Hey everyone,
I am currently on PGWP and mine expires on June 2019. I recently finished a 4 months full time internship at a post secondary institution. Although my job is styled as internship, my job responsibilities are really just as similar to entry-level role people in this field (which is classified under NOC B). Following the end of my internship (last week), I was offered to work for 6 months (contract) with another office within the same university. This time, it's an actual entry-level role. If I successfully finish this contract, I will have about 10 months of experience in skilled work and therefore, should only require 2 more months of work to qualify for EE under CEC. Well, at least that's what I thought. Am I right?
My next question then, will having a contract based work conflict with my application for permanent residency? In my field, it's usual that entry-level people work on full time contracts (that sometimes get renewed over and over again) for 4-5 years before they actually land on a permanent position. I haven't accepted my contract offer yet because I'm worried about this.
(That being said, my degree is in a completely different field, I was in STEM and I found it very difficult to find a job in STEM with just a bachelor so I switched out and went to work in my other interest (higher education). I am also actually pretty good with tech though I don't like it as much (my degree was in biology lol) but I have been offered a tech support position before (the offer is still valid today). That's a permanent position and I have been thinking that I should just sacrifice a year (or 8 months) just to do this tech support thing to score PR first before actually going back to my interest in biology or even higher education.)
I am currently on PGWP and mine expires on June 2019. I recently finished a 4 months full time internship at a post secondary institution. Although my job is styled as internship, my job responsibilities are really just as similar to entry-level role people in this field (which is classified under NOC B). Following the end of my internship (last week), I was offered to work for 6 months (contract) with another office within the same university. This time, it's an actual entry-level role. If I successfully finish this contract, I will have about 10 months of experience in skilled work and therefore, should only require 2 more months of work to qualify for EE under CEC. Well, at least that's what I thought. Am I right?
My next question then, will having a contract based work conflict with my application for permanent residency? In my field, it's usual that entry-level people work on full time contracts (that sometimes get renewed over and over again) for 4-5 years before they actually land on a permanent position. I haven't accepted my contract offer yet because I'm worried about this.
(That being said, my degree is in a completely different field, I was in STEM and I found it very difficult to find a job in STEM with just a bachelor so I switched out and went to work in my other interest (higher education). I am also actually pretty good with tech though I don't like it as much (my degree was in biology lol) but I have been offered a tech support position before (the offer is still valid today). That's a permanent position and I have been thinking that I should just sacrifice a year (or 8 months) just to do this tech support thing to score PR first before actually going back to my interest in biology or even higher education.)
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