International Corporate Experience Made Armitage Unhirable in Vancouver
Alex Armitage · The Fog That Lifted: What Being Unhirable Really Means · Jun 29, 2021 · at 4:07
Serial entrepreneur Alex Armitage explains how difficulty finding corporate employment in Vancouver after working in London and Amsterdam pushed him to start his own businesses.
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“I had all this international experience at some huge, well-respected companies, leaders in their fields. And I was basically told that I needed local experience, which I didn't even know that was necessary unless maybe you were like working in a restaurant or something. Or selling to restaurants or that kind of thing. I was on hireable.”
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