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Cast Brass Closet Spuds 1-1/4 x 1-1/4 $5.95 Cast Brass Closet Spuds Complete with locknut, friction ring, and rubber washer are used for urinal installation….

Cast Brass Urinal Spuds 1-1/2 x 3/4 $9.59 Cast Brass Urinal Spuds Complete with locknut, friction ring, and rubber washer are used for urinal installation….

Cast Brass Closet Spuds 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 4/ Pack $21.88 Cast Brass Closet Spuds Complete with locknut, friction ring, and rubber washer are used for urinal installation….

New Nike CCI Sand Wedge LH w/ Steel Shaft $34.79 Brand new Nike CCI mens sand wedge. Left-handed. Has a Dynamic Gold steel shaft and a standard Nike rubber grip. You’re sure to love this club for many rounds to come. Authenticity and satisfaction guaranteed….

Nike CCI Cast 4 iron Steel Stiff 4i Golf Club Club Specifications: DEXTERITY: Right-Handed GENDER: Men BRAND: Nike MODEL: CCI Cast CLUB: 4 iron SHAFT: Steel SHAFT SPECIFICS: Nike/True Temper Dynalite Gold, S300 FLEX: Stiff GRIP: Nike LENGTH: 38.25″ CONDITION: Used CONDITION SPECIFICS: Used condition 7.5, fair to good shape, face shows heavy ball marks, sole shows wear from regular play, no major dings or n…

New Nike CCI Gap Wedge (A-Wedge) LH w/ Steel Shaft $34.79 Brand new Nike CCI mens gap wedge (A-wedge). Left-handed. Has a Dynamic Gold steel shaft and a standard Nike rubber grip. You’re sure to love this club for many rounds to come. Authenticity and satisfaction guaranteed….

Cci Cast

Canada, the land of beauty, designated as the best place in the world to live by the United Nations four years in a row, tops in fresh water reserves in the world, number seven in economic wealth despite a population of only 30 millions – what a place! Yes indeed what a place – one aspect, however, if you look deeper, should have all Canadians hanging their heads in shame.

Spreading the Word

The message goes out for all the world to hear: “Emigrate to Canada where opportunities abound especially for engineers, scientists and doctors! Enjoy one of the greatest standards of living in the world.” But when these professionals, who were highly respected in their native lands, who earned well above average incomes there, arrive in Canada what do they find as a reception? “You lack Canadian experience.” “Your English is not sufficient for this job.” “Where is your professional engineering certification for Canada?” They are asked to repeat medical school or engineering school, when they have neither the time, the funds nor the inclination for a repetition of what they went through 20 years ago at home.

An Ugly Result

As career counselors, we meet, almost daily, professionals from abroad who are exasperated with Canada, with their professions and with their lives. They had arrived in Canada full of optimism and hope. They had been led to believe that they would thrive like never before. Instead I have met a psychiatrist who is cleaning offices, an MD general practitioner who is scrubbing floors, a PhD. who is washing dishes to make ends meet and a PhD who has work as a security guard. After one or two years looking for a job, with funds totally depleted, debts escalating, bill collectors in hot pursuit the individual’s self-esteem, despite the person’s obvious accomplishments, is at rock bottom. “I’m 50 years old, have two degrees and can’t even provide for my family.” Meanwhile, oblivious to the reality, the newspapers wax on about the exodus of intellectuals from Canada, the need for more doctors, and rave on about Canada as the land of hope and glory.

Some Progress

Professional companies in Ottawa have successfully placed not only native Canadians but professionals from Russia, the Ukraine, India, the US, Hong Kong, etc. Let’s cite one example.

A Success Story

An engineer from India visited an office with his sad story and expressed his justifiable anger and frustration at being lured to Canada. They could not apologize for the Government but he was assured of the company’s best effort to find him a good job here. He lamented about his rejection because he did not have any Canadian degrees, his lack of Canadian experience and his absence of bilingualism. The fact that he had a Bachelors of Engineering, a Masters of Engineering and an MBA was of little or no value because the papers were foreign.

The fact that he spoke three languages – but not the right ones – was of no advantage. The fact that he had successfully run a manufacturing plant in India was deemed of no importance here. While it was agreed that he had met these objections, the company did not agree at their validity. He was asked if a kilogram weighed more in India than Canada, if a lathe operated on a different principle in Canada than India or if lazy and hardworking people were a monopoly of one country over another.

Did not a person work hard to get an engineering degree in India just as a young person pushes to the limit to get a degree here? Was not English the language used by over 90% of private sector employees in the Ottawa area? Having decided to trust our approach to the job search we reached a point where we were attempting to define the kind of opportunity on which to focus.

Because of his experience, the career coach suggested he seek a position for him to head a manufacturing facility. “No, no” he protested, “Let’s begin more modestly. I will apply for a position as second or third in a plant, prove myself and gradually work my way up.” He was then asked: “Can you or can you not run a manufacturing facility?” “Of course I can, but I am not a Canadian.” Since he was capable or running plant and since such a job would give him the greatest personal satisfaction, self-esteem, not to mention money, it was recommended that plant leadership should be his focus.

Reluctantly he agreed to follow their lead. Five weeks later this gentleman was running a manufacturing facility near Ottawa. Within three months, that plant had been able to double its production because of the methods he introduced.

Conclusions

People hire employees because of what lies between a person’s ears–the experience and knowledge regardless of the race, nationality or ‘officialness’ of the degree. Can you deliver the goods we expect of you? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you should have the job. If you search the right places for a job, this indeed happens.

Expert job counselors can help overcome the prejudices that are bandied about so freely by many in Canada and help locate a career position of significance for most people.

Canadians should not tolerate the senseless discrimination by guilds and trades who hide behind “protecting the public interest” when it is there very own interests they are protecting by keeping a closed shop. I include my own profession, engineering, in this group.

We all need to wake up to the power of individuals regardless of their origins, to cast off our ill-gained sense of elitism, our arrogance about our ‘specialness’. We Canadians are no better than any other peoples or races. People are people, everywhere in the world. Let each one stand on personal merit, not on country of origin. Let Canada benefit from these wonderful individuals who have chosen to join our country to make it a better place to live – and can, if only they are allowed to do so.

All The Best

Bill Caswell is a co-founder of Career Coaching International and continues to coach those candidates seeking career coaching services.

He was previously a co-founder and CEO of an e-learning company. Bill established his information technology company in Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, Seattle and Guadalajara, Mexico. He sold it in 1996.

Bill provides career advice free of charge at his website http://www.ccinternational.ca

If i have a fifteen handicap should i buy the nike cci cast irons or the forged?

It all depends on where you need the help. You should test out the clubs and pick the ones that will help you the most. You might need help because you miss hit a lot…it that is the case then you should go with the cast. Anyway the best way to pick clubs, at least for me, is just trying them out and see what feels better. Theres no reason to buy clubs just because they are said to be better…you should get clubs that are the best for you!

Test firing the cast 12 gauge slugs.