Hi Gayle,
Dont give up on it though. I ended up making a list of employers I would be interested in and writing to them all, the response was amazing! but .... catch 22, no visa no job. But, I figured at least I could let them know I was on my way over and they could keep me in mind for job vacancies.
I eventually got an interview with one of them about 4 weeks before I got my visa and I had to travel over for the interview.
However, once arriving thats when I noticed the main job sites are not viewed as often as people think. Workopolis is ok, and there are other sites. But I recently found myself looking for a second job and when I went to the local job agencies in the city, the ones that were daily advertising jobs I was told ..... 'Oh yeah, sorry, we do that just so we can keep an updated list of suitable candidates in case a vacancy comes up, but right now there arent any sorry'
It was the same story for 6 weeks before I ended up going back to a call centre and asking if they would take me on parrt time as I had worked there before. They did thankfully, otherwise I'd have been stuck! and that was just a second job.
Dont despair, you will find something, you just have to go that extra mile for the primary job. I was sending letters overseas all the time getting my resume out to companies I wanted to work for. It pays off in the end.
Good luck