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- 加中食品协会 CCAFIP News Update as of July 20, 2008:
1)加中食品协会
CCAFIP is preparing a Fall Seminar (Late October and Early November, 2008) - Sustainability (Raw and Packaging material yield improvement - challenge of commodity price increase, Energy conservation, Environmental protection, Packaging Footprint Improvement, Water conservation, Waste reduction) in Food Industry. This is a brand new area could provide new immigrants with professional background to start new business or find new jobs. Details to follow.
2) CCAFIP in the local Chinese news:
a) Dr. Lihu Yao is one of the steering committee member for SiChuan Earthquake relief committee. One of the achievement is negotiating a minimal matching charge from Canadian International Development Agency and Red Cross Canada.
b) ON July 17, Jian Liu spoke to Xingdao news reporter and promoting Chinese Food Safety and "Traceability program". http://www.ccue.com/ccp_east/2008-07-17/1216347693d1161188.html.
c)Ms Di Wang chaired Sobeyes Canada Sichuan earth quake relief effort.
3)On June 4 and 5, 2008, Jian Liu was invited to present at Guelph Food Technology Center to present Sustainability case studies. Over 100 attenedants from Ontario Food industry attended. Jian also discussed potential corporation between CCAFIP and GFTC with GFTC President and VPs.
4) April 5, 2008, CCAFIP had a very successful Session on Food Industry Career forum. Over 40 people attended the session at CPAC conference room.
1:00 PM Opening remark by Di Wang
1:05 PM Food Handler certificate by Yingying Chen
1:25 PM HACCP and Food Safety Auditor by Lihu Yao
1:55 PM Break
2:00 PM Lean Manufacturing and TPM in Food Industry by Alfred Yu
2:30 PM Six Sigma and Productivity in Food Industry by Jian Liu
2:55 PM Q & A
3:10 PM Adjourment
Most of people were interested in the job opportunities in food industry. Several people were also interested in food import and export opportunites. All the speakers shared with attendees on their job search experience and tips on landing ideal jobs. Over all food industry is the number 1 job opportunity in Canada. It is the right field to focus for jobs and business opportunities.
Several open positions were filled with Bento Noveau company. Currently positions are available for people with both electrical and mechanical certificates to work as Industrial Technician in food companies. Please e-mail jianliu828@aol.com.
中国食品,Chinese Canadian Food Association, Chinese Food, Food safety, Chinese Professionals, Chinese business, Chinese Canadian, Agri-Foods, made in china, Chinese food industry stocks"
2) China publish Food Safety White Book to clarify Food Safety situations in China and import/export. See =《中国的食品质量安全状况》白皮书(文)" !!!
3) On June 10, 2007, CCAFIP hosted "Food and Packaging Engineering Sector Needs You" sessions at CPAC Career day. Five industry leaders, owners, and managers spoke about the industry needs and how you can be successful in the industry. They also discussed their individual experiences in job searching and hiring new immigrants. They conveyed a strong message that the largest industry and employment opportunities in Canada needs many qualified immigrants to grow and evolve with the industry.
中国食品,Chinese Canadian Food Association, Chinese Food, Food safety, Chinese Professionals, Chinese business, Chinese Canadian, Agri-Foods, made in china, Chinese food industry stocks"
5)On June 10, 2007, CCAFIP executives also hosted a panel discussion on Industry Trends and Q&A session between the 2 speaking sessions. Together, we need to know your ideas on how the Association can help you to get better jobs. Some solicited ideas including establishing a job bank for both the candidates and enlist companies which have openings, job specific trainings, mentoring, co-op ......
中国食品,Chinese Canadian Food Association, Chinese Food, Food safety, Chinese Professionals, Chinese business, Chinese Canadian, Agri-Foods, made in china"
6)In 2007, CCAFIP will continue to work with our business partners and members to deliver results on both professional and business growth areas. Current active projects are:
a) work with CPAC/CICS Mentorship program and establish a Co-op program for joint members of CPAC/CICS and CCAFIP. One straw case job position is established, CCAFIP and CPAC/CICS are jointly searching for the right candidates. The candidate will be our first in kind and hopefully we will learn from the experience and land more professional jobs.
