Our Services
Employability Services (Optionelle)
FEMA
"Immigration and Work Go Hand in Hand"
Focused on the professional integration of immigrant women
Successfully integrating immigrant and recently arrived women into the workforce
- Emphasizing factors that foster employment integration
- Recognizing the balance between qualifications and the job
- Updating essential employment knowledge, skills and abilities
- Learning to cope with a new reality and assimilating other work rules
- Finding common reference points between the home country and host society
- Learning the rules, mechanisms and workings of the job market
- Understanding Quebec’s cultural code and work culture
- Adapting to the realities and values of the Quebec job market
Find a job that will build on your professional and personal skills by enrolling in the:
Personal program that includes:
- Preparing for the selection interview
- Job-search techniques adapted to the Quebec context
- Recognition of work experience
- Managing homesickness and barriers to integration
- Understanding the job market culture and practices
- Job retention
Seven-week program to:
- Take stock of your professional situation
- Explore the opportunities to exercise your profession
- Learn about the Quebec job market
- Identify your professional and personal skills
- Draw up your employment plan
- Implement a realistic plan of action
- Follow up on your plan of action
Additional services in all three programs:
- Interview simulations
- Employers present in workshops
Info
Email: optionelle@centredesfemmesdemtl.org
Phone: (514) 842-6652
Fax: (514) 842-6376
Free services with the participation of:
Emploi-Québec et le Ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés
culturelles. 