Looking for leaders: TRIEC calls for 6th Annual Immigrant Success Awards entries
Awards recognize recruiting, integrating and leveraging skilled immigrant talent
October 11, 2011 @ 09:00AM
TORONTO - The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) is pleased to announce the call for entries for the 6th Annual Immigrant Success (IS) Awards, sponsored by RBC. Each year, TRIEC presents the IS Awards to recognize innovation and leadership in integrating skilled immigrants into the Greater Toronto Region labour market.
To date, 25 trailblazers, employers and individuals, have been recognized. If you or your organization deserve to be recognized but aren’t yet among our alumni – don’t miss your chance this year. Employers and individuals are invited to apply or submit a nomination by Thursday, December 1, 2011 at www.isawards.ca.
There are four IS Awards:
RBC Immigrant Advantage Award
This award will recognize an organization that demonstrates the business impact of leveraging the skills of immigrants, yielding tangible results for both business and immigrants.
CBC Toronto Vision Award for Immigrant Inclusion
This award will recognize a unique initiative that breaks down employment barriers for skilled immigrants and has the potential to affect change beyond one organization. This innovative practice has the potential for wider impact because of partnerships.
Toronto Star Award for Excellence in Workplace Integration
This award will recognize ONE practice or a suite of practices related to ONE of the following: sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, integration, inclusion or promotion of skilled immigrants. The practice or suite of practices must be innovative, and fully implemented and established with positive results that are transforming the organization.
Canadian HR Reporter Individual Achievement Award
This award will recognize an individual who has demonstrated leadership and innovation in HR practice in integrating skilled immigrants in the workplace.
Winners will be recognized in the media and by their peers as leaders in an area of increasing importance to the Canadian economy. Each will receive a hand crafted IS Awards sculpture. RBC will host a reception to honour the winners in spring 2012.
Since the awards launched five years ago, over 25 employers and individuals have been recognized. Previous winners include CH2M HILL Canada Limited, Deloitte, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, George Brown College, I3 International, Nytric Limited, Pitney Bowes, Samtack, St. Micheal’s Hospital, Steam Whistle Brewing, Thales Canada, Transportation, Toronto Foundation for Student Success and Xerox Research Centre of Canada, as well as individuals from American Express Technologies, CIBC, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Procter & Gamble and TD Bank Financial Group. Read the winner stories here and check out photos from past receptions on Flickr.
Online applications can be completed in minutes. For full details, online entry forms and profiles of previous winners, visit www.isawards.ca.
A panel of senior human resource professionals, business executives and industry stakeholders will judge the IS Award submissions.
The IS Awards are a program of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), sponsored by RBC with media partners Canadian HR Reporter, CBC Toronto and The Toronto Star.
Quotes
“From our research we know that one in five Toronto Region employers has hired a skilled immigrant to help them expand globally and locally, and feels that employees with international education and experience are effective in helping them meet these business goals. We need to hear from those employers, so we can share their stories of success.”
“RBC's founding support of the IS Awards reflects our strong belief that diversity is a competitive advantage – and the winner stories prove it. The more employers tap the full range of capabilities of our workforce – to innovate, develop untapped markets and foster new relationships - the more competitive Canada will be in the global economy and the more prosperous we will be at home.”
“With over 90 per cent of our 100-person staff comprised of immigrants, we’ve leveraged that talent to respond to changing needs of mass merchant customers; to increase market share with smaller, diverse retailers; and to purchase parts from overseas suppliers,” says Royson Ng, President at Samtack. “Winning an IS Award makes us proud of our company culture and has resulted in lots of welcome media coverage – something special for a small business like Samtack.”
“There are lots of awards out there, but an award from TRIEC carries a lot of respect. The IS Award builds on our positive profile and is boosting our brand as an employer of choice.”
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The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) creates and champions solutions to better integrate skilled immigrants in the Greater Toronto Region labour market. www.triec.ca.
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