recruitment and selection of immigrants - hiring employees from the untapped labour source group...
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Recruitment and Selection of Immigrants - Hiring employees from the
untapped labour sourceGroup Opal
Anupreet Sidhu, Florence Kao, Nicholas Andrews and Vanja Radoja
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Contents
• A big picture of the untapped potential employees pool
• Explore the benefits of hiring immigrants and government initiatives
• Hesitations of hiring immigrants/ Barriers of immigrants to find employment
• Introduce the process and tips of hiring from this alternative labour source.
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The overview of current population and labour force
• As of April 1, 2011, Canada's population was estimated at 34,349,200; British Columbia was at 4,563,300.
• Immigration contributes to 70% - 75% of our country‘s net population growth in 2011. It is projected to be 94.7% by 2036.
• The percentage of Foreign-born population and visible minority are significant in major cities.
Foreign-born Visible Minority
% 2006 2031 2006 2031
Canada 20% 26 16 31
Vancouver 40 44 42 59
Toronto 46 50 43 63
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The overview of current population and labour force
• By 2026, most of baby boomers will leave the labour market.
• Immigrants accounted for 21.2% of Canada's total labour force in 2006. And it is projected to be 33% by 2031.
• Immigration as a source of labour will be 100% of net labour force growth by 2030.
• The labour force will become older and increasingly ethno culturally diverse. – Close to 1 out of 4 in the labour force could be aged 55 or
over by 2021.– By 2031, about 1 in 3 in the labour force projected to be
foreign born and/ or visible minority.
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Small Businesses in BC Businesses with less than 50 employees
• In 2010, small businesses in British Columbia accounted for 30% of the province’s GDP.
• Small business accounts for nearly half of all jobs in the province. 1,038,300 out of 2,466,000 jobs (July 2011).
• More than a million British Columbians are employed in small businesses.
• Economists estimate there will be more than one million job openings in British Columbia between now and 2015.
• Small businesses are particularly vulnerable when trying to deal with the impacts of labour shortages.
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Small businesses are particularly vulnerable when trying to deal with
the impacts of Labour shortages.• Labour supply gaps are harming small businesses: curtailed growth
in goods and services; reduced hours of operation; missed new/ expanded market opportunities; reduced customer service; reduced productivity; and, burned out owners/ managers and staff.
• Barriers to small businesses in BC being able to respond to labour supply challenges; – lack of basic work skills/ attitudes, – inadequate training capacity, – lack of human resources and succession planning capacity, – lack understand of various education and training, – little consideration is given to recruiting people from the four
designated groups, – lack of time, information and resources; and – barriers to recruit/ hire immigrants: only 2% of small businesses
considered recruiting or actually recruited immigrants as a strategy for dealing with labour shortages.
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New immigrants remain as a large untapped labour source
• Skilled Immigrants are highly educated. In BC; over 69% hold a postsecondary credential. The percentage of Immigrants with degree is double than local-born Canadian. (40% vs. 20%)
• Under-employment are very common. Highly educated immigrants held employment under low educational requirement jobs; retail sales clerks, truck drivers, office clerks, cashiers and taxi drivers.
• Immigrants tend to have lower employment rates in full- and part-time jobs compared to individuals born in Canada. Employment rate for immigrants still well below that of the Canadian born. 77.9% vs. 83.8% (2007)
• Unemployment rate is usually higher than Canadian born workers. 6.6% vs. 4.6% (May 2008)
• Immigrants tend to receive lower pay comparing to local born Canadian. $23.72 vs. $21.44 with the gap $2.28 per hour. It was widest $5.04 with immigrants landed within 5 years. There was also $5 hourly-wage gap in 2008 for university degree immigrants comparing with their Canadian-born counterparts.
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(Source: BC Stats, 2010 Labour Survey); Very recent immigrants (landed 5 years or less)Recent immigrants (landed 5 to 10 years ago); Established immigrants (10+ years)