Foreign Trained Worker Participation Project
With the sector's impending shortage of skilled workers identified, the Electricity Sector Council initiated a comprehensive one-year research project to review best practices for industry recruitment and employee integration within the electricity and renewable energy sectors. A national steering committee composed of industry, government and education stakeholders headed the project.
After extensive information-gathering, research, discussion and debate by a broad cross-section of the electricity sector, a final report was completed in March 2008. Generating Solutions: Review of Foreign Credential Recognition in Canada's Electricity Sector emphasizes the necessity for a comprehensive strategy to enable employers to more readily access a labour pool of workers with foreign credentials.
Links to Final Summary Documents:
Summary of Final Report for Education and Training Organizations
Summary of Final Report for Government
Summary of Final Report for Immigrant Serving Agencies
Summary of Final Report for Industry Employers
For more information about the Foreign Trained Worker Participation Project, contact us at (613) 235-5540 or by e-mail at info@brightfutures.ca.
Bright Futures in Canada Conference: Integrating Internationally Trained New Canadians in the Energy Industry
On November 7 and 8, 2007, the Electricity Sector Council hosted its first conference, Bright Futures in Canada: Integrating Internationally Trained New Canadians in the Energy Industry.The participants, representing more than half of Canada's current electricity trades workforce, discussed the potential of new Canadians joining the skilled labour workforce to offset the anticipated 40 per cent of jobs in the electricity sector that will be vacant due to massive retirement by the year 2014.