builders Association, City of Toronto, Future skills. So these are all organizations that have
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Oakville Room: budget or funds ready and available to provide the financial support that industry need to ensure that you can tap into talent, that you might, that you may not be tapping to right now. And that's also why we went with the term community employment services.
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I hear on the table. I need to find talent. I need to retain talent. I need to attract talent, and at the career foundation. We deal with talent all day every day. So when I hear that there is a labor shortage, I and because we see so many job seekers, and Lance will go into that soon
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for me. Being in the middle. I really see a skills shortage.
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Oakville Room: So people are there employees or their jobs or their people are there. The the disconnect is the skills that's needed. And how can we work on that middle ground?
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Oakville Room: And how can we compromise and maybe come to a new bottom line or a new entry level. Let's say, to start to create pathways so that this
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demographic of individuals can now be a viable talent pool for our employers to go to. So i'm just gonna switch over to Lance is going to tell you a little bit about about the career foundation, and then we'll continue from there.
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Oakville Room: Perfect. Thank you.
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Oakville Room: So Career Foundation, Who are we we're a charitable organization
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Oakville Room: 34 years established in in 1988,
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Oakville Room: and we really look to combined government private sector and obviously job seekers
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Oakville Room: and one of the ways we do it is through programs. So here identify and address labor market caps, and that's where
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Oakville Room: some of you come in.
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Oakville Room: You're having trouble hiring whether it be in construction, whether it be whatever industry
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Oakville Room: we we meet with. You identify an opportunity that we can build a program. sometimes through private, sometimes with the Government funding.
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Oakville Room: really build a program to meet the needs and train people
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Oakville Room: to to meet a need or address a labor market gap. And these these programs. what they're really designed to do is. instead of
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Oakville Room: getting somebody off the street that you have to
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Oakville Room: skill up train basically from from 0
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Oakville Room: these programs, we we put them through the program some last
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Oakville Room: 6 weeks, some last 14 weeks, and really give them the basic skills
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Oakville Room: and knowledge needed to to come into a company and have a
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Oakville Room: almost hit the ground running, have an immediate impact, immediate productivity. It saves a lot of
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Oakville Room: effort, a lot of
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Oakville Room: money for the employers involved and really looks after a need that's identified, and and
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Oakville Room: you know it helps helps the employers
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Oakville Room: get people and get good qualified people.
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Oakville Room: Thanks.
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Oakville Room: So what we're gonna dive in today is, how can your business actually do what we're saying? How can you actually integrate community employment resources
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through government funds and also industry funds? So when I say industry funds. Sometimes it's associations that represent a group of employers also are able to approach government for certain sector needs. So we're gonna talk about. How do you do that through recruitment and selection?
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How do? How do we help with training and retention? What type of rapper on support we have for employers? We hear the term wrap around support to law for clients, especially the clients in the community when it comes to life stabilization. So when someone has a job. When
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my friend there is helping a single mom or coming from a shelter system, they need a lot of rap around support mental health supports.
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Oakville Room: But how do we equate that to when an employer is now ready to hire from the community with individuals that does? Does it does deserve a chance. How do we support the employers to make sure that such. That's a good transition for them as well, and that their their bottom lines are being met. They're getting productivity. They're getting trained people and people that can step into a role and hit the ground running.
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Oakville Room: So we're going to start off with the recruitment selection. We have 2 different pockets here, because we think that when it comes to finding talent there's a lot of activity and a lot of time that goes into that. So
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Oakville Room: the recruitment, selection, portion. So the career, foundation, and other and other employment service providers. We support you with the physical recruitment, part of finding talent, find finding, you know, a a new person to fill a role.
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Oakville Room: So if you have a a our opening when you partner with a the career, foundation, and or or other employment Ontario services. You can actually just share that posting with us, and we have the in-house capacity and individuals to help to circulate that posting.
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Oakville Room: We connect you with job seekers of diverse backgrounds and skills, because that's who we see all day, every day. Anyone that is out of work not attaining full time education, have the ability to walk into our centers, register online and get job search support. So that's an immediate talent pool.
