Foreign credentials recognition

[majkla]

Just heard on CBC Radio News...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/30/foreign-trained-professionals-workers-certification.html

Still, a long time to wait till 2013 for some professions.

 

[anbesivam]

Sorry this is very basic: 'Training' in this context refers to education + work experience right?

“It used to be that it could take two years after someone got here just to find out where and how to get their credentials evaluated,” said Finley.

What exactly does getting one's credentials examined mean? Does it mean all the experience gained outside Canada doesn't count for much at all?

The move is meant to deal with the problem of professionals who received their training outside Canada working at jobs that don't make use of their skills.
Statistics Canada says six out of 10 immigrants work in jobs in a field differing from the one in which they worked in abroad.
In addition, 42 per cent of newcomers between ages 25 and 54 have a higher level of education than their job requires. For Canadian-born employees, that figure is 28 per cent.
Media reports have long highlighted the problem of doctors working as pizza makers or cab drivers, for example. Many provinces and territories are struggling to make do with too few physicians, especially family doctors.

Wow, this one's a real big rude shock for me! It sounds like this is the norm and not the exception (which is what i thought after reading Josh's thread).

I don't get this. So, we give up a good job, security, take the decision of our lives and go there only to find out we are going to get relevant jobs only if we have Canadian education or Canadian experience (chicken-egg story)! Then how are we supposed to get a job in our skill set? After spending so much and with a family to support, getting a Canadian degree/certificate wouldn't be the most economically feasible thing to do right? And what is the whole point of this federal skilled worker thing with its job code lists which we need to conform to strictly if its not going to be of much use when we actually land there and start job hunting?
Am i missing something?

 

[boss2009]

It is a very difficult ant tricky thing.

I am a Engineer , i have been looking for engineering jobs in canada , they all want you to be a P.engg ( it is a regulated profession ) , for diploma jobs they want you to have red seal certification.

To be a P.engg , you need to have canadian experience ( which u cannot get unless you are P.Engg)

To do red seal , you have to appear in a exam , but as per the websites , only people who have done apprenticeship (2-5 yrs) in canada can sit in this exam ....

SO , what does one do ? Any engineers out there , please guide me.

If canada wants us to work as cab drivers/pizza makers , then why dont they ask for those professions only, why call skilled people to canada and tell them that they are not good....

 

[boss2009]

And i feel sorry for people who are SO EXCITED on this forum about getting the visa , i think the poor fellows dont know what awaits them ,
everyone thinks , that somehow he will make it , somehow they will excuse him and let him pick a job.....

 

[anbesivam]

Wow, just after starting the process i get to know of all this. Neat!

 

[anbesivam]

If canada wants us to work as cab drivers/pizza makers , then why dont they ask for those professions only, why call skilled people to canada and tell them that they are not good....

Exactly!

And it looks like this is the case for even non-regulated professions like IT. I just hope somebody gives evidence to the contrary

 

[jojiao]

It is a very difficult ant tricky thing.

I am a Engineer , i have been looking for engineering jobs in canada , they all want you to be a P.engg ( it is a regulated profession ) , for diploma jobs they want you to have red seal certification.

To be a P.engg , you need to have canadian experience ( which u cannot get unless you are P.Engg)

To do red seal , you have to appear in a exam , but as per the websites , only people who have done apprenticeship (2-5 yrs) in canada can sit in this exam ....

SO , what does one do ? Any engineers out there , please guide me.

If canada wants us to work as cab drivers/pizza makers , then why dont they ask for those professions only, why call skilled people to canada and tell them that they are not good....

K
Dear boss,


Are you in Canada ? Please tell me for all categories to sit for red seal exams we need to get 2 year work experience ? Please explain me about red seal..


Jojiao