January is mentoring month. If you need a resolution to inspire and motivate you, consider becoming a mentor to a skilled immigrant. There’s no time like the present. Thirty per cent of mentors commit to mentor again, so it’s clear they gain as much as they give. Each of us can pinpoint a mentor – [...]
December 19, 2011
Mississauga News
Jan Dean
If there had been a mentoring program to help newcomers find work in their fields when she came to Canada 21 years ago, Eva Omes says she would have signed up in a heartbeat. The Polish-born architect, who now lives in Meadowvale, says it would have saved her two [...]
November 30, 2011
National Post
Denise Deveau
Diversity programs are nothing new for Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP – they have been part of the national law firm’s DNA for five years and it has consistently won accolades for its efforts.
FMC was also the first law firm to partner with the TRIEC (Toronto Region Immigrant Employment [...]
November 29, 2011
South Asian Focus
When he came to Canada from India 22 years ago after working nearly 10 years in multinational companies in South East Asia and the Middle East, there was no support for Brampton resident Iqbal Ali.
Says Ali: “Having gone through that pain I really wanted to help and [...]
November 18, 2011
Canadian Immigrant
Celna Chacko-Saran
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) recognized outstanding volunteer contributions to its award-winning program, The Mentoring Partnership. Facilitating the mentorship of over 6,000 skilled immigrants since its launch in 2004, the program brings together recent skilled immigrants and established professionals in occupation-specific mentoring relationships. Mentors share job search tips, industry [...]
July 4, 2011
Canadian Immigrant Magazine
Ozzie Saunds
Recently I spoke with Vishnu Pathangi who managed to secure employment within the IT industry as a SAP consultant, soon after emigrating from India. In this interview, 30-year-old Vishnu talks about how he utilized free resources provided to new Canadians to successfully build his professional [...]
March 18, 2011
Financial Post
Mary Teresa Bitti
Gautam Nath is very active in Toronto’s immigrant community. In addition to being director of Cultural Markets Research at Environics Research Group, he is a director on the board at Multilingual Community Interpreter Services (MCIS), has been invited to join the advisory board of York [...]
March 21, 2011
Ernst & Young Newsletter
Munish Mohendroo, Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory Services, Toronto, Ontario
“Volunteering has helped me build a professional network … But there is also a personal side: it makes me feel good!”
I was born in India, but my Dad worked in Africa, so that’s where I spent my childhood. I went to university [...]
February 16, 2011
Yonge Street
Paul Gallant
A mixture of luck, skill and strategy got Veena Balram to where she is in her Canadian professional life. When she and her family were immigrating to Toronto from New Delhi seven years ago, the IT manager contacted a U.S. company she had worked with, to see [...]
January 18, 2011
Toronto Star
Tracy Hanes
When Tolulope Olutunfese, her husband and young daughter arrived in Burlington from Nigeria in October 2007, she was optimistic about a better life. But even though she held a bachelor’s degree in food science and had work experience in that field, her job search proved futile.
“It [...]
