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BCTA Awarded $196,000 for Immigrant Driver Projects

February 22, 2013

The Immigrant Employment Council of BC has announced 11 projects, including one proposed by the BC Trucking Association (BCTA), to be funded under the $1.4 million Employer Innovation Fund (EIF) to assist employers, industry and business associations in developing initiatives and resources to integrate skilled immigrants into BC workplaces.

BCTA has been awarded $196,000 to develop a professional driver vocational assessment tool aimed at immigrant applicants for driver positions and an employer licensing and training resource.

The tool will be designed to assess job-readiness in terms of technical skills as well as with respect to communications, customer relations and other important qualities. The tool will be tested on 25 immigrants who are pre-screened and actively seeking employment in the trucking industry.

The employer licensing and training resource will be a reference that outlines the licensing and testing requirements, training regime, and other factors that employers identify as important information in assessing the qualifications of applicants with non-Canadian licences and/or experience.

BCTA will develop both projects over the next year for completion by March 2014.

 

 

 

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