Become a Corporate Partner

The Mentoring Partnership Program matches new newcomers (mentees) with mentors who share the same profession. Over a four-month period of 24 hours, mentors help mentees to:

• Understand the Canadian workplace
• Establish professional networks
• Identify skills required by the profession
• Gather information on local industries and employers
• Identify and seize employment or job training opportunities

Who are the mentors?

Mentors are individuals who:

• Are established in their own profession
• Have gained insights that may help accelerate someone else’s career development
• Are willing to share their experience and knowledge
• Believe in the mentees’ potential to succeed

Who are the mentees?

Mentees are individuals who:

• Have education, professional training and work experience gained outside Canada
• Have lived in Canada for three years or less
• Are unemployed or working in jobs unrelated to training
• Are highly fluent in English
• Are actively seeking work

Corporate partners…

• Market the Mentoring Partnership internally to employees
• Encourage their staff to become mentors
• Host orientation events for the mentors

Business Drivers

• Skilled newcomers may prove to be valuable resources for understanding product and service needs in ethno-specific markets
• Skilled immigrants bring international expertise and offer employers competitive advantages in the global trade
• The Canadian born workforce is shrinking

Process

• Mentor/mentee pairing is based on criteria such as education background, work experience and career goals
• Mentors and mentees attend orientation to prepare them for their respective roles
• Mentors and mentees negotiate the objectives of the learning agreement
• Mentors and mentees participate in ongoing evaluation through contact with program facilitator on a monthly basis