Skilled Workforce

Talent and Skills in Canada: The Best of All Worlds

The advances in biotechnology are driven by scientific excellence, determination and focus, while the business of biotechnology is driven by innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.  All require talented and highly skilled people.  You deserve to know that Canada is home to some of the world’s leading biotechnology talent at very competitive costs.

Canada attracts and develops scientific expertise and world-class researchers, thanks to sophisticated life sciences infrastructure that provides researchers with the opportunity to be involved in leading edge discoveries. Universities across the country provide graduate training in life sciences-related disciplines, in addition to programs such as biochemistry and microbiology. The pool of educated persons meeting the demands of the knowledge economy is immense with fully 98% of Canadian youth enrolled in secondary education. The World Competitiveness Yearbook recently ranked Canada No. 1 in the world in the share of its population attaining tertiary level of education.

At the same time, Canada offers unparalleled cost competitiveness. The KPMG Cost Competitiveness 2006 report found that Canada had the lowest labour costs, one of the most location-sensitive cost factors, among the G-7 countries. In fact, Canada has a 13% labour cost advantage relative to the United States. Furthermore, total payments for Canadian statutory and other benefits are 28% of salary and wages, compared with 35% in the U.S., largely because of lower medical insurance costs.

Canada is committed to developing highly skilled labour into the future. Canada continues to make on-going, sustainable investments in life sciences human resource development. Canada is a leader in the G-7 regarding the share of GDP devoted to public education.

Canada is geographically situated at the hub of the industrialized world with the Americas to the South, Europe to the East, the Pacific Rim and Asia to the West. Canada is an open economy and society, having long welcomed ideas and people from all over the world. Canada offers the biotechnology industry a highly skilled, motivated and multicultural workforce and labour cost competitiveness, plus an outsta

Tap into Canada’s skills and you tap into the world.  Remember - Canada is your innovation partner.

• BioTalent Canada

BioTalent Canada (formerly the Biotechnology Human Resource Council - BHRC) helps Canada’s bio-economy industry thrive globally. As a non-profit national organization of innovators leading our bio-economy, BioTalent Canada anticipates needs and creates new opportunities, delivering human resources tools, information and skills development to ensure the industry has access to job-ready people.
For more information visit the BioTalent website at www.biotalent.ca

• Immigrating to Canada as a Skilled Worker

  Skilled workers have education, work experience, knowledge of English or French and other abilities that will help them to establish themselves successfully as permanent residents in Canada.

  Applying to come to Canada as a skilled worker is not difficult. Consult the Citizen and Immigration Canada (CIC) website to find all the information and forms you need to make your application.
  For more information visit the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website at www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/index.html