Episodes
Entrepreneur, Sales Leader & Coach with experience building high-capacity teams and profitable online businesses. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetobioluwole/ CEO & Co-Founder The3Skills Ottawa, Canada Area https://www.the3skills.com/pivot Our mission is to create the world's most employable candidates by teaching people how to communicate their value. Results: $150k in revenue, 220+ jobs landed by our students adding over $7.3 Million to Canadian Economy (Total Student...
Published 05/01/22
Published 05/01/22
Innovative and performance-driven entrepreneur with a deep passion for web 3 technology, business and food. Certified NFT Expert & Project management professional with experience in managing all aspects of the business development. Poses the ability to work and remain calm under pressure, excellent leaderships skills and great time management skills.  I am also an active mentor, advisor & public speaker for Startup’s and Non-Profit Organizations. With love for food, we are building...
Published 05/01/22
My name is Maria, and as an Industrial Engineer, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), and Data Science Fellow I take advantage of my analytical and people skills to help organizations make process and data-driven decisions. In addition to my corporate job, I volunteer at IIBA Hamilton, AI for Good, and Neutrify, fulfilling my passion for making a positive impact in the community. In my free time, I love to go for a walk, study, travel, and bake desserts. If you want to learn...
Published 05/01/22
This podcast is one of the top 10% most popular shows out of 2,625,106 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/wisen-up-move-to-canada-canada-immigration-fw0MryBv8ta/ Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 with Pat Chaisang Pat landed in Vancouver from Thailand straight out of high school and English wasn't her first language. She was shy and not confident to speak to people because she was worried if she would make mistakes. Growing up in Asia, she was...
Published 09/15/21
This podcast is one of the top 10% most popular shows out of 2,625,106 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/wisen-up-move-to-canada-canada-immigration-fw0MryBv8ta/ Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 with Simran Kaur Simran is an IT professional who lived in Hong Kong before moving from India to Canada. How are they managing to hold down full-time jobs and yet find time to create Youtube Videos, launch and manage their app, products and services in...
Published 08/23/21
Our next guest has travelled the globe and visited over 30 countries before he chose Canada as his home. He has his PMP certification, had a stint at London School of Economics while completing his MBA in Barcelona, published articles, papers and was also invited to be part of TV show panel in Canada back in 2011.  He worked on large  projects both for the US and Indian government managing multiple complex stakeholder relationships.  How did he manage to secure a job in Canada landing 1...
Published 05/07/21
Nav and his wife landed in Canada right before the pandemic. They built their own company while in Hong Kong and in spite of many challenges sold it before moving to Canada They landed in Canada and lost all their employment opportunities thanks to COVID. In spite of all that, they have built a Youtube channel with over 140k subscribers and have launched their own Job Accelerator program to help Canadian Newcomers find their first job faster and easier. I love their passion, spirit and...
Published 04/22/21
Sign up at https://www.wisenup.ca to enjoy all the other fun episodes#Takeaways from this episode: Business Owners:How did Nick move from running the largest call centre and ad agency in Dubai to starting multiple businesses in Canada?What was his first...
Published 04/07/21
👩‍🏫👨‍🏫How many of us watched the #Netflix Special or remember the game where this great man played with high fever and led the team to a play off win by making the game winning shot?#michaeljordan is the greatest player of all time for a reason. Well...
Published 03/31/21
Are you a Business analyst trying to break into the Canadian Market?Would you like to pivot into being a product owner/product manager?What strategies/tools should you employ to set yourself apart from the competition?Tune into our next podcast where we...
Published 03/24/21
How many of you would like to study in Canada? What websites do you use to find out about the best college courses applicable to you? What courses are in demand in Canada?What sectors are hiring in Canada?Our next Podcast Guest goes behind the scenes...
Published 03/20/21
What will you do if you relocated to a new country and the world was shut down?How will you network and find jobs if you are not allowed to leave your house?How do you prepare for a project manager role In Canada even before you land? Nikhil completed...
Published 03/15/21
What would you do if you landed right before the #lockdown in March 2020?Relocating to a new country and establishing your career is challenging as it is but 2020 spiced up the difficulty a little bit, don't you think?👨‍💻Would you be ok with working at...
Published 03/14/21
Today's guest is our very own WisenUp co-host Ron Johnson, who has a wealth of personal and professional experience to share about living, working and thriving in Canada. Ron is an ex-banker who started his career with Morgan Stanley and moved to Canada...
Published 03/08/21
In this episode of Wisen Up podcast, we have turned the tables a bit as our host Ruju is being in turn interviewed and rightly so as Ruju embodies yet another story of a successful immigrant who was once just as unsure and insecure as any newcomer is....
Published 03/07/21
While Jacqueline might throw away all her credit to her luck, one has to give kudos to Jackie and her husband for managing almost everything that is essential to initially living in a foreign country, going with the flow and not stressing about subjects...
Published 01/12/21
My co-host Ron and I are back with another inspiring moving to Canada journey of our guest speaker, Sam J. Thomas. For a lot of immigrants and especially the ones who have already had well-established careers in their countries, moving to a new country...
Published 01/12/21
We all love a good story. We love learning from other's mistakes. We innately know we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Our guest today has mastered this art of learning from others. He contacted his peers and seniors who made the trip to Canada before...
Published 01/12/21
What did Saugata do differently that helped him secure 2 to 3 HR interviews per day as soon as he landed in Canada?How easy or difficult is it for a candidate with 10 to 15 years of experience in the IT sector to find a job in Canada?What software tools...
Published 12/12/20