The Brampton Board of Trade award-winning project Skills Without Borders-“connecting employers and skilled immigrants” has been steadily contacted, directly by internationally trained professionals, unemployed or under-employed, as well as by local employers looking for suitable, qualified and experienced professionals to fill open positions in their companies.

Networking with our community partner organizations, providing programs and employment services to skilled immigrants, we have been able to address these requests for help finding employment for foreign trained professionals or the needed skills for employers.

The following is just a sample of these testimonials:

April 1st, 2007

Prabhjot Singh Cheema approached SWB asking for help “to utilize my skills and experience”.
His case was forwarded to COSTI Immigrant Services where he was informed of several services and programs offered by COSTI to address the employment integration of internationally trained professionals into the Canadian labour market in their fields of training and expertise.

January 25th, 2007

WaudWare Incorporated contacted The Brampton Board of Trade asking for assistance regarding “language challenges” they were experiencing with a new employee from Iran.
Skills Without Borders provided WaudWare with information and referrals about ESL, LINC and ELT programs as well as the organizations and centres providing these language trainings.

January 17th, 2007

NK Cosmetics Inc. contacted SWB looking for internationally trained professionals to fill several open positions.
The request was channeled to COSTI Immigrant Services which provided NK Cosmetics Inc. with numerous resumes of suitable and employment ready applicants newcomers to Canada.

January 3rd, 2007

SWB was contacted by Mrs. Raheel expressing frustration because her husband was “highly qualified, but he is doing labour job”.
Her call for help was re-directed to COSTI Immigrant Services, as one of our main partners providing programs and employment services to help newcomers with employment issues.

November 3rd, 2006

Avnan Electro Inc. contacted an Employer Solutions Representative from The Region of Peel-JobsNow looking for an Account Manager.
JobsNow approached SWB and the request was passed on to COSTI Immigrant Services to select an refer to them suitable applicants from their database of internationally trained professionals living in our community and presently looking for work in their fields of training and expertise.