i would not like to comment on whether or not the person who asked personal questions was right - but would like to put forward my own opinion when it comes to hiring employees. It is based on my personal experiences and judgement - when I used to be in a position to hire and fire employees (obviously(?) that was before coming to Canada!).

I as an employer have always believed that in today's world your working life is equally important as your personal life - and I do not believe that there exists a switch which you can put off or on when you step out of your house to go for work - meaning thereby that there is an intimate connection between the two lives and they are not independent but highly inter-dependent.

Let us take few examples - one has a good job, both in terms of work and in terms of salary/remuneration. Such a person, more often than not, will leave for work in the morning in a cheerful mood and go back home satisfied. By doing this, there is a very high probability that his personal life will be good, without family problems and reasonably settled. On the other hand, if the same persona has a job which does not give him professional satisfaction or leaves him totally drained out at the end of the day, and does not pay well enough to run his household - neither will he leave home in a cheerful mood in the morning, nor will he be in a good mood when he goes home. He might be relieved while going home, but not happy - and that mood he will carry home and nitpick on small things ranging from spouse's behaviour to children's demands to TV show to food etc. etc. etc.

Another example is of a person who has a good family life and everything at home is nice - he will leave home in a good mood and he will look forward to going home after work. If his job is great, everything will be good, if his job is not good but something he detests, he might leave with a foul mood, but on reaching home, a happy family will recieve him well and try to cheer him up, refresh him etc. etc. However, if that person has a nagging spouse, spoiled children, broken family, and he or she is a single parent with lots of family problem, even if the job is good and well paying, that person will take his personal problems to his work, and that will definitely show up sometime or the other at work - if it is of a regular nature at home. Even a problem like a terminally sick relative at home could constantly disturb your routine at office.

Hense, coming back to the original thought - I as an employer would always like to know what kind of a family life that prospective employee has. Whether a job is temporary or permanent, family situations will always affect or supplement work productivity. A person with a good and well settled family life is more likely to show a higher productivity than a person with any kind of family problems - realtionships, health, financial burdens, responsibilities etc.

I have experienced as an employer/supervisor that my subortinates who had happy and settled family lives have been more productive workers than those having problems at home. Infact my worst employee has been a separated lady who was highly experienced in her work, very good too - but with a terribble relationship with her not-yet-divorced husband. She was adrupt in office many a times due to calls from her husband, and reacted in a very rough manner on such occassions where she would start complaining if she was asked to alter or correct some letter or invoice prepared by her during those times.

And mind you - those HR people are more successful at their jobs who are able to handle human behaviour better than others - rather than ones who know the law and intracacies of manipulating HR bill.

My two cents.

Chandresh

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I am in Vancouver..

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Thank you CD friends, for your input.

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HOPE

Golden eye i second you on that

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I am in Vancouver..

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Thought it was in GTA which is usually known for such rip offs.
Vancouver , GTA , Montreal - Looks like all these 3 big cities are the same..

High rents
Low wages
High competition
high auto insurance rates
too many desis in one place..competing with each other rather than with Canadians..

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first language in vancouver

cantonese ?

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first language in vancouver

cantonese ?

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Mandarin is the language and cantonese is a dialect.

Chandresh

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Chandresh

Advice is free – lessons I charge for!!