The presentation from the PINs quarterly meeting held on Sept. 16, 2015

1. PINs Quarterly Meeting #2
September 16, 2015
Volunteer Toronto

2. .
Goal:
To work collaboratively with professional immigrant associations
to increase their capacity to connect their skilled immigrant
members to employment.
Objectives:
• Raise awareness of the associations to skilled immigrants
and to employers
• Foster collaboration between the associations and key
partners – employers, professional associations, service
providers, government, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Develop leaders of professional immigrant associations by
providing learning opportunities and refer them as experts on
immigrant employment at consultations and in the media.

3. Purpose of the Meeting
1. Build relationships by sharing information, best
practices and success stories and discussing
opportunities to collaborate
2. Learn about programs/initiatives that help build the
capacity of PINs associations
3. Provide input on PINs program planning

4. Agenda – TO BE REVIEWED
Time Agenda Item
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Registration, dinner and networking
6:00 – 6:10p.m. Welcome and introductions
6:10 – 6:20 p.m. Volunteer Toronto presentation
6:20 – 6:45 p.m. Information sharing
6:45 – 7:25 p.m. Network Mapping – Survey Results
7:25 – 7:35 p.m. PINs Updates
7:35 – 7:45 p.m. Connector Program presentation
7:45– 7:50 p.m. Best Practices – UnstoppableMe.ca
7:50 – 8:00 p.m. Next meeting and wrap-up

5. Who’s in the room?
PIN Associations
• ARGANA – Association des
Femmes Maroco-Canadiennes
• Association des Senegalais de
l'Ontario
• Association of Professionals in
Thorncliffe
• Alliance of Technology and Science
Specialists - ATSS
• Communication, Advertising and
Marketing Professionals - CAMP
Networking
• Canadian Hispanic Bar Association
• Council for Access to the
Profession of Engineering - CAPE
• Chinese Workers Support Network
Professional Group
• Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants - CIMA Canada
• EXATEC Ontario
• HispanoTech
• Indo Canadian Community of
Professionals
• Manyatta Community Network
• New Canadians Media
Professionals
• Paralia Arts Network
• PINs@YorkU
• UnstoppableMe.ca

6. Who’s in the room?
PIN Partners
• Active Career Advancement Project
(S.U.C.C.E.S.S.)
• Alternative Career Pathways
• Humber College
• Ryerson University - Magnet
• Thorncliffe Neighborhood Office
PIN Observers
• Immigrant Filmmakers
• Serbian Young Professionals
• Office of the Fairness
Commissioner

7. Follow us on Twitter!
@TRIEC
#TRIECPINs

8. Volunteer Toronto Presentation
Nimira Lalani Researcher/Educator
Claire McWatt Education Assistant

9. Grassroots Growth Project and
Useful Resources for PINs
Nimira Lalani, Researcher/Educator
nlalani@volunteertoronto.ca
416.961.6888 ext. 249
Claire McWatt, Education Assistant
cmcwatt@volunteertoronto.ca
416.961.6888 ext. 233

10. Grassroots Growth
Build Capacity amongst volunteer-run
organizations in Ontario to manage
volunteers effectively, through providing
tailored workshops, resources and
mentoring
Research
Resource
Development
Outreach Pilot Testing
Program
Launch

11. Deliverables and Timeline
 Research and Analysis March – September 2015
• 3 consultations with agencies
• 4 focus groups across the City
• 1 online survey across Ontario
• In process of identifying 8 most useful topics for grassroots groups
• Environmental scan report finished Sept 30
 Resource Development October 2015 – March 2016
• Develop a suite of training sessions and resources including
manuals, templates, webinars, and an online forum for a peer
mentorship program
 Outreach October 2015 – March 2017
 Pilot Testing and Evaluation February – August 2016 WHERE PINs
WILL BE INVOLVED
 Program Launch August 2016 – April 2017

12. Pilot Testing
• PINs and other volunteer-run
organizations in Toronto
• 4 workshops
• Starting in February through until June of
2016
• Will help us insure the materials will be
useful for grassroots groups, and allow us
to make changes before the final launch

