Database aims to link foreign engineers to jobs in Canada

Metro News Toronto
November 25, 2009

David Cooper

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Owais Rafiq and Geetanjali Dagar of Doers have hired a dozen foreign-trained engineers using a new online search engine.

Despite being the largest cohort of skilled immigrants to Canada, internationally trained engineers have been locked out of the profession for years – only 15 per cent find work in their field.

Today, an organization dedicated to helping this group officially launches an online database and search engine designed to match qualified foreign-trained and Canadian graduate engineers with jobs they are trained for.

The new tool, dubbed Leveraging Global Engineering Skills and funded by the province, has already won the support of Owais Rafiq, vice-president of a Toronto engineering firm.

His DOERS Inc. has hired a dozen internationally trained engineers for contract jobs through a pilot developed by the Toronto-based non-profit organization Council for Access to the Profession of Engineering (CAPE).

Reference: Metro News Toronto