Job Bank Matching Is A Scam / We're Fools to Believe it!

[Sugar2016]

Ideally the job bank should allow you to post your CV/Resume so any interested employers can approach us.

I agree that the JB is a time waste. Its only really possible to get a job if you have a PR.

 

[alok4best]

You see, in theory job bank is great tool which is meant to help employers find foreign talent in case they are not able to find a candidate locally.

Now let's come to practical aspect. You see when Canada already has an active PR program running, it is very very unlikely that an employer will find it difficult to find a candidate locally. Hence, barring exceptional circumstances when a company might need someone with an exceptionally rare talent (you see like a thermonuclear scientist or something) from abroad, job bank mostly serves as placeholder to satisfy the govt requirement before employers can actually seek LMIA.

Naturally, in such cases, employers already know who they are going to hire and all these ads are just a formality. They even go to an extent of conducting interviews and rejecting candidates to build a case where they can prove that they interviewed X no of people but failed to find a match.
Which will explain why some of you got interviews.

 

[ButterflyChemist]

I'm indeed skeptical due to your wording.

From my own personal experience, I just can't think of a job that no Canadians cannot do due to lack of skills, and how can this Canadian company started from the very first if they cannot hire any locals?

At no point did I say that my company does not hire locals. Merely pointed out that there are skills which are lacking that they have had to seek foreigners to fill.

 

[ButterflyChemist]

You see, in theory job bank is great tool which is meant to help employers find foreign talent in case they are not able to find a candidate locally.

Now let's come to practical aspect. You see when Canada already has an active PR program running, it is very very unlikely that an employer will find it difficult to find a candidate locally. Hence, barring exceptional circumstances when a company might need someone with an exceptionally rare talent (you see like a thermonuclear scientist or something) from abroad, job bank mostly serves as placeholder to satisfy the govt requirement before employers can actually seek LMIA.

Naturally, in such cases, employers already know who they are going to hire and all these ads are just a formality. They even go to an extent of conducting interviews and rejecting candidates to build a case where they can prove that they interviewed X no of people but failed to find a match.
Which will explain why some of you got interviews.

I do agree with you about one of the intended benefits of jobbank. However while it may be true in a few cases I don't see why employers would go through the time consuming process of interviewing just to reject. It is far more likely that the interviews didn't yield a good match. Also their is no benefit to for conducting interviews of foreigners for the sake of formality because the whole aim is to get Canadians and pr employed so employers would need to interview citizens and pr holders and prove why they weren't good candidates, not workers outside the country. Who is going to spend time and money to bring in someone when there is local talent available.

 

[alok4best]

I do agree with you about one of the intended benefits of jobbank. However while it may be true in a few cases I don't see why employers would go through the time consuming process of interviewing just to reject. It is far more likely that the interviews didn't yield a good match. Also their is no benefit to for conducting interviews of foreigners for the sake of formality because the whole aim is to get Canadians and pr employed so employers would need to interview citizens and pr holders and prove why they weren't good candidates, not workers outside the country. Who is going to spend time and money to bring in someone when there is local talent available.

That's correct. In most certainty employers would simply hire a local Canadian (i.e. Citizen or a PR). I was talking about cases when they will actually hire a foreigner. As you said, hiring someone from abroad is a painful task for any employer (financially and effort wise).
So they will only go about doing it if they want some exceptionally rare skill.
Or, they are trying to intentionally bring someone over. And I have witnessed this happening up close and personal.

My answer was mostly in response to whether Job Bank is actually useful for people searching for a job offer in their pursuit of a PR. And frankly, job bank is pretty much useless in that regards.

 

[ButterflyChemist]

For those wondering and in case my handle didn't provide a clue , I'm a chemist. Specifically a a paint chemist with over 10 years experience. Go ahead and tell me how many chemists you know let alone one that specialises in paint. Everytime I go to conduct business and state my occupation people are fascinated because they haven't encountered persons like me before.

 

[siddharthbala]

For those wondering and in case my handle didn't provide a clue , I'm a chemist. Specifically a a paint chemist with over 10 years experience. Go ahead and tell me how many chemists you know let alone one that specialises in paint. Everytime I go to conduct business and state my occupation people are fascinated because they haven't encountered persons like me before.

To be honest, even I have no clue what that's like

In my mind, I'm totally going to be imagining you have a super niche job like this guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtFH2bFCfg

 

[Hansdza]

For those wondering and in case my handle didn't provide a clue , I'm a chemist. Specifically a a paint chemist with over 10 years experience. Go ahead and tell me how many chemists you know let alone one that specialises in paint. Everytime I go to conduct business and state my occupation people are fascinated because they haven't encountered persons like me before.

For real tho? I know for sure the job market for chemist is very small and the competition is worse than business or engineering grads.

Just look at what people sez about being a chemist http://sciencenotes.org/working-as-a-chemist-what-real-chemists-have-to-say/

Wow man.. you are really exceptional. It is a really tough route to secure a job and the pay is horrible. No offence. But you are super lucky and It s good to hear that you can secure a job in a tiny market as Canada

Perhaps you can share the lawyer who helped you to get the LMIA if you had one. He/she must be a really good one.

 

[ButterflyChemist]

For real tho? I know for sure the job market for chemist is very small and the competition is worse than business or engineering grads.

Just look at what people sez about being a chemist http://sciencenotes.org/working-as-a-chemist-what-real-chemists-have-to-say/

Wow man.. you are really exceptional. It is a really tough route to secure a job and the pay is horrible. No offence. But you are super lucky and It s good to hear that you can secure a job in a tiny market as Canada

Perhaps you can share the lawyer who helped you to get the LMIA if you had one. He/she must be a really good one.

For one my company did my LMIA application without lawyers or consultants. Secondly did you even read the article you posted? How many responses were there and where were these chemists from? If you take a look a chemists jobs on Jobbank and look at the median wage section you'll have an idea of what chemists in Canada get paid. I wish people would stop trying to mislead others.

 

[Hansdza]

For one my company did my LMIA application without lawyers or consultants. Secondly did you even read the article you posted? How many responses were there and where were these chemists from? If you take a look a chemists jobs on Jobbank and look at the median wage section you'll have an idea of what chemists in Canada get paid. I wish people would stop trying to mislead others.

No man. Some of my classmates in my master's degree program are chemist. Those are exatcly the very same reasons why they tried to change their field to business.

Anyway. I am not here to discuss about chemist job market. Like I said before. It's good that you can secure a job in Canada as a chemist. It might not be that easy for other people in general.

The whole point of this thread is to inform those who read the comments to realize the reality of Job Bank based on limited responds from forum member like you, me and others who have commented.

I think those readers got the idea of what we have written. No need to argue further.

 

[axlh17]

For one my company did my LMIA application without lawyers or consultants. Secondly did you even read the article you posted? How many responses were there and where were these chemists from? If you take a look a chemists jobs on Jobbank and look at the median wage section you'll have an idea of what chemists in Canada get paid. I wish people would stop trying to mislead others.

Fellow chemist here. Would like your advice on some things... Sent you a PM.

 

[Kiriboy]

No it's not a scam. It's real. But the chances of getting an interview from a job bank is close to zero. They just put the job posting there to comply with regulations but they already have someone to hire either from referral or their internal sources.

HI Hansda can you help me how to apply

 

[Kiriboy]

I have gotten interview calls from two pretty good companies from a few that I applied over at job bank. It has worked for me!

how to apply from outside Canada can you help me