In this episode, I speak with Sanchari Sen Rai. She moved from India to Canada 10 years ago. She shares her immigration story with us today.

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Learn more about Sanchari Sen Rai

Sanchari Sen Rai

Sanchari is an immigrant small business entrepreneur and an Immigration Consultant leading an all-women team, the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of EDUCATION CONSULTANTS CANADA (ECC) Inc. that helps thousands of international students work through the onerous process of applying to study in Canada. She has been awarded as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award 2019 (Entrepreneur Category). She was also the top 50 finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award and a finalist for the Women of Inspiration Award 2020.

At ECC, Sanchari aspires to do business in a certain way, where her women employees leave with more than just job skills. Through rigorous self-development training, they are empowered with vital communication and life skills that will carry them throughout their professional and personal journey.

ECC is a bootstrapping company and gives novice opportunities as a new hire, especially international students. Sanchari believes that for students to succeed in their studies abroad, they must be armed with the right information and the right support structure. When a student is nurtured to academic success, it paves the way for that student to remain, integrate with the culture and diversity and be a part of the community.

Given the challenges faced by all, especially international students with the pandemic over the past year, she had been trying to make an impact by pivoting the business, creating jobs, internship opportunities for international students. She is actively associated as Mentor with three different organizations volunteering her time for immigrant women, international students, and newcomers to the country, especially during this unprecedented time.

As a business owner, she has the expertise to consult in her industry—so using that expertise to offering valued services for free, like providing consultation to job seekers who are fresh immigrants/fresh graduates in the country on their resume design and interviewing skills.

Fostering employee satisfaction through community engagement during the pandemic, She and her team have donated food, cards, and gifts to senior living charitable organizations to boost her employees' morale as they felt more involved and there was a sense of togetherness doing it as a team.

She, in her own small unique way, is a role model contributing to the greater good and making positive change and trying her best to make an impact on inspiring other young women who come here as international students or new immigrant and aspire to make a career for themselves and live the Canadian dream.

Get in touch with Sanchari Sen Rai

email: [email protected]