Hiring foreign workers and recent graduates can be a strategic approach to address labor or skills shortages within a company. Here’s a breakdown of steps you can take to achieve this and support employees in their journey to permanent residence:

1. Employ a Skilled Worker or Tradesperson: This option involves either recruiting a new employee from outside Canada or supporting an existing employee in acquiring permanent residency.
2. Utilize the Atlantic Immigration Program: Designed for employers in Atlantic provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Labrador), this program facilitates the hiring of skilled workers or international graduates. To participate, you must become a designated employer.
3. Issue a Valid Job Offer (for Express Entry): Express Entry manages applications for permanent residency in Canada. To hire through this system, you must create a job offer that meets specific criteria to support the candidate’s application.
4. Employ a Home Child Care Provider or Home Support Worker: This section outlines the eligibility requirements for these roles and guides you on making a job offer to a qualified candidate.
5. Employer Outreach Services: Here, you’ll find information and resources to assist employers in understanding and utilizing various immigration programs for hiring foreign skilled workers.
6. Engage a Provincial Nominee: Certain provinces and territories have their immigration programs where they nominate skilled workers for permanent residency. This section explains how to collaborate with a province/territory for this purpose.

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Learn whether a Labour Market Impact Assessment is required to hire a temporary worker, which work permit program is suitable, the post-hiring procedures, and how to assist your employee in extending their work permit.

1. Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA): An LMIA is a document from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) that permits Canadian employers to hire foreign workers if no Canadians or permanent residents are available. Employers usually require an LMIA for hiring temporary foreign workers unless exemptions apply under specific programs.
2. Employing Temporary Foreign Workers with an LMIA: Upon obtaining a positive LMIA, employers can hire through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), ensuring that hiring foreign workers won’t negatively affect the Canadian labor market. In Quebec, employers must follow the province’s immigration authority’s specific requirements for hiring temporary foreign workers.
3. Hiring Without an LMIA: The International Mobility Program (IMP) enables employers to hire foreign workers without an LMIA under certain conditions, such as through international agreements like NAFTA or specific pilot programs. Employers must submit an offer of employment through the Employer Portal and meet other requirements to hire under the IMP.
4. Post-Hiring Responsibilities Without an LMIA: Employers must adhere to the terms outlined in the job offer and ensure that temporary workers maintain legal status in Canada throughout their employment.
5. Recruiting French-Speaking Workers: Employers outside Quebec can hire French-speaking or bilingual foreign workers through programs like the Express Entry system, Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs), or other pathways that prioritize language skills.
6. Supporting Ukrainian Nationals: The Job Bank streamlines processes to assist employers in providing job opportunities to Ukrainian nationals in Canada.
7. Extending Worker Permits: Employers and workers must follow specific procedures, submit required forms, pay fees, and choose between online renewal or paper forms when extending a temporary worker’s permit.
8. International Experience Canada (IEC): IEC facilitates employers in quickly filling temporary positions with skilled foreign workers aged 18 to 35 through reciprocal agreements with partner countries.
9. Employer Outreach Services: Resources are available to help employers navigate immigration programs and hire skilled foreign workers effectively.
10. Employing International Students: Employers can hire international students while they study in Canada or after graduation via programs like the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (PGWPP) or other student-related pathways.
11. Global Skills Strategy (GSS): The GSS offers certain employers expedited processing times (as short as 2 weeks) for work permit applications for highly skilled foreign workers.Top of Form

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The FIN Program helps employers in select locations fill skilled labor shortages by hiring skilled newcomers. These employers can be federal government departments or agencies, government organizations, or businesses in specific cities like Fredericton, Halifax, Moncton, Ottawa-Gatineau, St. John’s, Toronto, and Victoria.

Who can you employ? You can employ skilled newcomers for roles in administration, project management, policy and research, procurement and material management, and computer science.

Benefits of hiring through FIN: Hiring skilled newcomers can enhance your workplace by increasing productivity, bringing fresh perspectives, and expanding local and global networks.

Qualifications of candidates: Candidates possess strong language skills, job-readiness training (if necessary), and have been assessed and evaluated by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Intern Support: Interns are paired with mentors and provided training sessions. Employers can support interns by allowing them to attend professional development sessions.

Hiring Procedure:

1. Send the statement of criteria via email or submit the online request form.
2. Receive candidates’ profiles within five business days.
3. Review profiles, conduct interviews, and check references using VidCruiter.
4. Prepare a letter of offer and initiate security clearance.
5. Pay your hired candidate(s) their salary.

Employer Support: Employers receive a resource guide, tip sheets, mentoring opportunities, and other resources throughout the internship.

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