Staff Member: Job and Newcomer Centre

staff member: You go to all these websites and 95 per cent of the job postings are within the GTA, said Kapoor, who has an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and a master's degree in hospital administration from India, according to Metro News. I just never thought about that. Frustrated with the grim employment prospects, the new immigrant attended a job fair in Mississauga in November put on by the Newcomer Centre of Peel and a staff member asked if she would consider relocating outside of Greater Toronto. That's the mindset the Peel newcomer service agency is hoping to change with an innovative program, called the Rural Employment Initiative, which aims to connect newcomers with job openings in smaller Ontario communities. Youth from these communities are leaving for the big cities to study and when they finish school, they don't go back, said Oliver Pryce, the project's co-ordinator. Currently, the program serves any employer outsode the GTA, but ultimately it hopes to focus on communities with populations under 10,000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.