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One of the worst parts of the job hunt process is the post-interview waiting. After spending hours writing cover letters, prepping for interviews, researching companies and fine-tuning your resume, after the interview, the waiting period feels like it takes the longest. Some companies take weeks to months to notify candidates if they've got the job.

July 1st is Canada Day, which marks the country's independence day or "birthday" as many call it. To celebrate, Canadians across the country may have the day off and be watching the parades, while companies are eager to hire. There are hundreds of thousands of open jobs from Vancouver to Toronto and everywhere in between.

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China's $4.5bn online language learning market is fiercely competitive but Cindy Mi, founder and chief executive of online education company VIPKid, is not easily fazed. Inspired in part by bad experiences of teaching as a schoolgirl, Mi has forged her own path from an early age, eventually launching a real-time online tutoring company aimed at China's tens of millions of four- to 12-year-olds.

RUTLAND - Early each weekday, while her husband and two teenage children are still asleep, Samantha "Paige" Josti quietly makes her way down her cellar stairway and, after flicking on a few lights and computer switches, transforms into "Teacher Sam," unleashing her lesson plan to eager Chinese children halfway across the world.