One Voice Thorncliffe Park Career Fair Press Release
Julia Pagel from CBC recognized One Voice Canada “Thorncliffe Park Employment Initiative” is able to connect new comers to top Canadian employers and recruiters. CBC shared One Voice Canada new comer coverage in the Metro Morning News on Monday, March 18, 2013. CBC’s Julia Pagel was touched by the heart breaking stories from the new comer job seekers who attended One Voice Career Fair held on Friday March, 15, 2013 at Thorncliffe Park.
Over 600 Thorncliffe Park residents attended “One Voice Career Fair”, top employers and recruiters of GTA participated our “Best In Class Career Fair”. Canadian Government Organizations, Forces.ca, Toronto Police, Toronto Fire Services, top GTA companies United Way, Forester, Home Depot, The Minto Group, A’ Carte Kichen, top recruiters The Staffing Exchange, Randstad, Manpower, Dragan Consulting, Stanford International College joined our career fair.
One Voice Career Fair exceeded every one’s expectations at Thorncliffe Park and we are pleased to learn that over 150 job seekers were short listed by different companies for various job openings. Few of them who attended our career fair are already been hired, such as Foresters shared with us whom they had hired so far for permanent positions. Rest of them are going through 2nd and 3rd interviewing process and hopefully talented individual will get their dream careers sooner.
We are the voice of the new comers to Canada. Thorncliffe is home to more newcomers per square foot than anywhere else in Canada. Most of the professional immigrants who qualify to come to Canada are “Hero” in their country of origin, however after landing in Canada they become “Zero” to Canadian socioeconomic fabric.
Thorncliffe Park (TP) community as you know, is very unique in many ways, sixty three (63%) of our community members have post-secondary education which is three times higher than the academic profile of any community in GTA. Yet this community is facing over 27% unemployment or underemployment ratio, which is more than three times than the Toronto city unemployment average.
Unemployment ratio in Thorncliffe Park is higher than Spain 26% (2012), Greece 26% (2012) and Afghanistan 15% (Source: Trading Economics). With over 33% of youth population lives in Thorncliffe Park which is the highest percentage of youth concentrated population across city of Toronto. Today’s Thorncliffe Park social economic fabric will define tomorrows Canada’s diversity powerhouse.
It is about time for new comers to take their destiny in their own hands. One Voice Canada Employment and Community Services understand the cultural, social and economic fabric of Thorncliffe Park community. We have the best employment advisers and HR consultants to connect talented job seekers to the top employers.
Listen to five minutes of CBC coverage will give you the ideas, how our career fair have positively impacted our Thorncliffe Park community. Please listen to CBC coverage of our event on the following link.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/
We are the voice of perseverance and imagination for all new comers and to all Canadians in general.
Contact us for your all your employment needs and we will guide to your career path that you deserve.
