VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
If you have time to share your supply chain expertise with a non-profit organization that needs it, see the opportunities listed here.
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If you need supply chain volunteers to help deliver a program, contact info@supplychaincanada.org. The Council maintains a list of volunteers available across Canada. We can likely connect your organization with someone whose skills match your needs.
Help Newcomers Develop Canadian Careers
1. Mentoring Partnership Program, MicroSkills – Toronto
Through this program, skilled newcomers are matched with mentors based on their shared educational background, similar work experience and common career goals, and are helped with:
- Understanding Canadian workplace culture
- Establishing professional networks
- Improving their professional terminology
- Gathering information on local industries and potential employers
- Finding employment or job-training/placement opportunities
- Developing their self-marketing and confidence-building techniques
Participants also receive support and follow-up from a mentoring coach during and after the mentoring period.
For more information, contact:
Shanti Dhoré
Mentoring Coach
Community MicroSkills Development Centre
Centre of Excellence for Women and Newcomers
Toronto, Ontario
phone: 416-247-7181, ext. 2327
sdhore@microskills.ca
2. Workplace Connections, MOSAIC – Vancouver
Help a skilled immigrant settle into professional life in Canada through this volunteer program that matches skilled immigrants with Canadian professionals in an informal mentoring relationship for three months.
This is a great volunteer opportunity if you:
- Have an interest in other cultures
- Enjoy building relationships
- Like to coach and encourage others
- Enjoy a commitment with flexible times
Partners discuss workplace culture and professional issues. Mentors help their partners gain confidence in job search, explore career options, practice interview skills and build professional networks. While newcomers clearly benefit by having a skilled peer to help them, mentors also gain through a mentoring relationship: they learn about other cultures, develop relationships that truly make a difference, and help newcomers succeed.
Partners spend just a few hours each week together for about three months. Meeting times and place are flexible.
For more information, contact:
Astarte Sands
MOSAIC Workplace Connections
Vancouver, B.C.
phone: 604-254-9626, ext. 483
mentors@mosaicbc.com