The Community Foundations of Canada recently reported that unemployment levels among university educated newcomers to Canada are four times higher than the national average. It's a pretty damning statistic.
Let's face it by itself the idea that new immigrants would have more trouble finding work isn't too surprising. Work experience is so vital in choosing the right candidate after all. But these are university graduates! And four times is quite a disparity at that level.
What this stat suggests more than anything is that many companies are not in fact hiring the best candidates for a job, but the ones that are the easiest to hire. Just like stopping for a drive through burger instead of making a sandwich, sometimes doing the quick and easy thing just seems okay but for your long term health it's simply a recipe for disaster. Sometimes when your hiring process includes a healthy serving of diversity it can take longer to complete, but the results are worth it.
Hiring someone based on the work they can actually do for you rather than just the fact that someone felt the name on the resume was more "familiar" is just a smart thing to do. Statistics though say that many companies simply aren't doing it.
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