Career Mentorship Symposium
The Career Mentorship Symposium hosted by the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council (ERIEC) aims to provide resources and tools focused on the successful labour market integration of the global talent pool.
The symposium ties into Alberta’s 10 year strategy Building and Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce released in July 2006. The strategy focuses on four themes: Inform Albertans about education and labor market issues, initiatives and opportunities; Attract people to Alberta; Develop the knowledge and skills of Albertans as well as high performance work environments; and Retain people in Alberta’s workforce.
As an industry led not for profit organization, ERIEC; by means of the symposium will demonstrate the business community’s commitment to diversity and Alberta’s commitment toward Building and Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce. Sustaining Alberta’s economic prosperity relies heavily on its people. The drivers of economic growth, societal well-being and quality of life for future generations will increasingly rely on Alberta having people who are motivated, well educated, skilled, innovative, productive and adaptable.
Modeled after the existing Career Mentorship program, the Career Mentorship Symposium will provide a dynamic venue where newcomer members of Edmonton’s global talent pool gain valuable professional development advice that they can apply to effectively navigate the labor market.
In keeping with the outlined forum objective, the symposium aims to:
- enhance the career development competencies of skilled newcomer professionals and;
- broaden their understanding of how they can best apply their existing skills to the Canadian context.