MentorAbility Experience Story: Karina
Karina found her MentorAbility Experience highly beneficial, providing her with practical knowledge and confirming her desired career path was the right choice.
While working toward her Master of Business Administration degree, Karina sought to learn more about a career as a business analyst. March of Dimes Canada (MODC) met with Karina, accessed her desired career goal, determined that her analytical skills were very strong and agreed that she’d make a great business analysis.
MODC reached out to us at MentorAbility to arrange a mentorship and excitingly we were able to pair Karina with a professional business analyst at Sun Life to help answer her questions and concerns.
This mentor provided a detailed breakdown of day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of a business analyst and offered valuable insights into how this profession could be performed remotely to provide increased job flexibility. This mentor also helped Karina revise her resume to highlight her analytical skills.
Karina found her MentorAbility Experience highly beneficial, providing her with practical knowledge and confirming her desired career path was the right choice. Her mentor’s precise answers and supportive approach boosted Karina’s confidence and helped her with valuable networking opportunities for post-graduation job prospects.
Karina also continued her work with MODC to learn more about disability advocacy and accommodation in the workplace, and now she is passionately advocating for disability and inclusion. Karina joined a diversity group at one of Canada’s “Big Five” banks to advocate for neurodivergent individuals, noting that most DEI programs tend to overlook neurodivergent people and she’s determined to address this gap.
Karina hopes to contribute significantly to the hiring of neurodivergent individuals in the business world, and we applaud her important mission to change the future of disability and inclusion in Canada.
Great work Karina!