13. OTHER OPPORTUNITIES AND
SERVICES FROM VOLUNTEER
TORONTO

14. Trailblazer Series
Free for grassroots groups!
Recent subjects:
• Volunteer-Led Social
Media in Action
• Finding and Keeping Great
Board Members
• Resolving Conflict Like a
Pro
For more info contact:
Camara Chambers
416.961.6888 ext. 224
cchambers@volunteertoronto.ca

15. Subscriptions Program
Community Subscribers
• Free for volunteer-run
groups
• Up to 6 Posts
• Access to our
Intermediate and
Advanced training
manuals
• And more!
For more info contact:
Kasandra James
416.961.6888 ext. 225
kjames@volunteertoronto.ca

16. Online Learning Centre

17. THANK YOU!
Follow is on Twitter: @VolunteerTO
Like us on Facebook:
facebook.com/VolunteerToronto
Check out our Website: www.volunteertoronto.ca

18. Information sharing
What are 1-2 things related to
employment that your
organization would like other
PINs associations and partners
to know about the upcoming
quarter (events, opportunities to
collaborate, success stories)?

19. Network Mapping
Penny Scott
Diversification and Business Development Coordinator,
Health Nexus
Robyn Kalda
Health Promotion Specialist – Technology Specialization,
Health Nexus

20. Network Mapping and
Visualization:
Strengthening your connections and
partnerships
Teleconference information:
647-788-1817 or 1-877-765-2693 (N. America)
Participant Passcode: 611-877-1073
Adobe Connect for the slides:
http://healthnexus.adobeconnect.com/networkmapping/
PINs Network Mapping & Analysis
September 2, 2015
Penny Scott
Robyn Kalda

21. Agenda
1. Review of project goals
2. Review of patterns in network maps
3. An overview of the results
– Methods/Approach
4. Overview of survey results
– Demographics
– Connections-live
5. PINs Network Analysis
– Applying network theory to achieve your goals

22. PINs Mapping Project Goals
PINs is a mature network looking to renew
and revitalize itself
Network mapping will be the tool to:
visualize existing ties and connections
amongst key stakeholders
identify new opportunities for relationship
development
design strategies to create new connections,
partnerships, collaborations amongst the
stakeholders

23. 5. Connectors
4. One-way trail
6. Isolate
Making the abstract visible
2. Clusters
1. Node
3. Link

24. Newideascome
fromtheperiphery Periphery
Core

25. Overview of survey results
Methods/Approach
– Electronic survey
Demographics
• Number of respondents: 55
– Added organizations: approx. 50
• Level of involvement
– Very involved 69%
– Somewhat involved25%
– Only occasionally involved 6%

26. Geographic Breakdown

27. From those that responded to
the question
All:
• felt that increased awareness of their
association’s profile among immigrants,
employers and/or key stakeholders since
joining the PINs program
• had participated PINs activities last year

28. Current
Involvement with PINS
• Not very involved 6%
• Only occasionally involved 27%
• Somewhat involved 44%
• Very involved 23%

29. Perceived benefits of PINs
membership
Applied Learnings:
– Absolutely 44%
– Somewhat 56%
• Increased Awareness
Of Immigrant Value
– Absolutely 78%
– Somewhat 22%
Benefitted From PINs
– Absolutely 89%
– Somewhat 11%
• Helped Support
Members
– Absolutely 73%
– Somewhat 22%
– Not at all 5%

30. Expertise & skills

31. Connections
Live maps!

32. Who’s missing?
Some observations:
• Private Foundations
• Ontario Trillium Foundation
• Social enterprise

33. Next Steps
• What collaborations/ties already exist?
• How do you leverage existing
relationships?
• What’s next for the network?
• Who else is missing from the network?

