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Gloomier future seen for Canadian immigration, Toronto Star

Extract:

With 35 per cent of male newcomers returning home and a growing middle class in developing countries less inclined to migrate, an internal government review is calling the future of Canadian immigration into question.
“There has been a rather negative view of these expatriate Canadians, as they have been regarded as evidence of ‘brain drain,’ Canada’s lack of competitiveness in retaining high-skilled professionals and business leaders, and our insufficient success in integrating new arrivals,” the report noted. “Canada could choose to take a more proactive stance with expatriates.” continue reading

On the same shelf:

•  Why new Canadians struggle to find jobs MILES CORAK Special to The Globe and Mail
• Top 8 Reasons NOT to Immigrate to Canada, Taken from NotCanada.com
• Why the world’s best and brightest struggle to find jobs in Canada Why do skilled immigrants often fare worse here than in the U.S. and U.K.? Tamsin McMahon, macleans.ca
• 6 Reasons Why Canada Is Not the Place for You Majid Kazmi Huffington Post

CV of Failures : Exploring Unsuccessful Attempts, Resiliency and Grit

"Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale. "
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer  (1857-1324) 

See more quotes in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Edited by
Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994), pages 93-94.

CV of Failures:

"We all have failures in our careers. But usually we keep quiet about it." This Princeton professor posted his CV of failures for the world to see. It includes sections titled "Academic positions and fellowships I did not get" "Degree programs I did not get into,"  "Research funding I did not get" and "Paper rejections from academic journals."  [source: cnbc.com] Continue reading: JOHANNES HAUSHOFER's CV OF FAILURES, 2016.

More on this shelf:

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• A CV of failures Melanie Stefan [Stefan, Melanie (2010) A CV of failures. Nature, 468 (7322). p. 467] Melanie Stefan keeps a Postdoc Journal and is a postdoc in neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
• This guy sent out a résumé listing all of his failures to great success Sarah Robinson
• Reflections on Rejections, Harvard University
• Showcasing Your Failures Land You a Job? Bobby Umar
• SAM’S CV OF FAILURES [everyday scientist]
• Why you should mention your failures, not your successes, on your CV
• This guy listed his failures and flaws on his CV — and it totally worked
• Bolster your CV with failure,  Shilpa Phadnis, Anand J & Shalina Pillai
• Joe Shooman writes words of the rejection letters

Bottomline: Resumes come in all shapes and sizes, and with all sorts of different content expectations depending on what positions your candidate has held, what industries they’ve worked in, and what countries they’ve gained their experience in. ... For example, did you know including ... even failures along with successes on your resume? [source: Assessing Resumes of New Canadians]

Best Practices in Today's Resume: Two Sides of the Coin

One  side:

Who cares about resumes anyway? Think about it. Scott Thompson has a degree in accounting, not computer science. But, does it really matter what he studied as an undergraduate? He’s 54 years old, has been CEO of Paypal, and before that held high positions at Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa, and Barclay Global Investors. Clearly, he is qualified to run Yahoo.

Therefore, why do we have to “look good on paper” in order to be hired? As long as we know we can do the job in front of us, who cares about the past? A resume only highlights the past, but for all of those future thinkers out there, a resume is not required… [more at Resume: A Work of Fiction]

Other side:

1. If your relevant experience, education, or skills are hard to find at a glance, your resume might as well be blank.
2. If it’s not immediately clear from your experience why you’re applying, no one will connect the dots for you.
3. If your resume is difficult to skim, it probably won’t be read at all.
4. If you expect to get your resume in front of a hiring manager, you need to first make sure you get through HR.
5. If your contact info isn’t correct, nothing else matters.  [more at Time.com]