Breaking down barriers in the job market

February 25, 2021 Henrike Wilhelm Audio, Audio Stories, Featured 0

Economic Immigration Ideas Lab hopes to find new approaches to include immigrants in the workforce.

Sharon McLennon is director of the NL Workforce Innovation Centre in Corner Brook. McLennon says there are many barriers for newcomers who hope to enter the job market in the province, but also solutions. Submitted photo
Sharon McLennon is director of the NL Workforce Innovation Centre in Corner Brook. McLennon says there are many barriers for newcomers who hope to enter the job market in the province, but also solutions. Submitted photo

Henrike Wilhelm
Kicker

The issue of how to attract newcomers to Newfoundland and Labrador and how to make them stay once they’re here has been an issue of fierce debate for years. A ‘Economic Immigration Ideas Lab’ at the NL Workforce Innovation Centre in Corner Brook now hopes to bring new answers to an old problem. Kicker’s Henrike Wilhelm explains how.

 

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Student journalist in my second year at CNA. International student from Germany living in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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