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Oakville Room: And so we will connect you with those job speakers right away doesn't cost a thing
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we review, resumes, and pre-screen for you as well. So, having the ability to to have someone present a short list of candidates based on on your needs and and your requirements. We are able to do that as well. We refer individuals, individuals for interviews, and we arrange job fares.
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So if you are doing mass hiring, i'm. I want to think of S. Cb: Richard Ellis. Yeah, exactly, Even on trays when you're hiding for the facility side, you probably have volume of a needs. So we can help you coordinate meeting a whole bunch of people at one time going through First Level screening.
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so as you can see, by having a support system that can come alongside you and help you with these activities. It really saves a lot of time from the other. Hr. Functions that you need to do, because within a char recruitment is one thing that you need to take care of.
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So, having organizations that are funded to do this and come alongside employers to help you with. This is really what we want to come across today that this support is available.
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Oakville Room: And then another thing we do save money. I do want to make a caveat here. That community employment services. I will say we work mostly with entry level to mid-level careers, and we and we partner with
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Oakville Room: different staffing firms, When, for example, they have a really good relationship with an organization. They're working with them for top talent, but because the relationship is there, they also can help them with their entry level needs we partner with them as well. So how we help with that is, we also advertise your job opportunities on our website.
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the current foundation. Even though we're a nonprofit organization, I will say that we have the same business business opportunities and business mindset as a for profit organization. So we focus on marketing. We focus on outreach. We focus on making sure that our clients job seekers and employers through us have the best possible reach
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Oakville Room: and the best possible vis visibility, I would say so. We make sure that the drop posting that you share with us is not just within an or internal job secret database. We post it out for you as well.
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Oakville Room: And then we also some of the training costs that you're concerned about for those who qualify for the job through what we call training incentives, and i'm going to get into that a little bit more in the retention side but for your entry level to semi may semi-skilled type roles
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the Community Employment Service space is definitely an available resource. That can help you fill some of these rules quickly, so you can focus on whether internal operations are really focusing on partnering with a specialized recruitment first for your top talent.
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And so, if you have, if you're not spread too thin. If you have someone that can come beside you and help you will help you with some things. Then you can probably really hyper focus on some of some of the granular things that you need to work on.
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but with even just filling one position, I have Some of my employers tell me that even a receptionist. Well, there's such a thing anymore. But our call center what our trades construction labor you can get 500 400 resumes.
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Oakville Room: and with the opening of international students, and, you know, work permits, and that kind of stuff being able to drill down to that to fill 2 roles or 3 roles is a lot of time.
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Oakville Room: It's a lot of time, but commute employment services, that's all you're funded to actually do so. That is our business, and and that's the partnership that we have with with our employers.
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Oakville Room: So i'm going to turn over to lines to talk about the specialized programs we have how they come about, and and and what that. What does that mean to you? Sure, Thank you very much. So up here you'll see
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Oakville Room: some specialized programs. This Isn't: all we have. We just wanted to highlight some. How did these come to fruition? Basically, it's through conversations with industry leaders
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Oakville Room: really identifying a gap or identifying a need that they have that they're looking to fill. And how do we partner with
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Oakville Room: at certain levels of government private sector to fill those positions.
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Oakville Room: So i'm going to the 2 on the left, targeted towards youth.
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Oakville Room: So completing the circle program targeted towards.
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Oakville Room: I'm. Youth 15 to 30, and they
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Oakville Room: they have multiple barriers to employment. So
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Oakville Room: basically it's a program based out of 3 locations, mississauga Hamilton and Toronto. And we've had some really great results.
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Oakville Room: I think 83% of the people that went through our program
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Oakville Room: are still employed retain employment. So
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Oakville Room: part of all of these programs. You'll have the recruitment. You'll have the the learning, the the training. and then you'll have the wraparound support that the career foundation provides, and that wrap around support
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Oakville Room: is really into integral to
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Oakville Room: getting them to stick the the the retention so so completing the Circle
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Oakville Room: General Carpenter.
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Oakville Room: obviously looking at people getting people into the carpentry trade. This is in partnership with Mohawk College and the Carpenters Union
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Oakville Room: Number 18, I think 18. Okay, I was guessing a number there, but
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Oakville Room: and and basically we met with a a whole bunch of employers within the carpentry trade, and they were having a really hard time
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Oakville Room: in finding talent, and especially retaining talent.
