 APEGGA
PILOTS A
NEW EVENT CALLED
'JOB FIND'
Volunteers
Required
APEGGA is piloting a new
and potentially semi-annual event called “Job
Find” – and Members who volunteer are critical to the success of
this event.
The Job Find events being
offered in Calgary June 27 and
in Edmonton June 29 are initiatives intended to assist internationally
educated grads (IEGs) in engineering and geoscience. As this Job Find is a pilot
only, we will be evaluating its success and planning other similar events in
future according to need and response.
WHY
IS APEGGA DOING THIS?
CCPE has released final
reports from their three-part study “From Consideration
to Integration”, with recommendations for associations to assist in the
integration of foreign trained professionals. Many of these recommendations resonate
with APEGGA’s initiatives to help IEGs in Alberta who, as our parents perhaps
did, have come from other countries to start a new life. In spite of having one
or more degrees and international experience, IEGs often require assistance in
re-establishing themselves in their new country.
WHAT
IS JOB FIND?
Job Find combines a day
of employment-related skills training with career and employment opportunities.
Speakers will present tips and techniques for successful job interviews and provide
suggestions for effective networking. At 4:30PM, participants will be able to
offer their resumes to representatives of actively hiring companies represented
at display tables. Participants will be job-ready, having completed any required
language, technical or cultural training.
Due
to the seminar-based format of the day, there is limited seating for 100 participants
in Edmonton and 120 in Calgary. The fee for the all-day event will be just $10
to secure commitment but to avoid cost being a deterrent for anyone.
WHERE
DO YOU COME IN?
At 5:30PM we will begin
a pizza and pop mixer with professional members. That’s where you come
in - we require 50 professional members in Edmonton and 60 in Calgary to interact
with seminar participants. We are looking for Member volunteers interested in
talking with the IEGs, providing career advice and answering questions about
work and life in our province.
CALGARY: June 27, 2005
MacEwan Student Centre,
MacEwan Hall
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
EDMONTON: June
29, 2005
Coast Terrace Inn
4440 Gateway Blvd.
If you are
not away on vacation at that time, please consider volunteering for Job Find.
You are critical to the success of the event and to Alberta’s internationally educated engineers
and geoscientists being enabled to help continue building the success of Alberta’s
technological growth.
Here’s how you can
volunteer: contact Flo Primeau at fprimeau@apega.ca before June 22,
2005
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