Hi All,
we had my csq interview yesterday at newyork.
I will post my experience in detail.
First a little background .we applied in oct 2010
Noc 2171 software engineers
Ok so regarding French both of us didn’t took delf or anything like that.we studied by internet and just one month before interview we had a private tutor through skype.
We reached around 9 also we took our 2 year old daughter with us.
We waited at the reception and after 10 minutes the officer came and called us to his office.
He didn’t introduced him and he asked us in French did you speak French.
I answered in French I speak little French. Maybe after hearing my French he said I will ask you questions in English and will later evaluate your French skills. Then started asking my husband the following questions
1.job responsibilities
2.why in software after doing mechanical engineering.
3.did you do any specific training for working in sotware after btech?
4.did you try for permanent residence in US?
5.why not Toronto ?
6.Any relatives in Canada?
He asked for his experience letter and educational certificates.
initially when the interview started he said if I refuse you it will be only because of French and said the importance of knowing French to succeed in quebec.he said you may get a job with minimum French but you wont go up the ladder and stuff like that….
Then he said he was going to evaluate his French asked basic questions like company name ,
How long in us,when you started learning French ……..he asked around 10 questions but my husband only answered 4 .
And then he asked French questions to me basic questions only.
I answered almost every questions ,then he switched to English and asked
Why break in my career? And he asked my educational certificates
He said he was ok with my French but not my husbands
And after that he calculated points in his computer and said you are borderline ,I could only give you 3 points for your French.
An he said you live in newjersey and montreal is only 6 hours why you didn’t go to montreal.if you went to montreal I would have given you two points for that
We explained the reason why we didn’t go,
We thought he was going to reject us, then he said ok I will give you one more chance will ask some more questions in French .he said don’t be nervous.and asked some more questions to my husband more slowly this time my husband answered well
Then he said in French I am going to approve your csq hoping you will improve your French before reaching Quebec.
We were so relived. And our daughter was with us and he joked like you got your csq just because of her and complimented her.
He was very nice ,at first seemed to be very serious but by the end he was very friendly .
my daughter was getting disturbed so he said you wait outside I will print csq and give it to you.
He said you have 12 months for federal so improve your French and try to visit montreal.
That’s it..i hope my post is not sooo long
I want to thank all forum members ,I regularly visited this forum to know what type of questions they will ask and prepared accordingly. Once again thank you all…
we had my csq interview yesterday at newyork.
I will post my experience in detail.
First a little background .we applied in oct 2010
Noc 2171 software engineers
Ok so regarding French both of us didn’t took delf or anything like that.we studied by internet and just one month before interview we had a private tutor through skype.
We reached around 9 also we took our 2 year old daughter with us.
We waited at the reception and after 10 minutes the officer came and called us to his office.
He didn’t introduced him and he asked us in French did you speak French.
I answered in French I speak little French. Maybe after hearing my French he said I will ask you questions in English and will later evaluate your French skills. Then started asking my husband the following questions
1.job responsibilities
2.why in software after doing mechanical engineering.
3.did you do any specific training for working in sotware after btech?
4.did you try for permanent residence in US?
5.why not Toronto ?
6.Any relatives in Canada?
He asked for his experience letter and educational certificates.
initially when the interview started he said if I refuse you it will be only because of French and said the importance of knowing French to succeed in quebec.he said you may get a job with minimum French but you wont go up the ladder and stuff like that….
Then he said he was going to evaluate his French asked basic questions like company name ,
How long in us,when you started learning French ……..he asked around 10 questions but my husband only answered 4 .
And then he asked French questions to me basic questions only.
I answered almost every questions ,then he switched to English and asked
Why break in my career? And he asked my educational certificates
He said he was ok with my French but not my husbands
And after that he calculated points in his computer and said you are borderline ,I could only give you 3 points for your French.
An he said you live in newjersey and montreal is only 6 hours why you didn’t go to montreal.if you went to montreal I would have given you two points for that
We explained the reason why we didn’t go,
We thought he was going to reject us, then he said ok I will give you one more chance will ask some more questions in French .he said don’t be nervous.and asked some more questions to my husband more slowly this time my husband answered well
Then he said in French I am going to approve your csq hoping you will improve your French before reaching Quebec.
We were so relived. And our daughter was with us and he joked like you got your csq just because of her and complimented her.
He was very nice ,at first seemed to be very serious but by the end he was very friendly .
my daughter was getting disturbed so he said you wait outside I will print csq and give it to you.
He said you have 12 months for federal so improve your French and try to visit montreal.
That’s it..i hope my post is not sooo long
I want to thank all forum members ,I regularly visited this forum to know what type of questions they will ask and prepared accordingly. Once again thank you all…
