Unlock Your Business Potential: Why Global Talent is the Key to Growth in London and Middlesex

Strategic and proactive employers are already tapping into global talent in London and Middlesex County - are you?

London is the fastest growing city in the province with much of this growth being attributed to immigration. With this influx of growth comes opportunity for local businesses to diversify their workforce and keep up with the unique demands of a rapidly growing population.

There are many benefits to employing global talent:

1. Provides businesses with a global advantage:

   • Immigrants and newcomers in London and Middlesex come from over 150 countries around the globe providing information and potential access to new global markets.

   • London and Middlesex is experiencing a growing shortage of skilled workers. Without global talent this shortage will continue to reach critical levels.

   • Immigrant attraction and retention will be the key to building and maintaining economic prosperity for London and Middlesex.

2. Fill skill shortages and innovate:

   • Recent immigrants (arriving between 2011 and 2016) have higher levels of post-secondary education compared to Canadian-born men and women.

   • This demonstrates the high level skill set that recent immigrants have to offer.

   • Yet, despite these skills, 15% of recent immigrants in the region are unemployed, in comparison to 8% of all the population in the region.

   • At the same time, 64% of reporting employers in the region are indicating that they had positions/jobs that were hard to fill in the last 12 months.

3. Enhance valuable language skills:

   • The most common languages spoken at home in London and Middlesex County other than English and French are Arabic, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Polish. Employees with multiple language skills open up opportunities for business expansion to emerging local markets and new global markets.

London and Middlesex County is expected to experience a growing shortage of workers in the next 10 to 15 years. What will your business do to welcome newcomer talent?

This information is brought to you in part by research done through or Employment Sub-council.

Source: Statistics Canada, Focus on Geography Series; 2016; 2019 London Region Employer One Survey; 20 CDRG Thematic Report of London, August 2019.