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Понеже темата така или иначе се отклони твърде много, ето една статия от днешният брой на МетроНюз - мисля че всеки може да си прави изводи сам за себе си.
http://www.metronews.ca/worksmart_news.asp?id=9335
Foreign professionals find help
The Canadian job market has been less than kind to Dhaval Shah and he can't understand why.
The 27-year-old arrived from India in January, a
chemical engineer with an MBA, foreign work experience and a dose of optimism. What more could a Canadian employer want? Shah has asked himself this question often as the months roll by.
Aaron Chaze, on the other hand, has had an entirely different experience.
Also bright, well-educated and recently arrived from India, the 35-year-old investment expert was snatched up by a private investment firm. Chaze thinks the key for foreign-trained immigrants is preparation — mentally, economically and culturally — for the rough road that inevitably lies ahead.
He is willing to concede though, even the most highly skilled foreign professional faces employer prejudices and can use some help integrating into the culture of the Canadian work experience.
Which is why he enrolled last December in the Mentoring Partnership, a program that matches immigrants up with a mentor to help them find jobs in their fields. He landed his current job in January.
It's also why Shah enrolled in the same program, hoping the help from an established professional voluntarily assigned to him will give him that added edge to launch a career in Canada.
Business executives, teachers and other made-in-Canada professionals are volunteering for the Mentoring Partnership to help newcomers like Shah and Chaze stick-handle a job search.
The mentoring program, funded primarily by the federal Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, was launched last December by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), along with a number of employment agencies in Toronto, York and Peel, as one way to break down the barriers that foreign-trained professionals face in finding employment.
The task isn't easy. Eighty per cent of job openings aren't even advertised. Where positions are advertised,
half of Canadian employers don't bother to look at resumés from immigrant job candidates who have overseas education or work, according to a study done last year for the Public Policy Forum, an Ottawa think tank.
"Despite the fact that immigrants are better and better skilled, they're having more difficulty getting jobs," says University of Toronto sociology professor Jeffrey Reitz. He attributes this to a more rapidly rising skill level among native-born Canadians, whose university degrees and letters of reference are more familiar to the average employer, offsetting any immigrant's competitive gain.
"I had a doctor in my office last week from Iran. He was crying — because he's a surgeon and he was working at McDonald's," says Jennie Brimicombe, who screens immigrants at ACCES, a Scarborough employment and counselling agency, for the mentoring program. She also interviews mentors before pairing them up.
TRIEC is responsible for finding the individual and corporate mentors, while employment agencies like Jobstart, ACCES and JVS screen immigrants to find a suitable match. To qualify, an immigrant must be in Canada less than three years, professional educated outside the country, currently unemployed or in a "survival" job, and speak fluent English.
A total of 246 immigrant-mentor matches have been made since the orientation sessions began in February. The goal is to make 1,000 matches in the first year, although mentors are in short supply. Forty immigrants, including Chaze, have found jobs in their field, says project manager Sangeeta Subramanian.
. Плюс това с работна виза не ти е толкова сигурен статута, кат те уволнят след 1 година (или фирмата вземе та фалира) и айдееее, аут ъв дъ гейм - почвай сичко отначало...
