Acces Employment Connections
The leading source of employment and training news, views and networking for your community 
DECEMBER 2009 edition
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Celebrating this Year and
Strategizing for Next

We recently gathered with our growing network of alumni, staff and supporters for the ACCES Employment Annual General Meeting. As always, it was a wonderful time to reflect and celebrate our recent accomplishments and to announce an overview of our strategy moving forward.
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Celebrating Diversity in the Workplace
at CIBC



As a leading North American financial institution serving 11 million clients in Canada and around the world, CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) achieved revenues of $3.7-billion last year. Not surprisingly, it takes a large staff to provide CIBC's wide variety of products and services to those various individuals, small business and commercial banking clients. Sharon Wingfelder, Vice President of Human Resources, heads a department responsible for recruiting for all levels of the bank.
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From Setback to Comeback



Procter & Gamble's Alan Rego (ACCES member) explains how he did it,
 and how you can too.
 

As a Consumer Relations Manager for Procter & Gamble Americas, Alan Rego has many important responsibilities on the job. But he also makes time to motivate other new Canadians through ongoing volunteer service. His efforts were acknowledged by the Toronto Star Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigrant Success.
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How to Boost Performance
in High-tech Talent


Teresa McGill, with ACCES' Workplace Communication Advantage, provides corporations with communication skills training.

Ongoing development of employees' English communication and cultural competence maximizes leadership and innovation potential, particularly in the culturally diverse high-tech sector.  However, communication development is often given last priority, and this can damage productivity if left unchecked.  Below are three common communication issues along with development solutions that proved effective.
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Walk of Fame celebration and AGM



ACCES Employment celebrated successful alumni at the 2009 AGM


On September 23rd, 2009,  ACCES Employment members, employees and alumni gathered at the ACCES Employment Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Walk of Fame Inductee Ceremony at the Brampton office to celebrate success in "keeping communities working".
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Partnership Produces Results

Insightful interview with remarkable mentor Patrick McDade.

As part of its roster of opportunities for new Canadians, ACCES Employment offers the Mentoring Partnership, led by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC). The program offers occupation-specific mentoring to skilled newcomers so that participants gain an understanding of Canadian workplace culture, identify whether they need to upgrade their skills
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VIEWPOINT
VIEWS TO USE
FEATURE INTERVIEW
CASE STUDIES
SUCCESS STORY
MENTOR PARTNERSHIP
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IN THE MEDIA
SERVICES
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Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell (centre) celebrates the "Walk of Fame" recipients at the ACCES Annual General Meeting on September 23, 2009. To learn more about the award nomination process, please read the "Success Story" feature in this edition of the e-newsletter. 



Munish Mohendroo, Vice President, Transaction Advisory Services at Ernst and Young LLP (right) with an attendee from the ACCES Employment Speed Mentoring® at Ernst and Young on December 1, 2009. CIBC is a proud supporter of Speed Mentoring®.


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