THE TIMES OF CANADA MAY 2021
KULJIT CHAHAL BAL - An Angel for Job Seekers
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he first thing i noticed about Kuljit when I met her for the first time was her eyes. There was a lot of kindness and compassion and it felt like she was a person I could reach out to anytime I had a problem and needed some guidance and wisdom. At that time, I did not know her or what she did but the minute we started talking about her life and background, I knew that what I felt looking in her eyes was real, she was an angel. Growing up as a child in the Indian Armed Forces (her father was in the Indian Army), she got to live in several parts of India, giving her an early exposure into learning about people from different religions and languages. This childhood experience propelled her to complete her Master’s degree in English and her Bachelor’s degree in Education and choose teaching as a profession. Soon she met her husband Tony Bal and they were blessed with two children, Manjot and Jaskaranbir. Their decision to move to Canada in 2002 was a difficult one but she wanted to move closer to her extended family who were living in the United States. As a new immigrant in 2002, they went through their fair share of initial struggles in the first few years with her doing odd jobs and her husband driving a taxi with the North Shore Taxi company. After getting laid off from her last odd job, she decided she wanted to resume her career and after attending a career decision making class at DIVERSEcity, she decided to become an employment counsellor and went on to complete her Career Development Practitioner
Makeup : Karishma | Dresses : Rajisandhu’sjugnicollections | Prandhi : Le Fleur Jewels
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