Meet the Founder

Miguel Abascal

Here is my why to Open Mentoring

Coming to Canada was always my dream and in 2010 it became a reality. My dream quickly transformed into a nightmare when I couldn’t land a job in my profession and started a long journey of survival jobs for my first five years.

Back home, I was a CEO of a coffee company travelling the world promoting coffee. My first job in Canada was as a coffee server at Tim Hortons. Over the years, I worked at restaurants, construction, cleaning, and many others, which crashed my confidence.

I understand the difficulties and the massive effort of starting a new life in a new country. I discovered the power of Mentoring five years after I landed in Canada. Five years too late, if you ask me, because after that everything changed.

I became a mentoring addict and my career exploded with multiple promotions (many without looking for them) and finally working in my field and at my skill level. Not only I'm not underemployed anymore. I'm now living my true Canadian dream.

Open Mentoring takes overqualified and underemployed newcomers from frustrated and exhausted to confident and empowered by helping them get that life-changing job.