NEWCOMERS HELPING NEWCOMERS TO SUCCEED
(Posted in Canadian Newcomer Magazine, May/June 2008) By Sergio Granillo The adventure of coming to Canada from another country and break in a professional field is not an easy quest. It takes a good deal of patience, hard work, creativity and lots of networking. A small group of immigrants internationally trained in Communications, Advertising and Marketing, gathered to create an association called CAMP, in order to network and get advice from personalities in the industry. Under the principle of immigrants helping immigrants, CAMP was established on May 2005, striving to empower its members with the needed skills to break in the local job market. There is a meeting once per month; on every occasion, leaders in the marketing and communications fields share their points of view about the Canadian marketplace, business culture, consumption trends and, particularly, how newcomers can over come any challenge to break in the business. The guest speakers in the last meeting were Lawrence J....