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Launch Your Career in Canada week – March 7th to March 11th

Launch Your Career in Canada is UBC’s annual networking experience open only to UBC international students, dedicated to supporting their career development. Each year, Launch Your Career in Canada provides an opportunity for UBC’s international students to connect with alumni, who were once international students, and learn from their experience establishing their career.

International students will have the opportunity to hear from alumni, connect and network with Industry Professionals in a panel and networking setting, discover how to navigate work and research opportunities at UBC, develop job search skills, and learn how alumni made a successful transition from UBC to the Canadian workplace.
Launch Your Career in Canada is held virtually this year and will include a series of events from **Mon, Mar 7 to Fri, Mar 11**:

**Mon, Mar 7**, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Pathways to Post Graduate Work Permit and Staying in Canada after Graduation with UBC International Student Development
**Tue, Mar 8**, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |Understanding the Labour Market and Exploring Career Possibilities
**Wed, Mar 9**, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | *Featured panel and networking event* – My Career Story: How I Found Meaningful Work in Canada
**Thu, Mar 10**, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Rock your profile with LinkedIn Learning (Hosted by LinkedIn)
**Fri, Mar 11**, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | How to Find Work & Research Opportunities at UBC

With All The Symptoms Going Around – You Might Need An Appointment!

Well, I got your attention didn’t I?

The symptoms that I see are related to things that could lead up to being ill-prepared for upcoming career-related life choices. Career health is also something that each student needs to be proactive about rather than waiting until they feel like their career is filled with troubling systems, or worse yet, on life support! You, like so many, probably need a career coaching appointment.

Often students wait until they are nearing their final term to begin to look for work, or even as late as when they complete the program. This is simply far too late to generate any career success or momentum. Often students who choose this approach find themselves unemployed when they complete the DAP program. As a result, anxiety is high, desperation become obvious and it makes it even harder to gain traction for a successful job search.

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Notice: “New in Public Practice Accounting”

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Significant Changes Are Taking Place in 2022 – Make sure YOU are ready!

For many years Public Practice Recruiting has had a structure that has been the foundation of campus recruiting periods for students in post-secondary degree and diploma programs throughout North America. Over the last few years this had changed significantly. With skill shortages on the rise, the human capital needs of firms rising and a pandemic complicating everything, it has made the process of attracting and securing the right talent much more challenging for these firms. Even the CPA associations across Canada have ramped up their recruiting activities to support this process over the past few years.

These realities have caused the firms to take a close look at their needs verses the process in place and have determined it is time to take more control of their hiring practices. No surprise really, as the rest of the labour market works this way for the very same reasons. With this new approaching rolling out in 2022, students will need to pay close attention to five major things:

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