The initial findings have pinpointed top 3 areas of opportunities for candidates with Mandanrin as native language to work in Manufacturing environment. We need to ensure verbal and written communictaion skills are developed (100%). We need to pay more attention to social and business skills vs technical skills (100%). We need to have good interview skills (100%).
b)CCAFIP has worked very closely with Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers (one of the largest grocer non profit organization) and secured a grant from Agiculture and Agri-Foods Canada. In the program, CCAFIP will act on behalf of the Chinese food industry and grocers in Canada to review the Food Safety program and make recommendations. CCAFIP will support the study by leading the translation of the program, promoting the program in the Chinese community, setting up joint training program for our memebers and community at large. The project is led by Yingying Chen, supported by Jian Liu, Lihu Yao, and Di Wang. More to come.
c) conduct seminars on Engineering and Food Science. Currently we are planning a seminar on
i) Hydro-electricity genration from Bio Gas Generation from Food Ingredients/By-product/Waste. The session is to be conducted by a Ontario Green Project leader who just received multi-millian dollar funding from the province.
ii) Packaging Engineering positions and what the owners are looking for. The session is to be conducted by several industrial owners.
iii) Food Safety and HACCP. The session is to be conducted by CCAFIP executives.
6) CCAFIP Engineering group and CICS (华咨处)
, one of the largest non-profit Canadian Immigration, Employment, and Settlement Services provider, are working together to expand the HRDC approved flagship program "Employment,Language and Mentorship Program". CCAFIP will support CICS ELM's Job Shadowing/co-op program. CCAFIP is in the process of placing several candidates with engineering and food science background to the food and related industry.
7) Jian Liu was invited to Woodgreen Community Agency (Chinese Immigrantion Task Force in Toronto, a joint 39 non profit organizations) and gave a speech on Interpersonal Communication skills on Saturday Nov 25 from 2-4 pm. He spoke on general and food industry specific communication and interpersonal skills. He also elaborated Target Selection theory and in practice, which is the latest HR recruiting tool. All attendants enjoyed his speech and quite a few of the attendants are following up with him on special skill trainings to improve both job searching and work place skills.
4)CCAFIP Engineering group and CICS (华咨处)
, one of the largest non-profit Canadian Immigration, Employment, and Settlement Services provider, hosted a Novenmber 18 (2-4 pm) joint seminar on "Engineering in Manufacturing and Packaging". Jian Liu, Alfred Yu, and Eric Zheng led the seminar. Over 40 people packed the meeting room at the LINK center located at Shepperd and Kennedy Road. Both CCAFIP and CICS are planning to work together to drive the agenda for International Trained Engineers program. The overall CCAFIP/CICS program will be led by Alfred Yu. The program will consist 3 sections - Mentorship, networking and training for engineering skills including establishing a co-op program for internationally trained engineers.
5)On behalf of CCAFIP, Jian Liu attended Chinese Community support for "Fairness Access to Profession" discussion forum in Toronto. Total 34 professions including engineers, doctors, accountants, and lawyers, etc are currently self governed. It has been very difficult for oversea trained professionals to get license. This bill 124 of Ontario will allow the Ontario government to regulate these professions to ensure a fairness to the licensing process. As a professional engineer, Jian also had discussions with various attendees including CPAC, CICS (华咨处), Shanghai Business Association, Beijing University Alumini, Tsinghua University alumini etc and discussed various means to help new immigrants to land ideal professional jobs in Canada. Several Associations expressed strong interests to jointly host Packaging and Engineering seminar put forth by Jian. Jian also discussed the possibility of having internship (co-op) program in industry for new comers. Ontario Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship Michael Coller and his office are interested in working together to get these opportunities availble for new comers.
6)Mr. Tao Jun, President and CEO of Shanghai based ACIC (largest Chinese privately owned Food Inspection company for import/export) visited CCAFIP and discussed various opportunities with CCAFIP executives. Both Mr. Tao and CCAFIP executives agreed to jointly work on several projects to promote Chinese Food quality in both Canada and China.
