Job sponsor without experience tips?

[jvid23]

Hi
Wanting to stay in Canada long enough to get PR and getting sponsored by a job seems like my last
option if I dont want to go home work for a year or two to save up enough money to study. Which I dont.
Im currently on a visitor visa until June, living in Whistler/hoping to move to Canmore, and was hoping to during this time
find a job that is willing to sponsor me. (offer to pay all the fees, hoping that they value a long term worker in these tourist resorts).
Has anyone done this before and can give me some tips?
Or any tips in general about the process and LMIAs etc?
Been trying to read about this but its always clearer when someone
lists it here than all the different sites who seems to make everything sound very complicated.
Want to know all the details when I go speak to businesses about this.

Im 24, swedish, with experience only in hospitality (bars, cafes, housekeeping) and babysitting. Have supervised before. Highest education i have is high school.

Thanks heaps

 

[scylla]

The LMIA process is long and expensive. So you want to be hitting businesses that are having a lot of difficulty hiring people with the right skills to fill their roles. Part of the LMIA requirement involves advertising the job for at least a month to prove no Canadian could be found for the role - so they employer has to be willing to spend money to meet this advertising requirement. Once the job has been properly advertised for a month, the employer then has to submit the LMIA application for processing. Typically the wait time for this is at least a few months. So one of the things you're looking for is an employer who is willing to wait several months (as well as do the paperwork and spend the money required) before you'll be able to work. It is quite a complicated process (e.g. you can't just advertise anywhere - you have to meet the LMIA advertising requirements). And there's no guarantee of approval at the end.

However based on your age, you should really be looking into the IEC / Working Holiday Visa program. If accepted, this gives you an open work permit for a period of time (no need to find an employer first or get an LMIA). I think this is a FAR more realistic option for you. Based on your experience and education, finding an employer willing to go through the LMAI process will likely be very challenging. You will need to purchase health insurance to participate in the IEC program and have a bank balance of at least $2,500. More info here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/iec/eligibility.asp?country=se&cat=wh

 

[jvid23]

However based on your age, you should really be looking into the IEC / Working Holiday Visa program. If accepted, this gives you an open work permit for a period of time (no need to find an employer first or get an LMIA). I think this is a FAR more realistic option for you. Based on your experience and education, finding an employer willing to go through the LMAI process will likely be very challenging. You will need to purchase health insurance to participate in the IEC program and have a bank balance of at least $2,500. More info here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/iec/eligibility.asp?country=se&cat=wh

Thank you for your reply!
I have used my one year working holiday already... How much is the LMIA process?
I have about 10 000 cad or more right now.

 

[scylla]

The employer is the one who has to pay all of the fees and for the advertising (not you). The fee is $1,000 - advertising is additional.

However the fee isn't the hard part. The hard part is the rest of the paperwork, including proving no Canadian could be found for the role. Plenty of LMIAs are refused because the government feels a Canadian should have easily been found for the role.

If you want to be well equipped to discuss what's involved with an employer, I would spend time reading through this web page in detail: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers/hire/median-wage/low.html