Employer Seminars

Conestoga College, along with other community colleges across the province, is pleased to offer you free "Are You Ready?" workshops exclusively to small and medium sized businesses.

Market research indicates that despite the current economic current situation, a skills shortage is occurring or is about to begin in many industries. To weather these changes, local businesses must be proactive about hiring resources and techniques. The “Are You Ready” workshops are designed to assist you to effectively recruit and hire skilled immigrant talent and improve your organization's cultural competence by:

• Understanding business drivers for hiring skilled immigrants
• Understanding challenges with recruiting and selecting skilled immigrants
• Understanding limitations of traditional practices to source job candidates, to screen individuals and resumes and to interview candidates
• Developing strategies to work with hiring managers to increase the likelihood of identifying qualified skilled immigrants in interview settings
• Identifying strategies to increase the likelihood of identifying qualified skilled immigrants through resume screening

For a complete list of the workshop dates, times and locations across the province or to register, please visit www.collegeconnect.on.ca/areyouready.