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by Tony Teoh on April 25, 2010


Julius Zombori (SfC Graduate) Julius Zombori has a Ph.D. and a Chartered Accountant designation from his home country, Hungary. With several years of senior managerial experience in taxation and accounting, employment with leading organizations in his home country, served as a senior faculty member of Hungarys premier university and a research fellow at Yale University in the US, he hoped to find employment quickly in Toronto. Arriving in Canada in 2000, Julius began applying for jobs and was disheartened when he received no response. As months passed without receiving any feedback from employers, Julius realized that he needed guidance in his job search and Toronto Star News Articleregistered at Skills for Change where he joined the employment focused Sector-specific Information and Counseling program (STIC) targeted for internationally trained professionals. For 12 weeks, Julius studied accounting as practiced in Canada, received hands on training with accounting software, and obtained guidance on job search techniques and learned how to market his skills. He made contacts, began developing his network and found the agencys support invaluable. After 16 months of unemployment that Julius describes as the most difficult period of my life, he found employment as a manager with a major international accounting and consulting firm in 2001. Julius, like most newcomers, had to deal with the problems associated with the lack of credit history and faced numerous refusals when he

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