What is the present day job scenario for newly immigrating highly skilled engineers from India?

[Nidhib1106]

2 scenarios should be considered :

1. A chemical/mechanical engineer from the top 5 IITs in India wishing to do an engineering job in industry

2. An academic having done B.Tech. from IIT and PhD from a tier 1 USA University (Something like UCLA, U of Michigan, UIUC but not MIT or Stanford) wishing to join as an asst. prof at a good Canadian University.

I have heard bad stories about Canadian job givers only caring about whether you have Candian credentials or not and not at all caring about how good non-Canadian credentials are. Someone told me an IITian worked as security watchman and some other top engineering college student was driving taxi.

P.S. For those unaware about IITs they are the most highly regarded engineering universities in India, called by some as the MIT of India. IITians are very highly regarded and get great jobs in India. IIT is also well known in the USA (but obviously not as well known as it is in India)

 

[Porya MohSo]

I read a blog post from this Indian couple who now live in Canada. They both got good jobs in their own field after only 1 month. According to their blog, both applied to at least 30 jobs a day, each. And that's how they got it.

On the other side I have also spoken to some that live in canada and they say that it is nearly impossible to get a job in your field. So when I asked them how often they apply for jobs. The answer was dissapointing. They told me that they apply for 1 job a week. And clearly going about it like that than I think all of us will have problems getting a good job

So it all really depends on you and how you go about to solve this problem