7)For Food industry and farm owners and managers, if you want to know how to apply for a grant from Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs for implementing HACCP in your facility, please contact us at ccafip@yahoo.ca
. The grant is up to $29,000. We can help you to improve your company image, implement HACCP and traceability programs, and increase your profit. The deadline is January 1, 2007.
8) On Agriculture and Agri Foods Canada's request, CCAFIP is inviting food industry owners and managers to participate a taskforce for implementing HACCP in Chinese Food sector. If interested, please contact us at ccafip@yahoo.ca
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9) On CPAC's invitation, CCAFIP organized a group of food and packaging company showcased jobs in the industry at CPAC career Day June 11, 2006. Alfred Yu, Richard Jia, and Jian Liu posted these positions and received great feedback from the attendees. Over 1000 people attended this Career day.
10) Congratulations to Mr. Yonli Lin, mentee of our Mentorship program. He just got an offer from Kraft Canada as an Electro-mechanic. Yonli came to us last year when he received both industrial mechanic and electrician license. He had a background in mechanical engineering in China. He quickly established himself by working as an operator and received both licenses very quickly. We were able to help him in getting his ideal job in Canada very quickly.
Do you want to be another Mr. Lin land your ideal job quickly in Food and related industry, please visit us ccafipmentorship@yahoo.ca
The 2nd round of Mentorship program has started to accept registration. For information, please e-mail us.
11)Seven new students and 3 past students graduated from CCAFIP 2nd HACCP training course at Ontario College of Technology, 3660 Midland Ave., 2nd Floor, Suite 202 at Midland and McNicoll (South West corner). For next registration or inquiry, please call 416-332-8727. The official training course aiming to improve our member's integration to Canadian Food Industry (nominal fee) will start in June, 2006.
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CCAFIP 2006 Winter Workshop - "Food and Packaging Prospects and Opportunities" was successfully held on Feb 18, 2006. Over 50 CCAFIP, CPAC members and guests attended despite the cold and icy weather preventing quite a few out-of-town participants attending. The workshop was chaired by Jian Liu. The three (3) keynotes Speakers gave excellent presentations
Dr. Steven Cui of AAFC gave an outstanding three parts presentation a) Agriculture research programs in Canada b)Research programs at AAFC Guelph and Trends in Agri Foods Research. c)Hiring process and website for AAFC research scinetists, post doctoral fellows, graduate students, and technicians. It was well received by the attendees especially those interested in agri-business, research, and graduating students.
Mr. Paul Zepf gave a very profound talk on Packaging Industry Prospects and Opportunities in the new global era. Paul also introduced new tools being used at packaging industry such as MES, ERP, OEE, Waste reduction, and statistics application. This really opened eyes for people with mechanical and electrical engineering background and interested in packaging field.
Mr. Ron Ng gave a dynamic presentation on Engineering and Maintenance in Food Industry. He used his own example encouraged the attendees to embrace the challenges and proactive in job searching. He also explained the key components what food industry is looking for from an engineer and maintenance technicians.
DR. Lihu Yao gave a short talk on HACCP opportunities and upcoming CCAFIP/QGI training course to be held on March 18, 2006.
Yingying Chen discussed Nutritional Labeling and how can company apply.
Alfred Yu and Eric Zheng explained CCAFIP Mentorship program and solicited more mentors and mentees to our Mentorship program.
Richard Jia and Jian Liu are leading the initiative to form a Packaging Interest group.
In conjuction with food industry, CCAFIP also has up to 15 mechanical and electrical or electro-mechanic positions open for people with mill wrights or electricians licences. The pay is approx. $26-30/hr with excellent benefits at Fortune 500 companies. If interested, please e-mail us your resume at ccafip@yahoo.ca.
The cost was free to all particiapnts. CCAFIP welcome donations, sponsorship, and volunteer help.
13) CCAFIP Mentorship Program had her first joint mentor training session with CPAC on October 1. Six mentors attended (Alfred Yu, Eric Zheng, George Wang, Ying Chen, Di Wang and Jian Liu). We have accepted 2 mentees. Mentees are CCAFIP members who applied for the program and pass the preliminery screen with administrators. Mentors will help them to land ideal jobs quickly in Canada. For more details or interested in joining next session, please email CCAFIPmentorship@yahoo.ca We are looking for more mentors and mentees.
