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Quebec’s latest campaign aims to connect immigrants with employers

Quebec is the largest attraction point in Canada as the province enjoys a prestige of ‘special province with special provincial powers’. It is the only French speaking province in whole of Canada and an ultimate destination for French speaking people. Let us look at the latest update we have received from the province.

The province of Quebec has introduced a new website for immigrant job-seekers in Quebec. The website is the main attraction of a province-wide campaign launched past week with an aim to attract newcomers in the province outside Montreal area.  

The website is designed in French-language and reads emploisenregions.ca. It assists new permanent residents and temporary foreign workers inside the province of Quebec in discovering suitable employment in regions around the French province of Quebec. The website gives detailed information on available jobs in one’s area as well as provides a platform for free access to expert employment advisors and an assortment of free support services, such as developing a career plan and building a professional CV and also finding an apartment.

The driving purpose of this idea is to link skilled immigrant job-seekers with Quebec employers and integration service providers that are undergoing skilled labour shortages. The huge number of newcomers in Quebec has a tendency to settle in Montreal, the province’s largest and popular cosmopolitan city due to exciting Job opportunities. On the other hand, employers in other parts of Quebec are in high need of such skilled workers. This prevailing situation is what that the Mayor of Quebec City recently describe as “dangerous.”

“Our mission is to help immigrants make informed choices when it comes to their employment options, while helping them see the advantages of living in one of Quebec’s regions,” said Delfino Campanile, executive director of the immigrant assistance organization, Promis.  The Organisation of Promis is one of three Quebec organizations that are leading this employment challenge campaign, along with le Collectif and ALPA, in alliance with the Government of Quebec.

Another data has surfaced online that explains labour shortfall in Quebec’s regions outside Montreal. Job vacancies in the province were up by 39 per cent over the second quarter of 2017 — the eighth consecutive quarter that saw a year-over-year increase in the province.

Only two economic regions in the province of Quebec called the Capitale-Nationale and Estrie were considered great in year-over-year growth in job vacancies in the second quarter of 2018, as reported by Statistics Canada reports. In the intervening time, the province’s Côte-Nord and Nord-du-Québec, Chaudière–Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec economic regions were among the top five Canadian economic regions with the peak percentage of full-time job vacancies available.

The Conference Board of Canada has made estimation that the province of Quebec could face a labour shortfall of 292,000 workers by the end of year 2025. It further says that skilled immigrants are part of the solution and therefore the province needs to buck up and come up with such campaigns.

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Quebec’s newly elected government has vowed to provisionally diminish immigration in the province by 10,000 people, from around 50,000 per year to 40,000, in spite of calls to increase immigration from the Quebec Federation of Chambers of Commerce and other related business groups worried by the labour shortage in the province’s regions.