Eastern Ontario employers, get ready to hire new international talent without doing any paperwork. If you’ve had trouble finding Canadian workers for a specific skill set or you want to hire someone international long term, you can connect with Settlement Online Pre-Arrival (SOPA) to access a database of job seekers who have been pre-approved for permanent residency, but are scared to come to Canada without having secured employment.
Delivering no-cost pre-arrival services for job readiness and retention, this program is funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The goal of SOPA is to enhance the ability of pre-arrival immigrants to integrate into the Ontario labour market.
Free pre-arrival services for job seeker readiness, success, and retention include:
You may be worried that you don’t have time for all the paperwork involved with hiring overseas talent. And your staff are already slammed with other tasks as well. But don’t worry!
There is no immigration paperwork for you. Just get the talent you need.
SOPA is federally funded and the Ontario office is located in Ottawa. There is a SOPA office in every province to help you with recruitment and retention strategies.
The SOPA program is designed to make hiring overseas talent stress-free and seamless for eastern Ontario employers and employers across Canada. Just one of the many ways the region benefits from an Ontario immigration strategy. It is an efficient and effective way to hire international workers when you don’t have Canadian talent to fill those positions.
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