Refugee Career Jumpstart Project

Our first activity is to provide employment related services to newly settled refugees in Canada to accelerate their career preparedness and access to meaningful employment economic opportunities for the purpose of helping to alleviate poverty in the refugee community. Beneficiaries will be selected by their refugee status and level of economic need. There will be no fees charged to any of our beneficiaries. The organization will meet this goal through three steps: The first step is the intaking of refugees via a comprehensive assessment of their career-readiness using a Salesforce CRM-integrated online form combined with individualized intake interviews to create an economic profile for each client to determine their needs. We seek to determine the medium to long-term employment goals refugees have their prior work experience and other factors which are relevant to their employment outcomes. With this profile created we will be able to deliver unique services and solutions for each client that will effectively help to find them meaningful employment to relieve their economic situation. The second step is to work with the refugees to accelerate their career readiness through targeted services including: foreign credential recognition resume building skills training workshops and industry mentorship. These services will help ensure they can leverage their experiences and skills to help them succeed in finding employment. The third step is to help provide access to meaningful employment. Once clients are career-ready they become part of our talent pool. From there clients are continually referred directly to partner employers who have meaningful employment opportunities and want to recruit refugees. Our second activity is to engage in non-partisan public policy development process in order to relieve poverty of refugee people experiencing poverty. We plan to manifest this purpose through engaging in public policy development processes at international conferences such as those set up by the United Nations or other governmental and non-governmental bodies. At such conferences and meetings with relevant stakeholders and policy makers we seek to educate them on the interests of specific refugee groups in order to advance their interests and human rights.

EMPP Jumpstart has been funded by IRCC to support the EMPP program's economic immigration pathway to Canada. Our EMPP programming is very similar to our existing employment related services we offer in Canada however in the EMPP program we work with refugees located abroad seeking to be employed in Canada. We connect them with employers here and facilitate their employment and immigration. As part of IRCC's efforts to see more refugee jobseekers from Latin America participate in the program IRCC funded Jumpstart to make qualifying disbursement grants to non-qualified donee organizations in Latin America to support outreach and participation of refugee jobseekers in the region.