Settlement & Related Resources
Knowledge is power. The following publications represent current data, analysis, position statements and best practices in the areas most critical to immigrant and refugee settlement in Burnaby and British Columbia.
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- Free Guide – Hire and Retain the best employees
- Hiring and Retaining Employees
- Newcomer Entrepreneur Site in 8 languages
- IEC-BC Open Access Library of Employer Tools and Resources
- Tip Sheet: Creating Barrier-Free Job Descriptions
- Tip Sheet: How To Create A Culturally Inclusive Work Environment
- Hiring and Retaining Skilled Immigrants: A Cultural Competence Toolkit
- CPHR British Columbia & Yukon
- WorkBC Employment Resources: The Diversity Advantage
- WorkBC Centre – Burnaby-Brentwood
- Perceptions of Employment Barriers and Solutions
- Survival to Success: Transforming Immigrant Outcomes
- Occupational Guides for Immigrants (2013)
- Planning to Work in Canada? An Essential Workbook for Newcomers
- Canada-British Columbia Job Grant Fact Sheet
- IEC BC HR Tip Sheets
- Wage gap between immigrants and native-born persists after 20 years in Canada
- Calculator: How much money do people just like you make?
- What Gets Measure Gets Done – By Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusive (2013)
- Immigrants in Self-Employment (2013)
- Business Employing Temporary Foreign Workers – Map (2013)
- Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Everything you need to know about temporary foreign workers
- Jobs in Canada: Where, What and For Whom?
- Immigrants working in regulated occupations
- Job-Related Training of Immigrants
- The results are in: Mentoring improves employment outcomes for skilled immigrants (2013)
- Working with Others Tip Sheet
- Hiring Immigrant Talent: Online course
- Online Tutorials Target Skilled Immigrant Opportunity
- The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants’ Economic Outcomes (2013)
- ROI on diversity lacking: Survey (2013)
- Global Talent Connection – ICTC (2013)
- The Hire Guide – Helping BC’s construction employers connect with New Canadian skill sets
- Employer Guide for Hiring New Canadians and Immigrants: Underground Miner
- Path2Work Program
- Understanding Workplace Values Around the World
- How does Full/Part-time Employment Status affect Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants over time?
- Connecting Immigrants to Employment: Canadian Ideas at Work (2013)
- RBC Diversity and Inclusion Report (2013)
- Mentoring Pointers (2013)
- WhoPlusYou: Precision Matching for People, Employers and Communities
- ALLIES Toolkit – Mentoring Technology (2012)
- Think Fast: Ontario Employer Perspectives on Immigration Reform and the Expression of Interest System
- BC Employer Consultation Report: Recruiting & Retaining Immigrant Talent (2012)
- Global Talent for SMEs: Building Bridges and Making Connections (2012)
- Promising Practices: Connecting Educated Professionals with Sector-Appropriate Employment (2012)
- Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal (2012)
- Attracting, Retaining and Integrating Skilled Immigrants – An Analysis of Canada’s Leading Employers (2011)
- Integration of Internationally-educated Immigrants into the Canadian Labour Market: Determinants of Success (2011)
- Immigration Consultation – Employers Need to Respond
- SMEs in Our Cities -Review a statistical snapshot of a local labour market and the skilled immigrant demographic in these fact sheets (2010)
- Key Challenges Faced by Immigrants (2010)
- Immigrant Workforce Integration in B.C.: Research on Programs, Services and Resources to Support B.C. Employer Hiring Immigrants: May – November 2009
- WelcomeBC Glossary – Guide to Terminology Usage in the Field of Settlement and Employment for Newcomers to Canada
- Facts and Stats: Barriers to employment
- Welcome to Canada – a new, more comprehensive guide and a new web tool to help newcomers settle and integrate in Canada (2013)
- WelcomePack Canada
- Newcomers’ Guide (2012)
- Video: Burnaby – It’s all here
- Community Health Profiles
- Immigrant Talk – share journey, life and dreams in Canada
- Canada Gazette – An Official Newspaper of the Government of Canada (2013)
- Outsmarting Our Brains: Overcoming Hidden Biases to Harness Diversity’s True Potential (2013)