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Oakville Room: So what this program does is it will give
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Oakville Room: entrance into the program.
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Oakville Room: and these are generally on unskilled entrance. It will give them about 14 weeks of training.
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Oakville Room: so they will
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Oakville Room: go through their women's. They will go through all their safety training, and they will get a really a
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Oakville Room: of what it means to be a a carpenter.
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Oakville Room: and when they get placed with our employers
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Oakville Room: they're going in there, and they're able to produce right away.
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Oakville Room: The the employers are not having to train them on. Here's how to measure.
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Oakville Room: Here's how to use a skills or or whatever. Here's how to frame. They're going to have that general basic knowledge, and
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Oakville Room: that really helps in retention as well, because
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Oakville Room: going through the program through the
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Oakville Room: the vetting of our of our participants. we'll be able to know who are the serious ones versus just if you're hiring them off the street. If they had a good interview. But they're not serious.
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Oakville Room: It's a problem, you may, you may lose them. So So those 2 over there are for youth empowering abilities program. This is supporting people with disabilities
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Oakville Room: getting them, providing the supports that they need to get them ready for the job market. And once again great success here and I have to read the number 86%
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Oakville Room: of the people that we have put through the empowering abilities program
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Oakville Room: retained employment after I leave it. 6 months. So they
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Oakville Room: we they were placed. and they stuck with it. The employers were extremely
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Oakville Room: pleased with the work they did, and it's just It's giving people a chance. Basically You're really looking at a lot of people who
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Oakville Room: have the skills. They just need the the confidence, and then going through the the program gives them the confidence that they need
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Oakville Room: to to perform. Well.
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Oakville Room: i'm going to skip this one because i'm going to let Shauna cover that one, because that is her
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Oakville Room: baby. She started. It runs it, and I would not do a justice. So i'm going to skip that one
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Oakville Room: Tereo Bridge training program. These are newcomers who have
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Oakville Room: in another country that they come to this country. We have 3 tracks, H. Fact
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Oakville Room: their field of study or their field of of profession. And what this does is it really prepares them for the Canadian market?
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Oakville Room: They have the skills
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Oakville Room: I'm. Probably a lot of wrap around supports to help them and educate also employers on. You know. There, there's these people out there. It's an untapped market. We're going to help them get ready for the Canadian market.
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Oakville Room: but they have the skills they've They've done it in their they've either studied or done it in their home country. They're just new, and
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Oakville Room: and it's a it's had great success as well. 83% retention there.
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Oakville Room: and lastly, the work fairly program.
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Oakville Room: and what this is is really looking to get self-identified women into it. The it sales sector.
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Oakville Room: So a a gap was identified in it. especially in sales.
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Oakville Room: And so this program prepares women. They go through training salesforce training all the training that they need
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Oakville Room: to be able to succeed in the it market.
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a key Part of this
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Oakville Room: program is really educating and working with employers
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Oakville Room: to get them to understand that this is available.
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Oakville Room: Success in this is this is kind of new. So I don't have any percentages. But I can tell you about 8 months in. We've already trained 92 women, and they're going through the the placement
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Oakville Room: come September, 144 women in Ontario Nbc.
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Oakville Room: Will be trained and then placed with it employers.
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Oakville Room: and then always thanks. And so the Ontario Home Builder's job. Already. Program is is the same thing, and I hope you're seeing a theme here where we identified a gap.
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Oakville Room: We came together. Industry representatives, candidate representatives, and we design a training program, and that's really the theme we're hoping to get across that this is a model that has worked for many years that any employer, any sector can really tap into
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Oakville Room: on your Home Builder Association. No different there. We all know the construction industry. Everybody's retiring tomorrow, so there is a huge labor shortage, and you know no surprise you on to the Ontario Home Builders Association has over 4,000 numbers.
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Oakville Room: So a lot of people they're they're gonna need to build home. So we know the a very aggressive home building goals that even just the city of Toronto has.
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So there was a need for labor shortage. The skills that the higher. The journals were there. The skilled traits were there, but they were finding that the labor shortage of construction labor was a great does a huge need.
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a community employment resource you, you get a more well rounded person, and because the training is actually informed by industry. We have advisory boards for each program. We have employers that coming in. We'd even do the training lead workshops. We're not making things up. We're not guessing what an industry needs.
