Welcome to Hot Topics! Gabrielle Crichlow talks to returning guest Mariana Santiago about finding employment to pursue her permanent residency in Canada.

This episode features Venezuelan immigrant Mariana Santiago discussing her experiences with obtaining Canadian residency and citizenship, finding work in Canada, and pursuing her career goals in the marketing industry. She emphasizes the importance of obtaining a Canadian passport for ease of travel and discusses the challenges of maintaining dual citizenship and finding employment as an immigrant. Mariana shares her journey of networking, volunteering, and applying for jobs in the marketing industry, and advises listeners to focus on positions that align with their career goals and to pursue hobbies and passions outside of work. The episode sheds light on the challenges and complexities of immigration and provides valuable insights into networking and career building.

Who is Mariana Santiago?
Mariana is a Venezuelan Latin woman who moved to Canada over 7 years ago. In her previous life as she likes to call it, she used to be a brand and strategic marketer for Pharmaceutical Companies. When she moved to Canada, she started a completely different and new journey in comedy and public speaking. Her passion has always been to share some of her happiness and light up the rooms where she walks in with her smile, vibration and telling all kinds of random but funny stories about her life. Thanks to being an immigrant who has faced many challenges, she has found herself on the right path to find her true calling. Mariana became a Stand Up comedian over 4 years ago, performing in Spanish and in English. Even though she loves her comedy, she is looking to have a major impact through her public speaking. She has her own podcast where she shares from her unique stories how we can be better humans and communicate in a better way. Mariana’s mission is to make a positive impact in the world through the honesty of her words, wherever she is, either talking with a stranger, a friend or family, on stage, or on camera! In this new life of hers, she is walking the path she wants to walk, happy, fulfilled and finding herself, healing and growing in order to achieve her goal, to make a bigger positive impact in the world.

You can find Mariana Santiago:
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria...
On Instagram # 1: https://www.instagram.com/mari...
On Instagram # 2: https://www.instagram.com/ella...
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Mariana has a Spanish and English podcast called "Is Mariana making sense?" Listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/show/...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/VZY0P...
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Original date of episode: March 20, 2023