From what I gather from the discussion in this thread, according to CEC candidates foreign work experience and foreign education is worthless compared to Canadian education and Canadian work experience in Canada and even if a FSW candidate lands in Canada, they won't be able the integrate or find jobs because they have never lived in Canada. Wonder what the FSW candidates who were getting PR visas since the last 5 years are doing there now.
I do have a theory regarding this widespread conception that "without the college and years of Canadian experience you won't get a decent job". I hope my view does not offend anyone, it's merely a technical analysis:
Usually those who opt for doing a college, spending over 30-40k CAD + proof of funds + limitations on working hours, etc are exactly those who simply couldn't immigrate through FSW because they wouldn't achieve the necessary levels of english/french or didn't have the qualifications necessary to get a competitive CRS score. Many of them even had to go through the Pathway program before actually being eligible to enroll in a college program.
Otherwise: if these people already had 460+ points, why would they spend this amount of money moving here and accepting all of these absurds conditions?
So, this basically explains why these same people complain that when they arrived in Canada they couldn't find a job, they couldn't integrate well with the native Canadians, how limited their budget was due to minimum wage salaries, why they had to remain closed in their own guetos, and so on.
Because:
1 - They (probably) didn't have a good level of english proficiency (if they had, they would be applying directly through FSW), therefore, they would face the consequences of that while trying to integrate with Canadians, doing job interviews, networking, etc.
2 - They couldn't work full time (therefore, of course their budget was limited and they had to downgrade their standards of living)
3 - They could not benefit from student grants and other federal financial aids offered to citizens and resident permanents
4 - They (might) face a hard time looking for a stable job, because some employers might not feel confident about hiring someone who has an expiration date on their visas.
My whole point here is: I usually don't see that level of complaints from outland FSW that arrive in Canada, really. Sure, pretty much everyone will need to work at Tim Hortons or Wallmart initially, many will need to support themselves for 6 months, maybe a year, earning minimum wage and sometimes having more than 1 job to be able to work 40 hours a week, etc. But honestly, from all the FSW outlanders that I met in the last year, not a single one of them complains as much as I see some PGWPs applicants complaining. My theory is: the higher your CRS, easier things will be for you once you land. Seems reasonable.
