Career Services for Foreign Trained Professionals supports immigrant women to practice their skills and gain experience needed to enter the Canadian workplace. Participants receive English language enhancement, essential skill training including digital skill building. Career planning includes individualized labour market assessment, employment skill building and job search support. Eleven weeks of classroom training is followed by 12 weeks of Canadian work experience. The program is available to immigrant women who are permanent residents or refugees with a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 7 or higher.
12 weeks of Canadian work experience
Program Notes: Funded by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Skills Focus: Soft skills: insights into the Canadian workplace, job search skills etc. Occupational skills: digital skills (such as MS Office Suite, Optimal Resume, Survey Monkey, Prezi), accounting skills (for applicable participants)
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (CIWA) is a non-profit organization and registered charity that recognizes, responds to, and focuses on the unique concerns and needs of immigrant and refugee women, girls, and their families. Fast Track Employment Training for Immigrant Women provides mid-skilled immigrant women training in one of 3 tracks, individualized support and employment skills training. The three tracks are Administrative Support Skills, Front Line Customer Service Skills and Protection Skills (security guard). The program is available to immigrant women who are permanent residents with Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4-6. CIWA provides Childcare Training Pathway Program that trains and assists low skilled immigrant women to obtain a Child Development Assistant Certificate. Participants receive English language enhancement, essential skill and employment skills training. The program is available to immigrant women with less than twelve years of education and Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 3-4.
Locations:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada