Sure. Thank you.
One of our recent projects is assessing the integration of two to seven years post-licensure for five professions. This includes Chuck's profession, medical radiation technologist, and medical laboratory technologist, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and pharmacists. We looked all across Canada to address the challenge of barriers in entering the workforce.
We found that someone who has been internationally educated lacks the network that Canadians have, but they do enter the labour market and appear to have more job satisfaction than domestic graduates. So they are finding work in the five professions and they seem to be more satisfied with the workplace experience than someone who is Canadian trained. This was a surprise to us, but that's why we do research, to try to prove things that you hypothesize about and are not sure of.
In regard to complaints from employers, our experience is this large on the continuum of employer attitudes towards immigrants. There are people who would hire someone who is internationally trained over someone who is Canadian trained any day because they bring a different basket of tools. Then there are others who have had a single bad experience and never want to hire one again. So they fit everywhere in between that continuum.