From an interview with Hannah Mendonça, administrative assistant Hannah Mendonça was a lawyer in Aracaju, Brazil. She left her successful career behind with her family and set out with her husband to start from scratch in Canada. She faced obstacles in her field, so she pivoted, and is now [...]
Vivian Odii is an IT professional from Nigeria who set out on a solo journey to conquer her fears and start a new life by embracing the diversity, culture and opportunities that Canada has to offer. With definitive goals, a clear focus on a successful future and new-found friendships to [...]
Uprooting your life in the country where you were born and raised and moving to a new place, a new country is challenging and takes immense courage. Newcomers choose to come to Canada for a myriad of reasons: Some make the journey to escape violent environments, others come to expand [...]
Originally from India, Divya is a banking and finance professional with over a decade of experience working with a multinational global bank in Dubai. In October, 2018, Divya and her family decided to emigrate to Canada for a better quality of life. One would think that finding a job in [...]
Desigan was born and raised in South Africa. He worked in the aerospace industry for most of his professional life and moved to Canada in September, 2018, with the hopes of scaling his career to new heights and finding a better quality of life. This is Desigan’s story. [...]
With a graduate degree in theatre arts and a postgraduate degree in cultural management, Mariana Miquelin stumbled on an opportunity to become an event professional. This unexpected chance ended up defining her entire life! Mariana’s desire to grow professionally brought her to Canada in April 2018, starting a journey filled [...]
Shomik Roy was born and raised in Mumbai, India. His ambition to pursue an MBA from an international business school led him to Canada in May 2018. Unlike most of his peers from business school, Shomik chose the unconventional option of joining the startup ecosystem and currently works as an [...]
My name is Roxana Radulescu and I’m from Romania. I moved to Toronto with my husband and two kids in March, 2017. Back in Romania, I graduated with a degree in philology and continued with a master’s degree in knowledge and project management. During University, I worked for a human [...]
Author: Joyce Pang This is the last blog of our three-part series on RBC Economics’ recently published report “Untapped Potential: Canada needs to close its immigrant wage gap”. In the first blog, we talked about how networking can help newcomers succeed in the labour market. In the previous blog, we [...]
Author: Joyce Pang This is the second blog to our three-part series on RBC Economics’ recently published report 'Untapped Potential: Canada needs to close its immigrant wage gap.' In the previous blog, we talked about what the immigrant wage gap is, and newcomers can do to succeed in Canada. [...]
My name is Paulo Mattos and I moved to Toronto in 2018 as an international student from Brazil. I am a business development professional with over a decade of experience working in the real estate and tourism industries. I graduated with a degree in international business and business administration from [...]
Author: Joyce Pang Recently, RBC Economics’ published a report titled, “Untapped Potential: Canada needs to close its immigrant wage gap” — this is the first blog of our three-part series, examining the findings of the report, and elaborating on the progress that can be made, and opportunities for newcomers [...]