Those of you who have already received their PR and have started living in Canada, please enlighten the rest of us. There seems to be a lot of talk around this notion of 'Canadian Experience'. I don't know how much of this is fact, and how much of it is a myth, but apparently, the work experience that we immigrants have acquired in our home countries is not taken into account (or, to put it a bit more crudely, given much value) while giving us jobs or gigs or projects in Canada. The rationale offered is that we would not know how to hit the ground running because we do not have the experience of the Canadian work culture. In fact, we are advised not to be afraid or unwilling to 'start afresh'. How much of this is true? Is it really true that your years of work experience is not given much value in Canada? Those who have landed, please share your experience around finding work in Canada, because I think this is an important issue and a question that pertains to all of us.
