Chosen as one of Best Employers for New Canadians for 2011:
By Kristina Leung and Richard Yerema, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
(
Mar 27, 2011)
Some of the reasons why St. Michael's Hospital was selected as one of Best Employers for New Canadians 2011:
in partnership with Career Bridge, offers newcomers paid internship opportunities and recently launched a formal Career Bridge support program, which includes an orientation package for managers that describes the experience of a new Canadian job-seeker
developed a mentoring program for employees who are new to Canada in association with the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC)
is a founding partner of the CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses, which helps prepare nurses from other countries for the College of Nurses of Ontario examination -- also offers workshops, mentoring opportunities, job-shadowing, and work placements to graduates of the Centre
partnered with the Michener Institute to develop the "Perioperative Technical Assistant Program" to help internationally educated professionals gain work experience
in 2009, developed an Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) Transition and Integration Program, which is funded by the Government of Ontario and Citizenship and Immigration Canada
the Program provides resources to IEP's who are in their first three years of employment -- resources include supporting the development of employees' communication skills and providing them with networking and mentoring opportunities
Background Information
Established: 1892.
Major Canadian hiring locations: Toronto ON.
Full-time employees in Canada: 3,448.
Part-time employees in Canada: 865.
New jobs created in Canada last year: -3.
Percentage of employees who are women: 76.7%.
Of managers: 71.26%.
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