Finding a Work Offer during my FSW process

[vigaviga]

I’m not the principal applicant but my wife. She’s a specialist physician and I’m a civil engineer. We both gave in IELTS results when we submitted documents.
She plans to study in Canada in order to be certified to practise there, which we already know is not that easy. Obviously, my plan is to get a job as we arrive. To this purpose, I’ve been warned against sending CVs until we are quite sure of a landing date, to evoid being penalized for inability by job centres.
What do you recommend? Doing the best now to find a Work Offer that could help speed up our process, or remaining waiting for decision.
Thank you in advance.

 

[aspire]

Vigaviga,

I am an engineer too and my wife is a nurse. Our PR is "in process" status now, applied under the new rules. I tried searching for job offers to speed up the process but I found out that with regulated professions like ours and yours, finding job offer before landing Canada is close to impossible. I don't want to discourage you but to have a job offer it has to be approved by HRSDC, and they will not approve it if your profession is regulated in Canada and you dont have a "Canadian license to practice". However. rules vary depending on the province. Foreign trained and educated nurses in Manitoba are welcome to register before landing Canada, provided you should take the licensure exam within a year from registration. Grace Hospital in Manitoba grants job offers to "registered applicants". I dont have any idea if the same goes true with physicians. But with engineers, you need to be a landed immigrant or a Canadian citizen before they will entertain assessing your qulaification. They will not register you before landing Canada. Equivalency of your educational qualification in Canada as an engineer is another issue. Mostly if not all, foreign trained and educated engineers have to undergo some sort of a bridging program(upgrade education) before you will qualify for registration.

My searching effort may be is not enough. Try to search for yourself. And please share it to me if you have found ways how to search for job offers.