34. Network Mapping – Other Findings
PINs annual evaluation

35. Network Mapping – Draw Winners
• Galo Ginocchio – HispanoTech
• Nestor Perez – Council of Filipino-Canadian Professionals in Ontario
• Elena Rakitskaya – Alternative Career Pathways
• Joe Ferreyro - Sunlife

36. PINs Updates – Annual Check-ins
- Goals:
- Keep abreast with any changes in leadership
- Learn about associations’ successes and challenges
- Offer support
- Process:
- 56 associations contacted
- 34 responded
- 29 calls completed
- Learnings:
- New leadership is not always aware of the benefits of PINs
- Associations respond to connection requests coming through PINs website
- Support needed: more job postings, events for job seekers, publicity

37. PINs Updates – TMP Info Session
Event summary:
- 37 registrations / 8 associations
- 20 attendees
Feedback:
• “Having a mentor will be very useful in my job search.”
• “The best aspect of the session was networking with other internationally
trained professionals; the outcomes appear promising and positive.”
Things to consider:
- Can we better promote such events?
- How can we get higher turnout?

38. PINs Updates – Opportunity for
PINs Members
- York Region IEP Conference –
Monday, Nov 9
- Richmond Hills (Hwy 7 & Leslie)
- Promote widely!

39. PINs Updates – Ethnic Media Briefing
• Objective: Strengthen TRIEC’s relationship with key ethnic
media in order to strengthen our ability to reach immigrant
audiences
• Strategy: Invite target ethnic media to a ‘briefing’ to discuss
what TRIEC has to offer (human interest stories, immigrant
employment expertise etc.) and how we can support them
• The Ask: To help us identify the most important media in your
ethno-cultural group and facilitate connections to contacts at
those media (or just provide details)

40. Connector Program
Anna Kostecka
Connector Program Coordinator, TRIEC

41. Presenter // Date //
CONNECTOR PROGRAM
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42. CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT

43. HOW DOES THE PROGRAM WORK?
CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT
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44. PARTICIPANTS CONNECTORS
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45. SUMMARY
PROGRAM
• 54 Participant - Connector Introductions
• 11 Participants completed the program
• Almost all of Participants met with their Connectors ( 3 are still
arranging)
OUTCOMES
• Feedback after Participant-Connector meetings is almost always
extremely positive
• First success stories
• 11 Participants found jobs (attribution analysis to be applied)
CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT

46. POST-MEETING FEEDBACK
• Participants
• Meetings are relevant to their career goals, productive and they
would recommend their Connectors to others
• Receive referrals within a week from the meeting or longer
The connector I met in this meeting sets the standards of the program to
very high levels indeed.
[Connector] was awesome. She gave me lots of great advice on how to
get my career goal. She is very approachable, resourceful and insightful
and mainly she has a strong willingness to help!
CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT

47. POST-MEETING FEEDBACK
• Connectors
• Find the meetings productive and Participants are perceived as
professional and well prepared for the meetings
• Feel confident hiring the Participant or recommending them to a
colleague
[Participant] was very well prepared and we were able to discuss some
of the issues she has had with applying for jobs. I am going to explore a
number of different connections to set her up with the right one.
It was a very productive meeting. [Participant] came prepared with
questions to ask, and was clear about the kind of connections he prefers.
That makes it easier for me to check my contacts and see which ones
would be suitable. I was also able to give him some insight about the
industry and trends.
CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT

48. FUTURE
• Completing the pilot, analyzing learnings, sharing the results
• Understanding the relationship with the Mentoring Partnership and
PINs
• Enhance the program model and improve systems
• Grow the program
– Train others to deliver it
– Integrated service delivery model
CONNECT. LEAD. IMPACT

49. Funded by 603-250 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z5
T: 416 944 1946
www.triec.ca
THANK YOU

50. Best Practices – UnstoppableMe.ca
Coaching members on informational interviews

51. AICA Model
(Turning Strangers to Sponsors)
Awareness
Involvement
Commitment
Action/Ambassador

52. Closing remarks
• How can we use what we have
learned today with our
members?

53. Next PINs Events
• Employer networking event
o November – date TBA
• Next Quarterly Meeting:
o Wednesday, December 2, 2015

54. Thank You!
www.networksforimmigrants.ca
Twitter: @TRIEC, #TRIECPINs
LinkedIn: PINs Insider Community