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A Complete Guide to Overcome "No Canadian Experience": How and Where to Obtain "Canadian Experience"

by Obi Orakwue

385 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1099; ISBN 1-4120-6198-9; US$31.50, C$35.70, EUR25.50, £18.00

Do you live and work in Canada? Explore this guide, this no-miss 'Bible of information' for foreign-trained professionals and skilled immigrants on the journey to employment in their chosen professions in Canada.

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About the Book      About the Author      Excerpts      Catalogue Information

About the Book NOW YOU CAN TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL LIFE AND FUTURE AS A FOREIGN TRAINED PROFESSIONAL IN CANADA Listening to the disclaimer - 'Do you have Canadian Experience?' while in an interview with an employer sends your hope and dreams up in smoke. Remembering the ambush of the bully phrase 'No Canadian Experience' gives you a hollow stomach and or goose pimples. Relax! Hope is around the corner. Whether you want to obtain Canadian experience through: Internship and or paid co-op program Short period academic upgrading with internship and co-op placement Start your own professional practice Start your own business in and or outside your field of expertise A Complete Guide to Overcome "No Canadian Experience": How and Where to Obtain "Canadian Experience" Guides you to the open gates and doors, and elaborates numerous sources and options you may need to consider.

In this edition of the book you will find:

• How and where to learn excellent job search skills
• How and where to search for employment opportunities
• Contacts and how to register with professional regulatory bodies and professional associations
• How and where to register for internship, co-op placements and or career bridge programs
• How and where to obtain short period (under 1 year) academic upgrading and post graduate diploma/certificates with internship and co-op placement
• How and where to obtain academic credentials assessment services
• Best schools to obtain an MBA for specific specializations
• How and where to secure official and or alternative student finance and bank loans for academic and or business purposes.
• How to start and run a dozen and one businesses and or professional practice with less than $20,000.
• All you need to overcome the barrier between you and your dream job in Canada

Whether you are a Foreign Trained Professional and or Skilled Immigrant residing in Canada or planning to immigrate to Canada, you will find this book packed with insightful and revealing ideas, tips, advice and strategies. Explore this 'Bible of Information' for the Foreign Trained Professionals and Skilled Immigrants, and be most informed on how to live and work in Canada -' the meeting place'. A country where being human, is to inherit a life long opportunity for being whatever you want to be. Where those who reach out for excellence are promised and rewarded with a gift of support and success.

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About the Author

Obi Orakwue is a foreign-trained professional in Canada, and a Nigerian-trained biochemist. Mr. Orakwue had been through various 'Survival Jobs', interviews, and first hand encounters with the bully barrier "No Canadian Experience". He earned additional insight by closely following the plight of other foreign-trained professionals in Canada, in the journey to employment in their chosen professions. He has written other books including:

• Fiction
  Overqualified Labourer
  Corrupted Ambition
  The Comedy of Time
  The Terrorist Creed
  The Councilor and The Municipal Mafia
  The Lost Gene: Victim of Want
  

Presently, he is putting pruning touches to his latest work entitled The Career Spouse while keeping pace with a Post-Graduate program.

He lives in Toronto.

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