- Who do I need to show my Social Insurance Number (SIN) to? Tips for protecting your confidential information
- Centre for Intercultural Learning: Country Insights – Go Beyond the do’s and don’ts with Country Insights
- Implicit Associations Test: This test will help you become aware of your own cultural biases and prejudices
- Lights on Diversity in Leadership – Learnings from the Toronto Region (Final report)
- Immigration beyond MTV (2013)
- 2011-12 annual report on WelcomeBC Settlement and Integration Services (2012)
- Discover Canada: This booklet will help you prepare to become a Canadian citizen (2012)
- Multicultural Health Programs and Resources Available to Residents of Vancouver (2012)
- Rethinking immigration: The case for the 400,000 solution (2012)
- Connection and Engagement: A survey of Metro Vancouver
- An Analysis of Immigrant Attraction and Retention Patterns Among Western Canadian CMAs
- Pro-immigration Canada: Social and Economic Roots of Popular Views(2011)
- New Immigrants’ Assessments of Their Life in Canada (2010)
- Best Practices in Settlement Services
- Neonology Toolkit (2012): It is full of tools to support you in creating your own initiatives that are relevant to you & your community.
- Caring for Kids New to Canada: A guide for professionals working with immigrant and refugee children and youth
- What do we know about immigrant seniors aging in Canada? A demographic, socioeconomic and health profile (2013)
- Interactive tool to compare rates of ESL, special needs and gifted children
- Philippine Youth in Canada (2012)
- Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children (2012)
- Childhood Immigration and Acculturation in Canada (2012)
- Immigrant Children and Youth in Focus
- Reversal of Fortunes or Continued Success? Cohort Differences in Education and Earnings of Childhood Immigrants
- Youth Electoral Engagement in Canada (2011)
- Immigrant Seniors in British Columbia (2010)
- Fair PharmaCare Plan
- Healthy Living Multilingual Resources for Newcomer Parents and Children
- Return Migrant or Diaspora: An Exploratory Study of New Generation Chinese-Canadian Youth Working in Hong Kong
- Stalled Development of Immigrant Filipino Youths: Migration, Suspended Ambitions and the ESL Classroom
- Honour For Women
- A Fair Way to Go: Access to Ontario’s Regulated Professions and the Need to Embrace Newcomers in the Global Economy (2013)
- Pan-Canadian Quality Standards in International Academic Credential Assessment – Phase II: Final Report (2012)
- Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
- Canada Improves Foreign Credential Recognition for Skilled Trades and Healthcare Occupations
- Best Practices: Strategies and Processes to Obtain Authentic International Educational Credentials
- An overview of discourses of skilled immigrants and “Canadian experience”: An English-language print media analysis
- National Language Placement and Progression Guidelines
- Canadian Language Benchmarks | Support Kit
- The CLB-OSA – an online self-assessment tool for people who are interested in assessing their English as a Second Language (ESL)
- What are B.C.’s most valuable university degrees?
- Metro Vancouver’s most educated neighbourhood – Map
- NEW Language Assessment Tool – ICTC (2013)
- Canadian Language Benchmarks for Study and Work – Understanding the language proficiency levels required to work and study in Canada (2013)
- An Occupational Language Analysis
- A Guide for Trades & Professional Organizations: Developing an Occupation-Specific Language Assessment Tool Using the Canadian Language Benchmarks
- Occupational Benchmarking Research: Benchmarking the English Language Demands of the Nursing Profession
- Language for Work: CLB Essential Skills for ESL Instructors
- Can Do Statements – The Can Do Statements are based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)
- Canadian Language Benchmarks Online Self-Assessment (CLB-OSA)
- Language Skills and the Social Integration of Canada’s Adult Immigrants (2012)
- Guide to Terminology Usage in the Field of Credentials Recognition and Mobility in English in Canada
- World Education Profiles
- BC Jobs Plan 3 Year Progress update September
- Where have the jobs been going in the Lower Mainland?
