Amazing: How Norbert Seihon’s Career Edge Internship Gave Him His First Canadian Experience and the Confidence to Know More Is Coming
“It gave me my first Canadian experience. I’m very sure that next month, I will get another opportunity. I learned a lot.” 
There’s something quietly powerful about that sentence. Not the certainty of arrival, but the certainty of direction. Norbert Seyon came to Canada as an experienced Human Resources professional, someone who had built real skills, managed real responsibilities, and understood the work. What he didn’t have yet was a Canadian credential to point to. The Career Edge internship at Markham Museum, from February to June 2026, gave him exactly that.
He describes the experience in one word: amazing.
“It gave me the opportunity to meet great people, to learn, and to put my experience that I had in my home country to the good use of this company.”
That last part matters. The internship wasn’t about starting from zero. It was about making visible what was already there, expertise built elsewhere, now applied here, in a new context, for a new organization. That’s a different kind of beginning. And it’s one that Career Edge is specifically designed to create.
The skills he walked away with were a mix of the technical and the deeply practical.
“The first skill I learned was to use software – ADP, which I had never used before. I also learned communication skills because it helped me improve my English. And organization skills. These are the three skills I learned there.”
Software fluency. Communication in a new professional language. Organizational systems that match Canadian workplace expectations. None of these are small things for someone building their professional footing in a new country – and all of them travel directly into the next role.
The advice he’d give his younger self is the kind that sounds simple and isn’t.
“Stop putting too much pressure on yourself. Just start, and everything will be okay.”
That’s hard-won wisdom. The pressure to perform perfectly from day one, to already know everything, to prove yourself before you’ve had the chance to settle in – it’s a weight that many newcomers carry silently. Norbert’s advice is a direct answer to it: begin, and trust the process to unfold.
He’s already living that advice. At the time of this interview, he was actively interviewing, grounded in the confidence that the internship had given him something concrete to point to.
“I’m confident that this internship will help me get another opportunity. I’m interviewing currently – and I’m confident that next month, for sure, I will get another opportunity.”
On what employers can do better for early talent and newcomers, his framing is one of the most human ones in this series: “Employers can be more like coaches. It’s not easy for interns, they should be asking questions like: am I able to do the job? Am I able to meet the requirements? Employers should be much closer to them, to coach them, to help them achieve their goals.”
Not managers. Coaches. The distinction is intentional, coaching implies investment, proximity, and belief in what someone is capable of becoming. That’s what early talent needs most, and it’s what Norbert is asking employers to show up with.
For Career Edge, on 30 years of building those bridges: “I just want to thank Career Edge and tell them that I’m really happy. I really enjoyed my experience with Markham Museum, and I hope they will continue with this program to help newcomers – and also students. I wish all of the best to Career Edge in the future.”