New Global Skills Strategy is Attracting Top Tech Talent to Canada and Helping Businesses Grow
As countries around the globe close their doors to immigration, Canada is working to keep its doors wide open. With the success of a new corporate immigration program, Canada is attracting the world’s top tech talent. Many of these workers may have otherwise gone elsewhere, had attitudes towards corporate immigration been different. Canada is now among the leading options for skilled foreign workers, and its immigration strategies are proving to be helpful for newcomers and Canadian businesses alike. For more information on Canada’s business immigration system, contact a corporate immigration law firm.
Global Skills Strategy By the Numbers
According to a recent CBC News article, Canada’s Global Skills Strategy has already helped many highly skilled workers immigrate to Canada this year. Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada launched this two-year pilot project in June. In the first two and a half months since its launch, the program has helped more than 1,600 people find jobs in Canada.
The Global Skills Strategy is attracting highly skilled workers, including top tech talent, to help Canadian businesses fill labour shortages. This corporate immigration program fast-tracks the application process for highly skilled foreign workers. It is also making the application process easier for the immediate family members of applicants.
Appealing Attitude
While this program makes it easier for applicants to work in Canada, anti-immigration sentiment across the globe has also made the country more appealing globally. While other countries placed strict limits on immigration, Canada worked to increase and improve immigration targets. This effort is paying off, as Canadian employers benefit by attracting the world’s top tech talent.
Silicon Valley in the U.S. has always been Canada’s (and indeed, the world’s) leading competitor for foreign tech talent. But now that President Donald Trump is making immigration to the U.S. very difficult, Canada has a competitive edge. Welcoming corporate immigration programs and progressive societal values are much more appealing than the negative immigration views by some policymakers in the U.S.
Canadian Tech Boom?
Canada’s tech sector has been growing for years and has always relied on foreign talent. However, the tech industry is booming and current Canadian talent lacks the numbers needed to help tech companies grow. Businesses need skilled workers, and quickly. Corporate immigration law firms are helping in this regard.
The Global Skills Strategy is proving to be an effective program to help businesses fill positions quickly while making the immigration process more efficient for highly skilled foreign workers. Canada’s tech industry and economy can only improve with effective programs such as the Global Skills Strategy.
For help recruiting foreign talent, or finding a job in Canada, contact a corporate immigration law firm today.
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Arghavan Gerami
Arghavan Gerami is the Founder and Senior Counsel at Gerami Law Professional Corporation ('PC'), a full-service immigration law firm in Ottawa, Ontario. Since 2011, Ms. Gerami has focused her practice on immigration and refugee litigation. Prior to that, Ms. Gerami worked at the Ministry of Attorney General and the Department of Justice and had the privilege of serving the Honourable Mr. Justice M. Evans at the Federal Court of Appeal on immigration and administrative law appeals. Ms. Gerami contributes to the Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ms. Gerami has also published numerous journal articles and presented at various immigration and refugee law conferences and events across Canada.