170 Black students are first Onyx Initiative cohort

Inaugural training and mentorship/coaching program for corporate Canada recruitment TORONTO – The Onyx Initiative, a Toronto based non-profit established to bridge the pervasive gap in the recruitment and selection of Black college and university students, and recent graduates for roles in corporate Canada, announced Thursday over 300 applications for its Scholars Program and the selection of 170 participants for the first cohort. This is both the result of a targeted outreach and engagement campaign with regional Black Student Associations, campus career centres, community organizations, and prominent social media forums, said the press release sent out by Bell Canada, which is...