ELEANOR GUERRERO-CAMPBELL
Employer-Centred Job Search for Immigrants: Making the Career Transition

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Time: 1:15 - 2 pm
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Employers Want Help – that's why they've advertised for an employee. Immigrant or not, the job seeker who can impress the employer that he or she will be able to help the employer the best, will get the job. Your whole focus when submitting a resume and attending a job interview should be this: How Can I Help This Employer With Their Situation?

It's amazing how your performance will be dramatically changed when you think of helping your employer, focusing on yourself only to the extent that your experience can help the employer.

This talk will demonstrate how the employer-focused job search, resume writing and interview strategies work, how they apply to immigrants in particular, and the dramatic results possible.

With a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Philippines, Eleanor Guererro-Campbell understands the immigrant experience first-hand. Her career transition was a continuation of the same career and educational path she had begun in the Philippines – working for the cities of Richmond, Surrey, and Edmonton as a policy manager and city planner.

But it was her desire to give back to her community and to other immigrants facing the challenges of a new country that led her to her present vocation. As the Director of the Looking Ahead Initiative, she was instrumental in developing an on-line gateway to employment for immigrants in BC (www.lookingahead.bc.ca). Under Eleanor's leadership, the Multicultural Helping House Society grew from a small drop in centre for Filipino immigrants, to a full social service delivery organization offering settlement, employment, and community development programs for newcomers of all cultural backgrounds. The Society now serves 6000 customer clients a year out of a head office in Vancouver and a satellite office in Richmond. She was a member of the Mayor's Working Group on Immigration (Vancouver) and is a member of the Passages to Canada Speakers Bureau. She has also served as the Chair of the City of Vancouver's Special Advisory Committee on Cultural Communities and was the Organizer/Spokesperson for the Coalition of Communities Against Racism. Most recently, she was one of three Immigrant women chosen for the “Women to Watch” cover story in the Canadian Immigrant Magazine and received the Most Outstanding Filipino Canadian Award in 2002.

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