- Jun 21, 2011
- 23
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- Visa Office......
- Mexico City
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- 0213
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- Mar-2010
- Doc's Request.
- May-2010
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- Nov-2011
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- May-2011
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- June-2011
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- Aug-2011
Hello Guys,
I would like to share some of the experiences regarding the job search. The mail is bit long, so please bear with me. Hopefully, it will help some of you guys in IT industry who are planning to come here.
I am into my second month in Canada and still looking for the job. I come from IT industry and a Project manager by profession.
In beginning I registered with all the possible job portals (workopolis, monster, indeed, careerbuilder etc) for their job alerts for my domain. I applied to all applicable job posting for about 2 weeks. No one called back and I was getting worried. Then a friend of mine told me that it was starting of their summer vacations and that time tends to be slow as most people go on 1-2 weeks vacation with their kids.
I waited patiently and after another week or so, I started getting calls from recruiters to whom I had applied the jobs. I met with all of them and registered with all possible recruiters in Toronto (Hays, Randstad, Robert Half Quantum etc). They kept me informed if any suitable job came their way. However, I realized that this is not the efficient way to get the job as recruiters are no more than marketing people who send out best 2-4 profiles for any opening to their clients. They will not be sending the profiles to clients which they know wont be accepted by clients. (Yes, recruiters work for their clients and not for job seekers)
Till this point, I started losing my hope. Then I came across an immigrant services company called Acces Employment (http://accesemployment.ca). In my experience, this is the best organization for supporting new immigrants and has very good bridging programs that enable new immigrants with enough resources that we can find job ourself. They have many occupation specific programs (for free – funded by Canadian govt.) for IT, Accounting, marketing, engineering etc which are really helpful.
I am into the first week of the course IT connections from this organization and I feel confident already that I will find some job very soon. They not only prepare Canadian style resume which IT companies want, but also provide opportunities to connect with many recruiters. They also provide a business communication certification program from Ryerson University which is very helpful and recognized by IT companies here.
Now, without taking too much time and space, I will list some points which could be useful for many guys:
1. If possible, plan your landing date in Toronto such that your occupation specific program is about 2 weeks from your date of landing. Talk to concerned person from your home country and find out pre-requisites
2. Go and meet the people in Acces employment in the nearest center to your home. Get yourself registered to the next available course
3. Get your Canadian Language Benchmarking (CLB) test done in one of newcomer information center. Its free again and if you have dealt with enough English in your home country, it will be a piece of cake
4. Use linkedin to its fullest. Start adding relevant people from your industry in Toronto while you are still in home country. Write a personalized note to anyone you add and they will surely connect with you
5. For project managers, if you are not PMP certified, please get the certification done before coming to Canada. Its becoming a mandatory requirement here these days
6. If you are PMP, try to do some Volunteer work via pmi.org. There are virtual opportunities where in you have to spend some 10 hrs in 2 months sitting at home doing some work. It will give weight to your resume as volunteer work is valued a LOT here
7. Try attending CIIP course in your home country. It’s a 2 day workshop but they will give you lot of info and contact of Careeredge among other plethora of contacts. You register with then while you in home country and keep on applying to internship positions. Its not best thing, but no harm in applying. I have seen a couple of guys getting placed from here
8. Don’t get yourself into a survival job that takes a lot of your time. If you are stuck in that, you wont be able to work on your actual job search
I will close my mail here. The only message I want to give is that it is very easy to get demoralize while you are searching for a job. Treat job search as your full time job and be assured that there is a job available for you. It’s the matter of time and the way you approach it.
In case you need any help, message me and I can try to help you out with best of my ability.
Regards,
Sharat Joshi
I would like to share some of the experiences regarding the job search. The mail is bit long, so please bear with me. Hopefully, it will help some of you guys in IT industry who are planning to come here.
I am into my second month in Canada and still looking for the job. I come from IT industry and a Project manager by profession.
In beginning I registered with all the possible job portals (workopolis, monster, indeed, careerbuilder etc) for their job alerts for my domain. I applied to all applicable job posting for about 2 weeks. No one called back and I was getting worried. Then a friend of mine told me that it was starting of their summer vacations and that time tends to be slow as most people go on 1-2 weeks vacation with their kids.
I waited patiently and after another week or so, I started getting calls from recruiters to whom I had applied the jobs. I met with all of them and registered with all possible recruiters in Toronto (Hays, Randstad, Robert Half Quantum etc). They kept me informed if any suitable job came their way. However, I realized that this is not the efficient way to get the job as recruiters are no more than marketing people who send out best 2-4 profiles for any opening to their clients. They will not be sending the profiles to clients which they know wont be accepted by clients. (Yes, recruiters work for their clients and not for job seekers)
Till this point, I started losing my hope. Then I came across an immigrant services company called Acces Employment (http://accesemployment.ca). In my experience, this is the best organization for supporting new immigrants and has very good bridging programs that enable new immigrants with enough resources that we can find job ourself. They have many occupation specific programs (for free – funded by Canadian govt.) for IT, Accounting, marketing, engineering etc which are really helpful.
I am into the first week of the course IT connections from this organization and I feel confident already that I will find some job very soon. They not only prepare Canadian style resume which IT companies want, but also provide opportunities to connect with many recruiters. They also provide a business communication certification program from Ryerson University which is very helpful and recognized by IT companies here.
Now, without taking too much time and space, I will list some points which could be useful for many guys:
1. If possible, plan your landing date in Toronto such that your occupation specific program is about 2 weeks from your date of landing. Talk to concerned person from your home country and find out pre-requisites
2. Go and meet the people in Acces employment in the nearest center to your home. Get yourself registered to the next available course
3. Get your Canadian Language Benchmarking (CLB) test done in one of newcomer information center. Its free again and if you have dealt with enough English in your home country, it will be a piece of cake
4. Use linkedin to its fullest. Start adding relevant people from your industry in Toronto while you are still in home country. Write a personalized note to anyone you add and they will surely connect with you
5. For project managers, if you are not PMP certified, please get the certification done before coming to Canada. Its becoming a mandatory requirement here these days
6. If you are PMP, try to do some Volunteer work via pmi.org. There are virtual opportunities where in you have to spend some 10 hrs in 2 months sitting at home doing some work. It will give weight to your resume as volunteer work is valued a LOT here
7. Try attending CIIP course in your home country. It’s a 2 day workshop but they will give you lot of info and contact of Careeredge among other plethora of contacts. You register with then while you in home country and keep on applying to internship positions. Its not best thing, but no harm in applying. I have seen a couple of guys getting placed from here
8. Don’t get yourself into a survival job that takes a lot of your time. If you are stuck in that, you wont be able to work on your actual job search
I will close my mail here. The only message I want to give is that it is very easy to get demoralize while you are searching for a job. Treat job search as your full time job and be assured that there is a job available for you. It’s the matter of time and the way you approach it.
In case you need any help, message me and I can try to help you out with best of my ability.
Regards,
Sharat Joshi
