CCPAA-ON Seminar: Accelerate Your Career Growth
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Through case studies, this seminar analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese professional managers during the interview process and how to address them.
Case Study 1: Coaching Management Trainees Participating in Western Corporate Recruitment Processes
Advantages During Selection:
- Strengths at various stages of the selection process.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Several Generations of Chinese Immigrants During the Recruitment Process:
- Potential implicit biases that may prevent final selection.
- How to address these biases?
Areas for Improvement for Chinese Students During University:
- Key areas where Chinese students need to improve to be more competitive in the job market.
Case Study 2: The Interview Journey of Chinese Accounting Managers and Tax Managers, and Areas for Improvement for Chinese Professionals Climbing to Mid-Level Management:
Obvious Strengths and Weaknesses of Chinese Technical Talent:
- How to quickly establish relationships with senior interviewers and leave a positive impression.
- Limiting beliefs that hinder Chinese technical talent.
- How to overcome these limitations and expand potential.
Sharing of Joint Research Report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Columbia University Business School:
- The report highlights the underrepresentation of Chinese professionals in mid-to-senior levels in Western companies, significantly lower than South Asian immigrants.
- The underlying reasons for this disparity and how it relates to challenges faced during interviews.
- Strategies to address these challenges.
Featured Speakers
Vivian Li
Head of HR, People and Culture for North Horizon Holdings
Vivian has 20 years of experience in HR and her areas of expertise include recruitment, diversity and inclusion, performance management, succession planning, leadership development, HR technology and data analytics, employee engagement, training and development, contractor management, etc.
Vivian is currently the Head of HR, People and Culture for North Horizon Holdings, a Toronto-based investment firm. Vivian oversees all areas of HR practices for the firm to ensure the firm’s people strategy effectively supports its business development needs. Vivian and her colleagues thrive to build a culture in North Horizon that combines the best of East and West that empowers everyone to reach their highest potential.
Prior to this, Vivian was the Senior Manager of Inclusive Recruitment in RBC. In this role, Vivian designed and delivered an enterprise-wide global inclusive recruitment strategy to help RBC build its competitive edge through attracting and attaining an inclusive workforce, with a special focus on talent from diverse communities. Internally, Vivian worked closely with business and HR leaders to empower and drive change; externally, Vivian created an employer branding strategy and go-to-market campaigns to promote RBC as the employer of choice for diverse candidates.
Being an immigrant herself, Vivian understands the journey newcomers have to go through to build a new career and a new life here in Canada and has been a passionate volunteer in supporting newcomers in their job search for many years. Vivian has mentored many job seekers from diverse communities in their effort to build a successful career in Canada and has provided over 50 workshops on job searching and career development.
Lingping Li
Founder, CCG Learning and Coaching Services
Head of Coaching, WeWorkingWomen
ICF Professionally Certified Coach PCC
Affectionately known to the WeWorkingWomen community as Coach Ping, Lingping Li is a professionally-trained Career Development and Leadership Coach with over 20 years of managerial experience at multinational corporations.
Holding a bachelor’s degree from Beijing Language and Culture University and an MBA from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, she launched her career at multinational corporations in China, and quickly ascended the corporate ladder in one of the most competitive job markets in the world. Over the course of her 20 years of corporate career, Coach Ping has held senior-level managerial positions at companies including the Coca-Cola Company as the Director of Government Affairs, Kraft Foods as the Director of Corporate and Government Affairs, and Eli Lilly and Company, all of which were deeply engaged in the China market.
After immigrating to Canada in 2016, she established CCG Learning and Coaching Services. She became an ICF professional certified coach (PCC), an Erickson-certified coach, a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, and a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Facilitator (trained). At CCG, Coach Ping applies her management experience and deep understanding of Chinese and immigrant culture in Canada, to support both corporate and individual clients with career development and transitions, performance and change management, and leadership development.
As WeWorkingWomen’s Head of Coaching, Lingping leads key educational and training programs on North America’s largest community platform for overseas Chinese women.
Event Information
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm ET (registration starts at 1:15 pm) presentation & QA;
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET networking
Session Format: In person
Location: Toronto Public Library - North York Central (5120 Yonge St., North York, ON, M2N 5N9) Room 101
Dress code: Business Casual
Language: English
CPD credit: 1.50 hours
Cost: Member: $15, Non-member: $30
Maximum space: 50 people
Registration Deadline: August 10, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET
Member registration: please log in to your member account, and register under “Seminar”.
Non-member registration: please register through “阅读原文” or https://ccpaa.ca/seminars/seminar-accelerate-your-career-growth/
Active participation is mandatory for receiving the CPD certificate.
About CCPAA-ON
Established in 2008 in Ontario, The Canadian-Chinese Professional Accountants Association Ontario Chapter® (CCPAA-ON) is an independent and not-for-profit organization of professionals and scholars who are of Chinese origin and work in accounting, auditing and taxation or the related areas, including banking, investment, insurance, education institutions, government agencies, etc. Our mission is to enhance communication in research, education, regulation and business practices of accounting, auditing, finance, taxation and the related areas between Canada and China.
Our objectives are (1) to facilitate career and professional development of members in the accounting industry; (2) to provide opportunities for networking and enhance interaction among professional accountants in Canada and China; (3) to encourage members to understand the accounting, auditing, taxation and finance systems in both Canada and China.
加中专业会计师协会®（CCPAA-ON）是由在加拿大工作的具有中国背景的专业会计师为核心组成的独立的非营利性组织。CCPAA-ON于2008年正式在安省注册为非营利协会。协会的愿景是为会员和社区不断创造福利和价值，增强在加的会计师们的专业能力和职场发展，促进中加双边的商业贸易活动，进而为大家提供切实的利益。协会的会员大部分在加拿大的企业、机构、教育机构和政府部门从事财务、审计、税务等相关工作。
协会的主要目标为：
帮助会员在职业与专业领域的发展；
为在加中两国的专业会计师提供交流机会；
鼓励会员对加中两国会计、审计、税务以及金融系统进行深入了解。
十多年来，CCPAA-ON一路不断探索实践与时俱进，始终把为会员利益放在首位。越来越多来自天南海北的从事会计相关工作的朋友们汇聚在这里，成为一个大家庭。
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