Retain Talent
Improve English
You’ve secured your immigrant talent; now how do you make the most of your new hire? See strategies to improve English and provide support and additional resources.
You’ve found someone perfect — except they need stronger business English. Use the following resources to locate the right service or tool for you.
Canadian Language Benchmarks offers a free e-learning portal for HR professionals and employers, and assessors at http://elearning.language.ca/
Recent immigrants are twice as likely to have a degree than the Canadian-born labour force, and are four times as likely to have a graduate degree.
Business English Classes
Find business English classes near you:
Accent Reduction
Conduct a web search for “accent reduction” in your area to find tutors or classes.
Customized Language Training
Employers with a large enough employee base may wish to consider providing or subsidizing customized, in-house, industry-specific ESL training. Conduct a web search for “custom language training” in your area to find services.
- See sample language analyses of occupations - Each Occupational Language Analyses (OLA) provides a description of specific language and occupation-specific tasks based on standardized occupational standards.
- See guide for developing occupation specific language assessement tools based on Canadian Language Benchmarks.
