Alberta and British Columbia seeking Filipino skilled workers The Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Philippines’ Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) regarding human resource development to promote the many employment opportunities in Alberta and BC. Hector Goudreau, the Alberta Minister...

Canada - The most welcoming country in the world According to the HSBC Bank International’s Expat Explorer Survey, people who relocate to Canada have “a relatively easy time befriending locals, joining a local community group and learning the language.”  In fact, 95 per cent of those surveyed said that they have made friends with Canadian locals. ...

The Americans don’t want you - well we do! America attracts the best form of human capital- IT specialists, doctors, scientists, engineers etc. America is the envy of the Western World as most skilled professionals want to work there, because after all, it is the land of plenty. Most of these individuals enter on H-1B visas and all of them have...

Some firms are slowly realizing they’ll need minorities to survive When Vikram Ahluwalia immigrated to Canada four years ago, he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t getting any job offers. In India, he had spent the better part of a decade working his way up to middle management at a multinational packaged goods company, so he knew he was more than qualified to fill...