Finance Sector: Finance Professionals

Menial Jobs Dept: The goal of the year-long International Finance and Administration Professional Program is to give internationally educated finance professionals the required business knowledge to compete for jobs at Canada's banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, according to CBC. "We've had them practicing by attending job fairs and putting together their resumes and then speaking of themselves rather than what their job title was in their home country, talking about what it is they did, what competencies," she said. "So they don't say 'I was a vice-president of human resources,' they actually say 'I had eight people reporting to me and I helped set their sales goals and then I helped them achieve their sales goals,' something that a hiring manager in Canada would understand." Ottawa's Alqonquin College has graduated its first students of a course meant to help skilled immigrants land jobs in Canada's finance sector. Professor Angela Lyrette said the 30 graduates of the pilot project often spoke about their titles but not their skills, and ended up unemployed or underemployed, often in menial jobs. As reported in the news.
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