Accenture

Unemployment Rate Drop Dept: According to the pro-bono study by Accenture, a business consulting company, immigrant participants in job-mentoring programs saw their unemployment rate drop from 73 per cent to 19 per cent a year after completing the program, according to The Star. Mentoring is a low-cost, high-impact intervention that delivers on the promise of opportunity made to newcomers that make Canada their home every year, it said. The results are in. The time to expand mentoring is now. Matching skilled immigrants with Canadians in the same fields helps newcomers build professional networks and boost their career prospects, a new study finds. Their average annual full-time earnings also increased by 62 per cent, from $36,905 to $59,944, said the report released Wednesday by ALLIES , Assisting Local Leaders with Immigrant Employment Strategies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.