- Monthly Snapshot – Information and Communications Technology Council (2013)
- People without jobs, jobs without people
- The Canadian Immigrant Labour Market 2008-2011 (2012)
- Immigrants working in regulated occupations
- Language Skills and the Social Integration of Canada’s Adult Immigrants (2012)
- The Human Capital Model of Selection and the Long-run Economic Outcomes of Immigrants
- The Great Canadian Skills Mismatch: People without jobs, jobs without people and MORE
- The role of migrant labour supply in the Canadian labour market
- Redrawing the Map: Globalization and the Changing World of Business – Five business responses to globalization
- Labour Market Characteristics of the BC Immigrant Population (2010)
- Continuity of Employment for Immigrants during the First Four Years in Canada (2011)
- What are Immigrants’ Experiences of Discrimination in the Workplace? (2011)
- Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market – The gap for racialized workers
- Who Is Still Standing in Line? Addressing a Mismatch of Skills and Jobs in the Canadian Labour Market
- The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants’ Economic Outcomes
- The ‘Gender Gap’: Findings and Directions for Addressing the Position of Immigrant Women in the Labour Market
- Refugee myths and facts
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Hub
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Newsletter – Issue 5
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Newsletter – Issue 4
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Newsletter – Issue 3
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Newsletter – Issue 2
- ISSofBC Refugee Readiness Newsletter – Issue 1
- Caring for Syrian Refugee Children: A program guide for welcoming young children and their family.
- Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program – Sponsorship Agreement Holders
- Special Edition: Syrian Refugee Report #1
- Population Profile: Syrian refugees
- From Crisis to Community: Syrian Refugees and BC Economy
- AMSSA Special Bulletin: Syrian refugee resettlement
- Online Resources: Syrian refugee resettlement
- Students from Refugee Backgrounds: A Guide for Teachers and Schools
- Refugee Health – Vancouver | A practical resource to support clinicians who provide care to refugees in British Columbia
- Housing Challenges for Immigrants and Refugees (2013)
- Changing Faces, Changing Neighbourhoods Government Assisted Refugee Settlement Patterns in Metro Vancouver – (December 2010)
- Government-Assisted Refugee (GAR) Bulletin
- Refugee statistics and trends in Canada and BC- 2013
- Government tables annual immigration plan (2015)
- IEC-BC Summit report calls for coordinated immigrant talent plan
- Government Streams for Hiring Foreign Workers
- New Caps for Federal Skilled Worker and Federal Skilled Trade Programs, and Canadian Experience Class
- Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration (2013)
- Policy on Removing the “Canadian experience” barrier
- Economic Immigration Class – Trends for BC and Canada
- Is migration good for the economy?
- B.C. and Canada Immigrant Landings by Class (1985 to 2012)
- Return and Onward Migration among Working Age Men
- International Migration Outlook 2013 – OECD
- New interactive maps of ethnicity in Metro Vancouver – 2013
- Religious patterns mold Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods (2013)
- NHS Data Tables
- Highlights of NHS on News (2013)
- Population growth in Canada: From 1851 to 2061
- Immigration Data, Facts and Trends (2012)
- A new residential order? The Social Geography of Visible Minority and Religious Groups in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in 2031
- Immigration Policy – Shaping the future: Canada’s rapidly changing immigration policies (2012)
- Citizenship and Immigration Canada – News Releases( 2012)
- Projections of the diversity of the Canadian population
- Educational Portrait of Canada, 2006 Census: Immigration
- New report: Government as Employer of Skilled Immigrants
- Making connections: Ottawa’s Role in Immigrant Employment
- Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration
- Integration: What Works? Research report
- New Survey Research Reveals Canada’s Attitudes towards Citizenship (2012)
- Quantifying the Effects of the Provincial Nominee Programs
- BC Provincial Nominee Program Evaluation Report (2011)
- Strengthening Canada’s Economy – Government of Canada Progress Report on Foreign Credential Recognition (2011)
- Foreign Qualification Recognition and Canada’s Intergovernmental Landscape
- Foreign nationals working temporarily in Canada (2010) – By Statistics Canada
