Sam Samanta – Mentor to 10 or more skilled immigrants

Sam Samanta, Senior Financial Analyst, City of Toronto Having mentored eleven times since 2004, Sam Samanta, a senior financial analyst at Corporate Finance Division, City of Toronto, always finds it rewarding. Sam is a Professional Engineer and holds a Master’s...

Saleha Hussain – Mentor to 10 or more skilled immigrants

Saleha Hussain, Building Engineer, City of Toronto Saleha’s parents immigrated to Canada when she was a teenager. She witnessed their struggle settling in Canada and trying to find jobs in their professional fields. Unfortunately, it never happened for them and they...

Riaz Shaikh – Mentor to 10 or more skilled immigrants

Riaz Shaikh, Supervisor Capital Projects, City of Toronto After immigrating from his native India in 2002, Riaz was unable to find a mentor in his professional field of architecture. “When I came to Canada, The Mentoring Partnership Program didn’t exist,”...

Mississauga News: Resident opens doors for newcomers

If there had been a mentoring program to help newcomers find work in their fields when she came to Canada 21 years ago, Eva Omes says she would have signed up in a heartbeat. The Polish-born architect, who now lives in Meadowvale, says it would have saved her two...

Mentoring Moments – Peggy Byrne, mentor, City of Toronto

[vimeo 14426753] Peggy Bryne, a mentor with City of Toronto, explains that mentoring is an opportunity for many employees – not just managers – to share professional insight and knowledge about the Canadian workplace with skilled immigrants from around the world. Go...