14) On Nov 29, CCAFIP and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food had a round table discussion on Agriculture and food business in the ethnic communities in the province of Ontario. Steven Lu and 3 other members attended the discussion. Both sides were very impressed on the progress of Food and Agri-business in the chinese community and future opportunities in co-operation. This is the 2nd round table discussion for OMAF (the first one was with native Canadians in early 2005).
15) On August 27, CCAFIP Summer Workshop was a big success! Over 100 CCAFIP members and guests attended. The workshop was organized by CCAFIP Scientific Committee consisting of Dr. John Shi of Agriculture Canada and Dr. France Cho of University of Toronto.
2 Keynote speakers Dr Joseph Yun and Mr. Raymond Tsang gave excellent speeches on their respective fields - NA Dairy industry prospect and Health Canada Healthy product regulations.
Our guests Mr. Zhonghua Xu and Ms Jina Liu from Sino Canada Chinese Entrepreners Association gave speech on the anniversary of CCAFIP. Mr. Michael Wolferson of City of Toronto Economic Council - Food and Beverage Sector introduced the Food and Beverage support, Mr. Tan, principal of QGI college also gave a speech on CCAFIP and future collaborations.
CCAFIP executives Dr. Lihu Yao provided summary tips from January 22 workshop. Mr. Alfred Yu and Eric Zheng provided details of CCAFIP Mentorship program. Dr. Lihu Yao and Steven Lu introduced CCAFIP/QGI HACCP and Food Safety training. Mr. Jian Liu gave the tips on job interview and career development.
All attendees also enjoyed the mini Job Fair and social activity organized by Dr. John Shi.
This event was reported and the photo of the speakers and organizers were published by the Chinese World Journal on Sept 12, 2005.
16)On June 28, CCAFIP executives Jian Liu, Di Wang, Shawn Zhang and Alumini Lu ZhiJing had a meeting with visiting Southern Yangtze University (Wuxi Light Industry University, China) delegation, Mr. Lou Guadong (Vice Chancellor and General Secretary), Mr. Cai (Dean of School of Business Management), Mr. Gu Zhenbiao (Head of Science and Technolgy Transfer Bureau), and Translator Mr. Wang. The University delegation introduced the major initiatives/changes at the University: relocation to the new Tai Lake campus, enrolment of over 20,000 students, flagship programs in Food Science and Technolgy and other subjects. The CCAFIP executives introduced the CCAFIP programs and Toronto as the largest alumini cluster outside of China (over 40 and growing). Both groups expressed strong interests in future collaboaration and exchange information in various areas.
17) On behalf of CCAFIP, Jian Liu is requested by CPAC to give a presentation during the CPAC Career Day on June 12, 2005 at University of Toronto Scarborough campus. His topic is "How to Access Food Industry Careers". He will speak from the perspective of a Food Industry veteran, a professional engineer, and a hiring manager. He will also introduce CCAFIP and her programs along with other Food Industry resources available to attendees. Alfred Yu, Eric Zheng, Jian Pan, Sean Zhang joined Jian Liu on CPAC day. The team answered quite a few questions from attendees. Our audience were very intrested in the following area: a) how to get ideal job in QA. b) how to find jobs in maintenance and get better pay than labor work. c) how to start business in food industry. Our answer is Networking. Be a part of team. Together we can realize our dreams.
18) CCAFIP is working with industry sponsors on Chinese Market research for North America Food companies and Canadian Market research for Chinese food Companies. If interested, please send us a note at ccafip@yahoo.ca.
- " Career Access to Canadian Food Industry " held on January 22 was very successful. Over 50 members attended despite exceptional winter storm.
Career Access to Canadian Food Industry. More >>
- Dr Lihu Yao visited China to discuss collaboration on HACCP training with China food industry.
- Di Wang, Jian Liu and John Shi were invited to attend The "The Moon Festival Party held by Sino-Cann Entrepreneurs Association" on Sept 26, 2004. CCAFIP had a Table to display our Association in the Party.
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