AutomotiveEngineer moving to Toronto. Plz help with job search in my field!
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Posted on: 21-07-15 11:46:50
TK - That's a good idea what the Chemist did. Maybe I should look for labor jobs in Auto field 
I will visit St.Gabriel, Manpower & Carrer Edge. Thanks!
AT- Tell me about it. I was called for an interview at a Tyre showroom for Parts Counter person role. After initial discussion on phone, the white owner told he wants to see how I work n made me do labor job for 1 whole day. I reminded him few times in between that I came for Parts Counter person role. The answer I got from him was I'll have to do any work available there. He was shouting at all workers in a cheap way, the way we don't even shout at our servants back home. At the ned of the day, the idiot owner handed me CAD100 n said he is looking to interview some more people & he'll get back to me if selected. I returned home with sore muscles & angry.
That's the reason wife doesn't want me to do Labor job, it's not about dignity but physical stress. Made a good friend here, who said he lost 8kg after 1 month of Labor job
Resume making skills and Interview skills sessions are what these employment agencies have told me to attend so far
There's a reason why survival jobs are termed as dead end jobs ... When you start working on these , due to multiple factors , it is difficult to get out and after a few years , you are in a dead end.
Finding and searching for a job is a full time job in itself !
I had promised to myself that I would not look for survival jobs for 3-4 months and if I did not find a job in my field , I would return back. I got my 1st break in Halifax and moved there to return back to Toronto 2 years later.
Prepare to grind for the next year and not grind in jobs but in studies ... Identify an industry , a local certification and work towards it ... or work towards changing your profession to IT in the QA / Testing field ... Study and practice for 10 hours every day for the next 6 months and hopefully you will see water !!
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Fido.
AutomotiveEngineer,
I think you have now ample information as a resource to go ahead and spread your wings as high as you can. The buck stops at you now. Go full swing.
One thing - there's no harm in doing a part time stint at Tim Horton or any other menial job in the meantime. Green bucks work great for the motivation, regardless of how little is it. Try it. It's another experience - at least in Canada 
. Better than to sit idle at home throughout the day.
Over to you, and your efforts.
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Originally posted by AutomotiveEngineer
Resume making skills and Interview skills sessions are what these employment agencies have told me to attend so far
They tell you that . Bcoz that's all the fools there are capable of doing and lot of them are getting paid $ 100,000 of tax payer's money to do that @ YMCA , Access , Skills For Change etc.
Those guys are actually less qualified and less educated than you, but they will sit there and pretend to teach you ..lol.
A good person I know who has a Masters from India and A Masters from UK ( Oxford ) with a perfect resume. And the fools at Access were telling her that her resume is NOT good enough for Canada and they made changes to her resume and butchered her resume !
Guess what she didn't believe their nonsense and kept on applying for jobs on her old resume ( which she had made herself ) and NOW she has a very good job with ENBRIDGE
..its a utility company mostly Natural Gas heating company.These fools from Access employment somehow found out she has a good job now , and wanted to take credit for it as they have to show a quota to the government to keep lining their own pockets.
They wanted her to feel feedback forms etc and give them credit ..lol..when they did absoulutely nothing for her
..she got the job on her own accord , on her own resume, on her own qualification, education and skills.She did nothing Access asked her to do , as she was more qualified than the fools sitting there..not only these fools WON'T guide you they will actually MISGUIDE YOU and send you on the wrong path, which is far worse !
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Originally posted by AutomotiveEngineer
TK - That's a good idea what the Chemist did. Maybe I should look for labor jobs in Auto field
AT- Tell me about it. I was called for an interview at a Tyre showroom for Parts Counter person role. After initial discussion on phone, the white owner told he wants to see how I work n made me do labor job for 1 whole day. I reminded him few times in between that I came for Parts Counter person role. The answer I got from him was I'll have to do any work available there. He was shouting at all workers in a cheap way, the way we don't even shout at our servants back home. At the ned of the day, the idiot owner handed me CAD100 n said he is looking to interview some more people & he'll get back to me if selected. I returned home with sore muscles & angry.
That's the reason wife doesn't want me to do Labor job, it's not about dignity but physical stress. Made a good friend here, who said he lost 8kg after 1 month of Labor job
The exact same thing happened to a friend of mine, when he went to an Independent but relatively big tire and mechanic shop. Its family owned and has about $ 1.5 million gross yearly revenue..not sure about the net profit though.
He was just supposed to do some administrative type nonsense over there..like purchase invoice, ordering, follow up with customers, some inventory, a bit of accounting , record keeping etc.
But the first day he went there the owner asked him to lift and arrange a truckload of used tires which they sell and install for customer's at a discount.
The tires were dumped on the ground and he had to mark the tires, label them and lift each and every heavy tires and arrange them on some stupid rack and shelves on top ! It was heavy , greasy and dirty work .
He did it for 1 hr and then asked the owner to get lost..ha ha. The owner was making $ 400 on sale & installation of 4 tires ..and he wanted this guy to arrange and lift all this crap on minimum wage
Wholeheartedly agree with 'adamthorat' above. 10 years ago when I landed, I stepped into one of these resource centres. I was already a professional, and the resume that they prepared for me was an utter crap. I threw it in the garbage, and went back to the one I created/formatted, proof-read from my Canadian born Engineer cousin, and started receiving interview calls.
The same story resumed when my wife got laid off from her work last year. Utterly crap interviewing sessions that she narrated it to me. Another cycle, when my Dad immigrated last year. He is a well educated man; but even he knew on an onset what he was getting into. In all 3 cases (myself included), we didn't get any help whatsoever.
I was very happy with the Conservatives when they somehow cut the funding for these centres. They are only good for the illiterate folks immigrating from Punjab's Pinds (villages). I am generalizing, but it's what it is.
Don't waste your time with these resource centers. Rather, try for 'CareerBridge'.
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