Credit: Mark Stebnicki from Pexels From seasonal farmhands to health care workers to high-level software analysts, immigrant workers play a significant role in companies and industries across Canada and around the globe. But immigrants also face a host of hurdles as they try to translate their knowledge, skills, and abilities in ways that employers recognize and value—and a groundbreaking review from the UBC Sauder School of Business examines that process, as well as how social networks and the length of time immigrants intend to stay affects their job prospects. Along the way, the team also developed cutting-edge machine learning models. When immigrants arrive on new shores, they must effectively present their knowledge, skills, and abilities in a way that employers can understand and appreciate; employers, in turn, have to determine how credible and transferable their skills really are.…