Sabreet Ghumman worked as a Case Manager with Nova Scotia Works, YMCA of Cape Breton for almost three years and now works in the career development field in BC. During that time she began working towards her Career Development Practitioner certification with the NSCDA. Originally from Gurdaspur, India, Sabreet has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rabindranath Tagore University. She arrived in Canada in 2018 to study Social Work at Sheridan College in Ontario, graduating in 2019 and she accepted the position in Cape Breton shortly after that.

Sabreet was able to transfer skills learned studying social work to her current position. “Social Services is very broad field and what inspired me to make employment services my niche, was my journey as a newcomer looking for a job in Canada. Newcomers experience multiple barriers that prevent entry into the fields of our training and education. These challenges have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. I was very disappointed and sad when I saw my friends and other international students working in completely different fields from what they had studied,” says Sabreet.