Guide for Service Providers

Guide For Service Providers

As a person providing services to skilled immigrants, you play a vital role in linking immigrants to the information they need to successfully acquire employment in BC. This site is one more tool for you to:

1) assess skilled immigrants readiness to seek work in BC in their occupation
2) identify key web links for information on skilled immigrant/employment issues

If you are in touch with skilled immigrants before they come to BC, offer this website as a tool to help them prepare.

How to Use the Employment Readiness Tool

This Employment Readiness Tool is divided into five sections.

1. Welcome

2. Predictors of Success

This list of predictors was developed from interviews with skilled immigrants, service providers, ESL educators and employers. It is a starting point for discussion with Skilled Immigrants about either their preparation to immigrate (by phone or email) or to discuss their steps to success in acquiring employment once in BC.

Possible exploration activities:

Link directly to success stories www.jobsearch-in-Canada.com

Link to the Canadian Immigrant newspaper www.theCanadianimmigrant.com

Link to Roadmap to Success - MCAWS website: www.mcaws.gov.bc.ca/amip/ipq

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3. Employment Readiness Matrix

The Matrix is intended for self assessment of readiness in 6 of the predictor areas. Each square of the matrix is linked to the section of the tool that links you to web sites, many with specific self-assessment exercises and information specific to that predictor.

The Matrix can be used as an independent research tool for skilled immigrants to pursue alone or as an exercise to facilitate a relationship with skilled immigrants while assessing their employment readiness. The concrete, step by step approach to employment readiness, encourages a sense of progress while useful activities are accomplished and new skills learned.

This Matrix is a downloadable record that immigrants can use as basis of communication with employers, settlement workers, educators, employment counselors, government personnel and regulatory bodies about their level of preparation. If used effectively the tool will reduce or eliminate multiple assessments between different service providers, as the skilled immigrant negotiates systems here in BC to access information and ultimately, work.

Using the Matrix online or in hard copy:

Review the 4 step instructions at the top of the Employment Readiness Matrix.

The immigrant can pick any "Area of Preparation" in which to start. In some areas they may be at Level 5 and in some at Level 1.

Review the "Readiness Level" and click on the one they are currently working on. This will take them to the explanation of that Level and link to web based assessments and information specific to that area.

Work through the Matrix and assist the immigrant with connections to local resources that relate to that "Readiness Level".

As they move through the Matrix, encourage them to collect documents in a file or portfolio to be presented to other service providers or employers as required

Employment Readiness Web Sites

This begins with an explanation of what is required in each square of the Matrix and active web links to key web sites to assist immigrants to move forward in each "Area of Preparation".

The web sites vary in terms of what they provide. Some have self-assessments (English Language and Credential Recognition) and some provide information. Web sites are enhanced with specific "Click on" instructions to direct the person to the exact page of the site that addresses that "Readiness Level".

Please inform us immediately if a link is broken or the steps to the page are no longer accurate.

4. Service Provider's Guide

5. Contact Us

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