Developing Alternative Career Decision-Support Tool for Internationally Educated Health Professionals

Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHPs), are those who completed their health professional degree (e.g., nursing, MD, etc.) from outside Canada. Many of the IEHPs, however, cannot integrate into their ideal career i.e., nurse, physician, etc. and remain underemployed in non-skilled jobs. The low rate of success in obtaining their respective career in Canada leaves no choice but to explore alternative career options. A lack of information and strategic support, lack of job counseling and coaching opportunities for IEHPs further obstruct their pursuit of alternative careers. To address the issues to the integration of IEHPs through alternative careers we propose this project to develop a decision-support tool for IEHPs to facilitate their pursuit of alternative career. The tool will suggest a short-list of jobs filtering from estimated 150-200 potential alternative jobs to an IEHP based on their personal preference and constraints, transferable skills, and the job requirements by the employers.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tanvir Turin Chowdhury

Student:

Md Saif Uddin Sikdar

Partner:

Scotiabank

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary