Janey Buzugbe (Janey Buz) is a startup founder, career coach, and program mentor and consultant. She has been running her own YouTube channel for over five years. In this channel she provides relevant resources for newcomer students and professionals to navigate their careers and education in Canada.
Janey is now the founder of Immiducation, a career and education network of immigrants by immigrants. This global network support immigrants by accelerating their success through learning programs & resources, community and job matching. Additionally, Janey is a Program Mentor & Consultant for the DMZ, a tech startup growth incubator based out of Ryerson University in Toronto.
Nino and Janey originally connected through the Toronto tech startup community over their shared passion for the immigration space and helping immigrant professionals succeed in Canada. During the episode, Janey discusses some of the strategic decisions she made (e.g. attending a prestigious university) that brought her to this point in her career - pursuing her entrepreneurial passion.
She also cover the importance of planning your Canadian journey in advance - thinking about your future career and settlement even before landing in the country. Where you could possibly work, what careers could be a good fit, and long term professional growth vision in general. Janey highlighted the risk of getting stuck in a low income, survival job longer term if a person doesn’t plan their career growth in advance.
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