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We really want industry to come. But come beside us so we can train the job seekers that maybe you're not tapping into as of yet. I don't want to backtrack a little bit when I say entry level to semi-skilled. Yes, that is the majority of the community we serve. We want to make sure we're helping those furthest removed from the market.
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They're furthest removed. They're not removed. So we're hoping to bring them back on while seeing the needs of the employers. And where can we meet in the middle, right?
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Oakville Room: We wanna make sure that our employers get as much visibility on the same social spaces that you are. We want to be there as well. So I wanted to show just even the reach of the clients. So we have our own digital job board at the core foundation. So even when we do a posting, we had this many unique visitors.
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Oakville Room: and I think that's even outdated as of a month ago, right? So just the additional reach without the additional cost is what I'm trying to bring across here. This is available literally as of today.
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Oakville Room: look at the training that they can actually do, and the training that they need. even though they are preparing this training plan for this one person, I find a lot of my employers and I've been in the space since 2,010. That training plan now becomes something that's new and revived that revise that they can use organization wide.
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Oakville Room: especially for the smaller employers and the medium-size employer. So and so that's how we one way we we on the side help with the training plan, because we partner with the employers to look at one specific job, and then that training plan can probably now be used in other areas as well.
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Oakville Room: for trades. We help with the registering and apprentice and accessing financial support. So with the new skill, trees, college and and and the new set up there there that that's going to be a one stop shop. But even sometimes the job seekers are you hire? They want to track their their hours. They're getting sponsors.
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and we conduct job training, job retention, training to produce to prevent and resolve some issues. So even having a mediator is someone in in between to help. But the whole point of these programs is to make sure that if you
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Oakville Room: which saves some time, and actually builds a retention rate a a little bit better that way than someone just like you said maybe that did really great in an interview, and then they start, and then you have all these things to be able to take care of
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and it's at no cost to them. you know. So this is also something you can, and when someone is constantly learning. They're constantly building confidence, and now they can take on different or more responsibilities at the workplace. That, and that goes a long way in retention as well that sense of belonging and growing and and constantly developing their skills. So we do have
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different services, like like go with Google Amazon with services. We have a program with accenture, and these are personal development Lms type courses that anyone can access to develop their own skills, and we offer that to employers, and we offer that to employers for the job seekers they hire through our programs.
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Oakville Room: accessing diversity and inclusion tools. So a guide for employers. So as we're all focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and belonging it's just great for employers to have something that they can go to really quickly. They can look at best practices, look at case studies
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so to hope i'm doing good for time to to wrap things up, because I do want to get into some Q. A just some service highlights. So you know, we connect with thousands of job seekers. We customize job placement, match and services, we there's unique programming for diverse talent. So if you're hiring women, youth.
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Oakville Room: Thank you. I do want to open up for sharing and discussions. I want to just go back to some of the challenges that we talked about when we started. Can you, just with just from what you've learned today, is there anything, or even the model that I talked about does. Do you see that being
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which gives them more ability to to to more ability to work in H back. So because that is a mandatory for the Canadian Government that G 3 we can't really transfer, but it does help them to go through that process faster, and they end up getting their G one in in in so much quicker than someone else.
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Oakville Room: We try to go to where the need is. I'm. A firm believer that the service providers. We need to work it out. So when someone comes to one person, it's a one stop shop for them, and we give them a resource and a package.
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Oakville Room: am I doing for time? So good? Wow! That's amazing.
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Oakville Room: well, and Shawn and I will be available.
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Oakville Room: Any questions. Please seek us out. and I think our contact information is there. So thank you all.
Workshop Agenda
- 12:00 PM - Check-in
- 12:15 PM - Workshop Programming + Lunch
- 1:15 PM - Networking
This Lunch & Learn workshop is free to attend!
Your admission includes a light lunch and refreshments provided by Oliver & Bonacini.
About our member:
As a charitable organization, The Career Foundation has been designing and delivering innovative skills training and employment projects on behalf of government and the private sector since 1988. They exist to create fair and equitable labour market access for marginalized and underrepresented groups and do this by connecting employers within growing industries to job seekers in their local communities.