Roughly 800 new Canadians touched up their resumes and made some connections at a Ukrainian-Calgarian job fair Friday.
St. Stephen Protomartyr Ukrainian Church hosted the event, which brought in refugees looking for work. They were greeted by 30 different local employers searching for new faces for retail, construction and health care positions.
And the newcomers weren't only given opportunities to show their resumes off -- many employers offered help improving them, too. "I'm looking for a job because I'm a psychologist and when I came here, I understood with my licence, I can't work," she told CTV News. "I'm so grateful that I'm here." As her hometown in central Ukraine comes under siege, the job fair -- and the comfort of normalcy it represents -- carries extra importance.
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