EmployESBC will address the current employment and underemployment situation facing the English-speaking Black Community (ESBC) in Quebec. This talent matching virtual job fair will be held on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021, 11 am -2 pm EST and will be hosted online using the Brazen Virtual Job Fair Platform.
The objective of EmployESBC is to enable businesses to fill vacant positions with English-speaking Black Quebecers that are educated and/or have experience in specific fields. As all event participants will be preselected, you are guaranteed to find candidates with the skills and qualifications that your business requires.
► The Black struggle in Canada has been, unlike most other immigrants, one in which the Black community has occupied the bottom rungs of all the various layers: search for an identity; search for a sense of belonging, equal access, representation, participation, etc.
► According to the 2016 Canadian Census the unemployment rate of the English-Speaking Black Community (ESBC) was 13.5% but the total population was 7.2%.
► With the same educational attainment, members of the Black community in Quebec are significantly more likely to be unemployed and have a significantly lower median income.
► 2000 and 2016 employment and education data from Census Canada shows that whether a Black person was born here or outside of Canada and came here; whether the person has a degree, a certificate, a diploma, a trade or none of the above ; whether the person is young or old, male or female that he or she would be more likely than a White person to have lived out his or her life exposed to low incomes, and unemployment.
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