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COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AT A GLANCE

This vignette, prepared in partnership with Canadian Heritage, briefly presents some initiatives carried out in official language minority communities (OLMCs) across the country. Various themes will be introduced in each issue of the newsletter. This issue features recruitment initiatives.


RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES

A partnership between Global Affairs Canada, the Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne and the Réseau des cégeps et des collèges francophones du Canada facilitates international business development activities for various markets around the world, including the recruitment of French-speaking foreign students for institutions in Canada’s Francophone minority regions.

The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (OCEO) has put in place a formal mechanism for consulting OLMCs as part of a pilot project to facilitate the recruitment of workers capable of providing services in both official languages during federal elections. This will allow the OCEO to improve its tools, focus its initiatives, develop action plans that take into account the realities of OLMCs and engage its members during election recruitment periods.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s Client Support Centre (CSC) has updated its pool of bilingual candidates to attract more talent in the new remote work environment. By leveraging technology, the CSC was able to resume its intensive hiring strategy, despite the COVID-19 restrictions, through a fully virtual hiring process. The CSC was therefore able to participate in a pilot project using Vid-Cruiter and automate its entire hiring process without compromising the quality of successful candidates.

Polar Knowledge encourages the publication of competitions open to the public in l’Aquilon, the French-language newspaper distributed in the Northwest Territories, to recruit candidates from the French-speaking community.

To attract bilingual talent, Transport Canada (TC) Atlantic has strengthened its relationship with the University of Moncton to identify opportunities to attract bilingual students to a career at TC. In addition, TC Prairies and the Northern Region initiated discussions with the University of Saint Boniface to explore the hiring of bilingual students from the region.

Congratulations to these organizations on their efforts to recruit OLMC members! Would you like to share a best practice that your organization has in place? Let us know by contacting the Council Secretariat!