Employment
How to look for and find
a Job in Canada
You want to immigrate to Canada and need to find employment. How do you go about it? Good news. There is a tremendous amount of help available. Research the job situation in the area where you want to live, research the job opportunities for your particular skill. Remember: if you have more information you can make better decisions.
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FINDING A JOB BEFORE MOVING TO CANADA
There are several ways to go about finding a job before arriving in Canada.
Skilled Workers
At present Canada needs more Skilled Workers. Applying for
Immigration to Canada as a skilled worker is not difficult. Skilled workers have education, work experience, and other
abilities that will help them to establish themselves successfully as permanent residents in Canada.
Regulated occupations
Some professions and trades are regulated in Canada to protect public health and safety. Twenty percent of people working in
Canada, such as doctors, nurses, engineers, electricians and teachers, work in regulated occupations. People who want to work in regulated jobs need to get a licence from the regulatory body in the province or territory where they want to work
FINDING A JOB AFTER ARRIVAL IN CANADA
In Canada, most people work at full-time or part-time jobs to support themselves and their families.
At first, you may find it difficult to get work that matches your skills. It may also be difficult to find a job that pays as much as you want until you get experience from a job in Canada. Your qualifications may not be accepted in Canada until you have Canadian documents or training, some work experience and a good working knowledge of English or French.
Until then, you may have to look for other employment. Try not to get discouraged. When the right job does come along, you
will benefit from your Canadian job experience.
Part-time jobs
A part-time job generally pays less than a full-time job. You work less than the usual amount of hours. You get paid at an hourly rate for the amount of hours you work. Usually no benefits, like health insurance. Many students have part-time
jobs.
Full-time jobs
The normal working week is 40 hours. Full-time jobs might pay
benefits, like health insurance and a higher hourly rate of pay for overtime. A full-time job can be unionized or non-unionized. Some employees are "on salary", meaning their pay is based on a certain amount of hours per week, without keeping
exact track of the amount of hours worked. The pay will be the same every week, making no difference if the employee worked
more or less hours than the regular amount.
Temporary jobs
Sometimes done on contract. You are hired for a certain job, for a set amount of time.
Employment Agencies
There are many agencies, specializing in particular fields of work or industries. Many specialize in
temporary placements. Some companies only hire new employees through an Agency, but they might offer a full time position
after a certain period of time. It's a good way to get some Canadian work experience.
My Employment Experience
In Holland I was a registered nurse. In order to get my Canadian RN licence I would have to write an exam. When arriving at the Customs desk the agent asked what I was going to do in Canada. I told him I hoped to find work as a nurse. He then told me to contact the City of Toronto Authoroties and ask for a job interview. This was a place I would never have thought of as a possible employer. I arrived in Toronto on Sunday, I contacted them on Monday, I had a job interview on Wednesday and the next Monday I started work as a nurse in a Senior Citizen Home. I then contacted the College of Nurses of Ontario, wrote and passed my exam and got my Canadian papers. I was then able to work as a Registered Nurse. I applied and was accepted in a hospital. After working there for about a year I wanted a different working schedule, so I started working with a Nursing Placement Agency. I could set my own schedule. I would work for 10 to 30 days in a row, then go on camping and canoeing trips in Algonquin Park. When I came back, I would phone the Placement Agency, ask if they had any work available and they usually had 5 to 10 job offers for me. I could pick and choose where I wanted to work. I often met other nurses who also worked with the placement agency, and they complained that there was no work for them. I was willing to work in any situation, intensive care, emergency, transplant unit, they were not, they turned down offers and therefore they were ranked differently at the Agency. Working with the Placement Agency gave me the freedom to explore Canada, go on holidays when family and friends visited from overseas, and I never had to worry about having a place to work when I wanted to work. My husband Frank came over as an agricultural foreign exchange student on a temporary workpermit. He applied for an extension, and then applied for his landed immigrant status from within Canada.
Stichting Uitwisseling
is a professional non-profit organisation which was founded in 1949. When we owned a dairy farm, we worked with this Agency for Agricultural Exchange and Studytours for many years to host a student each year. Several of those exchange students are now succesful Canadian Citizens with their own successful business or career.
Finding work before moving to Canada
Finding work after arriving in Canada
Employment Agencies
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