Mentoring session for new Canadians to provide speedy employment

Canada, 27th September: Newly arrived immigrants in Canada are being provided an opportunity to get career-related guidance to jump-start their careers here.

The new pilot mentorship program acts as a program for linking established Canadian business professionals with new Canadians.

New immigrant settlement program in Toronto--The speed mentorship program was launched last month in West Toronto by CultureLink, an immigrant settlement organization. The program helps newcomers to Canada get an opportunity to choose and interact with a career mentor in Toronto to get on the right employment track in Canada.

Speed-mentoring sessions for newcomers in Canada--The speed-matching session for newcomers in Canada includes mentions from a range of sectors including engineering and IT, real estate, teaching, nursing, banking, performing arts and finance.

A vital difference of this new speed-mentoring program from other mentoring programs for newcomers in Canada is that it is not just a single meeting session. In fact, it acts as a first and foremost step in making a long-lasting relationship between a foreign trained professional wanting to get a chance in Canadian job market and a mentor, stated Fei Tang, manager of mentorship program from CultureLink.

Tang further informed that the organization aims to extend long-term commitment to participants through this three-month program. The program divides foreign trained job seekers into small groups and provides them around seven minutes for providing information about themselves to their chosen mentor and interchange information about their prospective career aims.

So, the process of such exchange of information gets repeated after the expiry of seven minutes between each party. An immigrant herself, Tang said the onus of getting job lies on the immigrant and not on the program since it’s a two-way process.

She said that she found her first job four years after her arrival in Canada once she improved her English proficiency.

Who is eligible for enrollment in speed-mentoring program—To be eligible for this mentor-mentee speed mentoring program in west Toronto, Canada organized by CultureLink, the individual must either needs to be a landed immigrant or should be a Convention Refugee.

In addition, he must have attained a minimum of 19 years of age and should possess employment-ready level of proficiency in English language.