jobs in canada!!

[Hemi427]

I was wondering if we could all come together and discuss the job scenarios in canada. For instance what can a new immigrant or aspiring immigrant do to ensure he gets a job which suits his qualifications.

 

[Hemi427]

As far as i know, its vital to have a good balance between soft skills and technical skills.Additionally, one needs to specialise in her/her trade!!! Canada is all about specialists?

 

[SergiiK]

Be ready to work in survival jobs (Tim Hortons, Mac, security taxi, etc.) for the first 1-2-3 years.

 

[biz]

I was wondering if we could all come together and discuss the job scenarios in canada. For instance what can a new immigrant or aspiring immigrant do to ensure he gets a job which suits his qualifications.

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/finding-work-in-canada-b21.0/


Here's the link on a different discussion board

 

[polara69]

Be ready to work in survival jobs (Tim Hortons, Mac, security taxi, etc.) for the first 1-2-3 years.

Why? I never worked in a so called survival job. Allow yourself time to find the job you want, looking for a job is full time work. I always recommend to anyone to make contacts before you actually come here. I got here and within two weeks I was employed, full time with benefits.

 

[choctawindian]

I was wondering if we could all come together and discuss the job scenarios in canada. For instance what can a new immigrant or aspiring immigrant do to ensure he gets a job which suits his qualifications.

I'm not an "immigrant" to Canada in that I was born in Saskatchewan. But because I was RAISED in the US and have all my education in the US - M.I.T., Yale, New York Teaching Fellows, UC Hastings College of Law, Johns Hopkins...back in Canada I got treated like a "foreigner from abroad." I'm First Nations. I got so tired of being insulted everywhere I went (in Montreal) I went back to the US. If I can't make it in New Mexico, the US' "Indian Country," then I'd have no choice but to repatriate to Canada.

The job market for the "born in Canada, raised and educated somewhere else and now repatriated to Canada" is just as bad as it is for actual immigrants if not WORSE. They (employers) act like we're some kind of "sellout" or something. Worse than actual immigrants. I don't know what to tell actual immigrants except stop assuming I must be "from" somewhere else just because other people with brown skin usually "ARE."

Just because I was BORN there doesn't mean they don't treat me just like an "immigrant" on job applications. I once sent an application to some place in the Northwest Territories and they emailed back that they didn't hire anyone whom they'd have to sponsor for a visa. That's just stupid beyond belief. And Canadian stupidity is not like American stupidity in such matters. It's more mind-boggling.

You see, there's no place on most Canadian job applications to PUT where you were born. They "should" be able to tell by the first three digits of the social insurance number when you're NOT an immigrant but they either don't look at that past skin colour or they're not that smart.