Policy and Research Coordinator,
Steven Isidori
Email: sisidori@mbot.com
Phone: 905-273-6151 ext. 38
Address: Mississauga Board of Trade
701-77 City Centre Drive,
Mississauga, Ontario
L5B 1M5 Canada
Business without Borders, Diversity Knocks - October 25, 2010
Paul Beamish hired Gigi Wong because of her answer to a simple question: how would she react if a Chinese businessman belched after his meal? It was a difference in cultural etiquette he'd observed hosting Asian clients and wanted to know how a prospective employee would handle the situation. A Canadian-born job candidate said she'd politely tell the person to stop, but Wong had the correct response. "I would ignore it," she said. "It's a sign they are enjoying themselves."
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Contact World Education Services
Web: www.wes.org/ca
Phone: 416-972-0070 Toll free: 866-343-0070 Fax: 416-972-9004
Address: World Education Services 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1400 Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3
“You can recruit and hire internationally trained candidates with confidence when they have had their academic degrees verified and assessed by World Education Services. An assessment report from us can let you rank internationally trained applicants on the same scale as those educated in Canada.
Ask applicants to come to WES before applying to you. To help them find out about us, link your organization's careers webpage to www.wes.org/ca .
WES is the leading assessment service in North America, verifying the authenticity of documents, and equating the level of education of over 60,000 people a year."
Tim Owen, WES
Description:
World Education Services (WES) is the leading source of international education intelligence. WES is a not for profit organization with over thirty years’ experience evaluating international credentials.
WES provides more than 50,000 evaluations each year that are accepted by thousands of academic institutions, employers, licensing and certification boards and government agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
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ITS in Mississauga is part of the Global Experience @ Work (GE@W) initiative. Through GE@W, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has supported over 20 community projects led by local chambers of commerce and boards of trade throughout the province to better integrate foreign trained professionals into the labour force by connecting workers and potential employers.