Provincial Nominee Program | International Student With a Job Offer

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Hi Everyone,

I completed a two year degree and will applying as an International Student with a job offer. I have received my Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) and I am currently looking for full-time work. I have concluded that in my situation, applying under the Provincial Nominee Program offered by Opportunities Ontario is the best option as far as the processing time is concerned.

Now I am trying to be proactive and therefore, planning to get to know the process of applying once I am provided with a job offer. As per the steps that are involved in the process, I have below inquiries:

1) Do I have to contact the HR department of the company that offered my with a job offer about filling the Pre-Screen Application Form?

2) Once they have the approval, I will then fill out the nominee application package and submit to the Opportunities Ontario Program.

3) As per the quote from Opportunities Ontario Website:

1. A full-time job consists of 1,560 hours of paid employment in a 12-month period. The following is not considered full-time work, even if workers are employed for 1,560 hours in a 12-month period:
- Seasonal, cyclical or part-time employees regardless of their working hours.
- Subcontractors or agency workers.
- Employees who do not work on the company's premises, such as employees who work from home, or employees who work in a ‘virtual' location and serve the employer by telecommuting.
A permanent job offer is continuous employment in a position designated as permanent and which has no specified end date. Opportunities Ontario will consider one year renewable contracts for international students on a case-by-case basis.

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In order to qualify for Opportunities Ontario, job offers must be permanent and full-time. Getting a first job after graduation is not an easy task and many students will not receive permanent full-time job offers right out of school. Given this reality for students, Opportunities Ontario will also consider one-year renewable contracts on a case-by-case basis.

Question: Are they saying that there should be potential of getting the contract renewed? OR are they saying that it should say somewhere on the contract that they might extend your contract at the end of the term?

If anyone is been through this process, kindly provide some useful feedback to make this transitional process better and simpler for me.

Thanks and Regards,