Maytree blog: Mentoring – Help a Newcomer, Help Yourself

In the United States, January is National Mentoring Month. While this hasn’t officially caught on in Canada, we think it is a great opportunity to talk about mentoring skilled immigrants.The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) opened this year with a...

Toronto Star: Volunteer work can open career doors

January 18, 2011Toronto StarTracy HanesWhen Tolulope Olutunfese, her husband and young daughter arrived in Burlington from Nigeria in October 2007, she was optimistic about a better life. But even though she held a bachelor’s degree in food science and had work...