Mastering Cover Letters: Building Your Path to Job Success
This blog was created based on content delivered by Kerry Ross, a career educator at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., on April 17, 2024, for Jumpstart’s online workshop: Mastering Cover Letters: Building Your Path to Job Success. Kerry joined Jumpstart as a volunteer in 2022 and is certified as a Career Development […]
A Family Affair: Giving Back Through Love, Art, and Food
A Family Affair: Giving Back Through Love, Art, and Food A Family Affair: Giving Back Through Love, Art, and Food There are few families you’ll meet like the Alshamaly’s. The five-member family, who fled their home country of Syria, when the war broke out in 2012, arrived in Canada four years later. They first settled […]
For the Love of Chocolate, Home, Empowerment, and Giving Back
For the Love of Chocolate, Home, Empowerment, and Giving Back When Nesreen Abosultan chose the name, Wud, love in Arabic, for her new small business, it was a truly fitting name. There was love for family, love for quality chocolate, and plenty of love for where she came from. Nesreen’s business idea was born from […]
Spotlight: Rashmi from TD Bank Group
Spotlight on Success Diverse perspectives, out-of-the-box thinking, innovative ways of doing things, resilience, determination, commitment…these are just a few of the ways that hiring refugees can bring value to an organization. When the employee/employer match works – when a new hire brings in the skills, talent, and drive that align with the employer’s own needs, […]
Spotlight: Sajad from Afghanistan
Spotlight on Success Diverse perspectives, out-of-the-box thinking, innovative ways of doing things, resilience, determination, commitment…these are just a few of the ways that hiring refugees can bring value to an organization. When the employee/employer match works – when a new hire brings in the skills, talent, and drive that align with the employer’s own needs, […]
Spotlight: Tatiana Astray, Jumpstart Board Member
Team Spotlight: Tatiana As a refugee-led organization, many of our staff have lived firsthand the same or similar experiences with the refugee clients we serve. Our series, Spotlight on the Team, profiles those who work with Jumpstart, how their own lives inform the work they do, and their hopes for supporting the meaningful economic integration […]
Spotlight: Walid from Afghanistan
Spotlight on Success Each of our Jumpstart clients has a unique story — professionally and personally — involving trials and tribulations, celebrations, and successes. Our Spotlight series shines a light on the ways that refugee talent has accessed our services, and how this has ultimately uplifted them in their career journey to benefit workplaces, communities, […]
Creator Series 2024: Njamba Koffi, Democratic Republic of Congo
Highlighting Canada’s Talented Refugee Artists In celebration of the wide variety of refugee artists living across Canada, our Creator Series profiles the individuals, their work, and their inspiration in creating unique artistic products. From authors and painters, designers and singers, these profiles examine how their lived refugee experiences have informed their practice and where (or […]