The Information Communication and Technology Council is set to launch a new tool to help foreign-educated IT workers prepare for the Canadian workplace.
The Canada Readiness Tool is an online self-assessment, that runs in both English and French, designed for foreign IT workers looking to work in Canada.
The self-assessment allows potential job-seekers to test themselves against required competencies, workplace culture workplace communication.
The online tool has already been tested in pilot programs in India, China and the Phillipines as well as across Canada.
The Canada Readiness Tool will launch officially January at ICTC's 2010 Immigration Initiatives Partnership Celebration in Ottawa.
The online tool was developed with funding from the Government of Canada's Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
A not-for-profit sector council, the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC), formerly the Software Human Resource Council,... [more]
Robert Janelle
Robert Janelle is a freelance technology journalist living in the National Capital Region. He's spent time covering the Ottawa start-up scene as a columnist and feature writer with his work in National Capital Scan, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Sun, Kingston Whig-Standard and The Escapist. He also suffers from a mild addiction to video games.
