Coolguyme,

If you can effort, avoid doing survival job. Try your best to find the job in IT. Once you land in Canada, you can join CO-OP immediately before getting PR card on hand (You just need landing papers which you will receive before entering in Canada as part of approval of your immigration process) Spend time in co-op while you searching your job instead of doing survival job. You don’t need to pay anything (except your time + $15 registration fee) for this 5 months co-op program. It will give you an entry in your field. It will help you to find your desired job.

Please find my success story at http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=14747 thread.

I came from USA and started entry level job in IT as mention in above link. After 1.5 years of experience, I found another job with desired salary and still working for the same company from last 2 years. Try your best to get an entry in your field.

I had attended co-op program at
St. Gabriel Adult Learning Centre,
3750 Brandon Gate Dr., Mississauga, 905-362-0701;

You can find some more information at http://www.cnmag.ca/issue-14/36-issue-14/161-the-dufferin-peel-adult-learning-centres .

Best Luck

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Originally posted by meitsme

Coolguyme,

If you can effort, avoid doing survival job. Try your best to find the job in IT. Once you land in Canada, you can join CO-OP immediately before getting PR card on hand (You just need landing papers which you will receive before entering in Canada as part of approval of your immigration process) Spend time in co-op while you searching your job instead of doing survival job. You don’t need to pay anything (except your time + $15 registration fee) for this 5 months co-op program. It will give you an entry in your field. It will help you to find your desired job.

Please find my success story at http://www.canadiandesi.ca/read.php?TID=14747 thread.

I came from USA and started entry level job in IT as mention in above link. After 1.5 years of experience, I found another job with desired salary and still working for the same company from last 2 years. Try your best to get an entry in your field.

I had attended co-op program at
St. Gabriel Adult Learning Centre,
3750 Brandon Gate Dr., Mississauga, 905-362-0701;

You can find some more information at http://www.cnmag.ca/issue-14/36-issue-14/161-the-dufferin-peel-adult-learning-centres .

Best Luck

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I didn't mention labour job in Resume. (Actually I did labour job for 1.5 month only)
I mentioned co-op as training and volunteer job as canadian experience.

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hi Coolguyme,

We are also sailing in the same ship. We applied in 2005 and are told that can expect our PR sometime next year. if not may be in 2011.( which is too late)]
we too are confused just like u r..if we should proceed with this or not...:-(

Dear mona,

It was very soothing to read your reply.
Well, my husband is a Technical consultant/Architect and is 11 years experienced. We would like to find a job this year (possibly) and go and settle in Canada with our kid, before we get our PR. And for that we need to find an employer who would sponsor work permit.
Kindly advice on how we can proceed.
Are there any openings with work permit sponsored?
I understand that you are also in the IT field. Will it be possible to refer my husband? kindly let me know if you would be able help us on this:-)

Hi, Please check the link below :

http://www.careerbridge.ca/

It is good for new immigrants who wants 'Canadian' experience in their resume. (I don't know much about it other than I heard from someone who worked for Ontario Government under this program. He was in Accounting and had some IT experience and almost got absorbed (unfortunately currently FTEs are not getting hired there due to economy. I always found him very satisfied & happy with the program). I think, they get about 2K $ a month.
So, be very positive and since, you have very good experience - please go for it.
Regards + All the Best

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Hi, Please check the link below :

http://www.careerbridge.ca/

It is good for new immigrants who wants 'Canadian' experience in their resume. (I don't know much about it other than I heard from someone who worked for Ontario Government under this program. He was in Accounting and had some IT experience and almost got absorbed (unfortunately currently FTEs are not getting hired there due to economy. I always found him very satisfied & happy with the program). I think, they get about 2K $ a month.
So, be very positive and since, you have very good experience - please go for it.
Regards + All the Best

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Originally posted by paramhams03

Hi Coolguy,

You really need to be a coolguy, but do not seem to be so!!! well, all in good humour.

Now, you have certainly raised your concerns in the right forum. I am in community work and mental health field and my wife is in IT. She is not as highly qualified as yourself ( has a P.G. in IT in addition to PMP certification and vast banking experience) but had substantial experience in IT in India before she came here. Got a job in 15 days for 75k. Now, I learn from her that the IT market is not as bad as others. She works for various banks on behalf of her employer and is of the opinion that the market is indeed slightly on the upswing atleast in the banking sector.

Now, as far as the survival jobs go, not all survival jobs could be categorised as labour jobs as we understand. If the temperament is right, one could get a good call centre job which could be reasonably well paying for a start, around 500 to 600 dollars a week. But making around 1600 dollars a month is not difficult at all, even while trying to get into your own field.

Careerbridge is a wonderful organisation through which the possibilities of getting an internship position for 2000 dollars a month could be considered.

Personally, I do not think Canada is a better place coming into for a VERY SUCCESSFUL engineering or medical professional , but for IT and my own field which is Psychology, it is certainly worth venturing into.

I did get some very valuable advice from this forum which helped me enormously in the settling down process. Another thing I have noticed in Canada is the willingness if not eagerness of the settled immigrants to help those in the process of settling down.

So if things are not very promising in U.S. do consider Canada favourably and with a positive frame of mind. This is not to say that you will be offered things on a platter, but that the challenges are not impossible to overcome particularly for one with a IT background.

Best wishes,

Shankar Swaminathan

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