Walmart and Iman Aghay

Iran: He says it was a tough start. "I remember when I went to Walmart to drop off my resumé to get a job as a cashier, they told me, the last 2 weeks they had over 500 people dropping off their resumé and all of them could speak English properly," he said, according to CBC. A year of unemployment Back in 2007, when Aghay was still living in Iran, he decided he wanted to become an international professional public speaker. "With an Iranian passport, with the limited ability to travel to different countries, it was kind of like a big dream — a massive dream," he said. Aghay and his wife landed in Canada in March 2009 with little money, poor English-speaking skills, and no Canadian-recognized credentials. Iman Aghay, founder of Vancouver Business Network, arrived in Canada in 2009 and worked 18-hour days to start his own business as a website and SEO consultant. But things would get worse before they got better, he found. "Three days later I realized that my money was not going to follow me, and I still couldn't speak English properly," he said. "And I had no recognized credentials." He handed out hundreds of resumés for 11 months. "That was when we ran out of money. He and his wife arrived in Canada in March 2009 with, what he thought, was $12,000 in their pocket. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.