Job Finders
Organization profile published 1979

Publisher:  Jewish Family Service Agency, Vancouver, Canada
Year Published:  1979
Resource Type:  Organization
Cx Number:  CX981

Job finders is an innovative program of the Jewish Family Service Agency geared to job counselling and orientation of Agency clients, a large number of whom are recent Russian immigrants.

Abstract: 
Job finders is an innovative program of the Jewish Family Service Agency geared to job counselling and orientation of Agency clients, a large number of whom are recent Russian immigrants.

Russian immigrants - the majority of whom are skilled - face a variety of difficulties as they try to get into the Canadian job market, e.g., skills applicable in Russia are not always appropriate in Canada; credentials are rarely acceptable or provable to Canadian professional associations; immigrants arrive almost destitute and take low paid jobs below their skill level. The Vancouver Russian community is also small; this, added to the fact that some immigrants were sponsored by an institution, makes personal needs for support and companionship an important issue. Such difficulties add to the usual problems of adjustment.

Job Finders works with each client individually, trying to ascertain skills and find a job suited to the person by linking skills with the needs of potential employers. The program also keeps a small registry of job opportunities. It hopes eventually to go beyond a crisis service by developing a "buddy system" of peer support to address some of the personal needs around life style and career. The program is run on a short-term demonstration grant from the United Way.


This organization no longer exists.