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Immigrants encounter a variety of hindrances to working in their professional fields and at their level of expertise after arriving in Canada. These barriers fall into three principal areas: complex processes for recognizing qualifications, weak professional and technical facility in English or French and employer requirements of potential new hires to have Canadian work experience.

This study explores how some employers, sector councils and immigrant settlement agencies assess and give value to or valorize the prior foreign work experience of immigrants.

 

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 Work and Learning Knowledge Centre, report, valorizing Iimmigrants’ non-Canadian work experience, solution, Canadian employers, over-qualified, assign value, overseas. Le Centre du savoir sur l'apprentissage et le milieu de travail, rapport, Valoriser l’expérience acquise à l’étranger par les immigrants, surqualifiés, accordant une valeur. Valorizing Immigrants’ Non-Canadian Work Experience. A reluctance to acknowledge foreign work experience by Canadian employers means six out of 10 immigrants are forced to take jobs for which they are over-qualified.  Valoriser l’expérience acquise à l’étranger par les immigrants. Les réticences des employeurs canadiens à reconnaître l’expérience acquise à l’étranger font en sorte que six immigrants sur dix n’ont d’autre choix que d’accepter un emploi pour lequel ils sont surqualifiés. La solution à ce problème serait de valoriser l’expérience de travail acquise à l’étranger, en y accordant une valeur.