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Needs Assessment and Environmental Scans (2002-2006)Credentialing and Employment of Skilled Immigrant Workers in the Fraser Valley Regional District – To develop alliances and partnerships (educators, immigrants, and employers) that will identify recommendations that will assist immigrants with professional training. Northwest Immigrant Skills and Services Project – To provide a skills inventory of landed immigrants, identify relevant support agencies and service providers to assist in labour market attachment, and identify employers seeking matching skills within the North coast communities of Prince Rupert, Port Edward, Masset, Queen Charlotte City, Skidegate, Tlell and surrounding First Nations communities of Metlakatla, Port Simpson, Hartley Bay and Kitkatla area.
Skilled Immigrants and Labour Market Access in the Capital Region – To conduct a needs assessment, environmental scan, and facilitated strategic planning process involving a broad range of stakeholders to build regional capacity to address the labour market integration of skilled immigrants in the Capital Region District. Inventory of Assessment Tools for Skilled Immigrants – To inventory and analyze the delivery of existing assessment tools used within the Lower Mainland to assess skilled immigrants in the following areas: English language proficiency, essential skills, academic qualifications, technical skills, employability skills. Enhancing the Labour Market Attachment of Skilled Immigrants within the Okanagan – To complete an environmental scan of career assessment and planning services and integrated bridging services for skilled immigrants, support the conceptualization and development of resources, to assess the capacity of existing resources, and to develop a series of recommendations that will inform future labour market attachment initiatives within the region.
Resources to Provide Direct Labour Market Information to BC’s Skilled Immigrants – To develop a listing of professional and trade associations to support the flow of essential information to the skilled immigrant job seeker and to develop recommendations to assist professional and trade associations to develop services specifically designed for the skilled immigrant.
An Employer Survey of the Under-Employment of Skilled Immigrants – To identify skills and attributes required by a variety of employers to facilitate the labour market entry of skilled immigrants. A Survey of Skilled Immigrants with Long-Term Attachment to the Labour Market – To identify the skills, attributes, and course of action taken by skilled immigrants who have overcome employment and language-related barriers and established long-term labour market attachment. Services Review to Identify Providers of English Language Instruction with a Labour Market Component in BC – Additionally, the Settlement and Multiculturalism Branch of the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services provided funding to support a province-wide survey to identify what labour market and language services are available and identify accessibility for labour market destined immigrants.
HRSD/IQP Pilot Forum This initiative intended to organize a one-day forum involving IQP pilot proponents and Human Resources Skills Development (HRSD) regional and local staff to identify outputs of the projects that would be of value to HRSD and to identify areas where further work might be done.
This pilot was launched in partnership with:
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