Alberta Association of
Immigrant Serving Agencies

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EMCN: Careers in Business

The Careers in Business program overall objective is to assist Internationally Educated Professionals (IEP’s) with experience in business enhance a broad range of employability skills and explore career paths directly related to their previous industry or sector or alternative paths to employment in small and medium local businesses, not-for-profits, professional associations and accreditation bodies.

This program is delivered twice yearly to 15 eligible applicants each time.

Program start dates:

April 1, 2021
September 1, 2021
February 1, 2022
July 4, 2022

The program is 5 months in duration and includes:

12 weeks in-class, in both face-to-face and virtual settings, developing workplace culture and communication skills and exploring direct and alternative career paths in the Alberta labour market,
8 weeks of work experience with an Edmonton employer where skills learned in the classroom will be applied, and
Additional supported job search provided to all participants.

This brief report examines the context of referral in Alberta’s settlement and integration sector. Different approaches to referral are discussed,…

AAISA is convening quarterly settlement sector teleconferences to support increased collaboration, coordination, and communication between IRCC, the Government of Alberta,…

Facilitated by Action Dignity and Rural Development Network (RDN), this course will allow front-line settlement workers to gain an understanding of challenges that multi-barriered clients face, learn to apply an intersectional lens when identifying multiple barriers that clients may experience, enhance their skills in evaluating multi-barriered clients’ needs, become aware of best practices in working with multi-barrier clients, and become familiar with methods and tools to be used when working with multi-barriered clients. (Self-Paced version also available)

Scheduled Webinars run from 10:00-12:00 on the following dates:

Wed. Feb 17
Fri. Feb. 19
Tues. Feb. 23
Thurs. Feb. 25
Tues. March 2

Please email pd@aaisa.ca to request registration and include the following information:

Name of Course to be enrolled to
Name of the participant
Agency
Job title of participant
Email & Phone Number of participant
1-2 sentences on how this training will benefit them

Alberta Association of
Immigrant Serving Agencies

EMCN: Careers in Business

Referral in Alberta’s Settlement and Integration Sector

Alberta Settlement Sector Quarterly Teleconference

Supporting Multi-Barriered Clients (Facilitated Online)