Question about work in Canada

altin_2

Hi all.
A few friends keep telling how easy is to find a work and how good quality of life is in CANADA. (I'm a IT professional with a BSc and a few years experience).

Anyway....prior to thinking of moving, have anyone tried to move there...

I know is different for everyone...but just getting an extra opinion(not that I don't believe my friends).

Also, being British, we have right to visit Canada for a maximum of 3 months without a visa...can we do any work during this time?

Thanks

withabix

You can't work there without a Temporary Worker Visa, British or not.

Everything you need to know is here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp


As I have been there, done that, I can tell you that it is VERY difficult to get a Temporary Worker Visa at present, or immigrate permanently either.

Much harder to enter Canada to work than it is to enter the UK. MUCH harder.

Processing times are measured in months and years.

IT professionals are not on the current fast-track list, so you need to get a job offer first and your potential employer needs to apply on your behalf. This will reduce it to months, however the employer has to prove that there aren't suitable available Canadians who can be employed instead.

dandelionclock30

It cant be that easy or elce everyone would have left Blighty.

SarEl

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

It cant be that easy or elce everyone would have left Blighty.

A close friend of mine is Canadian. It's a bad there as it is here. her daughter is in IT and has a couple of decades of experience. The best she has been able to obtain for the last few years is some seasonal work and odd contracts here and there outside the season - and that is with an "in" on the seasonal work via relatives who work there. She gets no health insurance because she isn't a permanant employee, and there is no NHS - her parents, who are both retired, have to pay for her medications because she has a condition which, without medications, would prevent her from being able to work at all, and there are too many periods when her income is so low or non-existant that she cannot afford them.

The grass isn't greener...

withabix

The Canadian immigration system is one that we should adopt in the UK as soon as possible.

The Government are considering the Canadian model and their fastrack system for allowing (and positively encouraging) immigrants who want to fill jobs that British people don't want to do or cannot be filled due to demand, whilst refusing entry to people who will damage the UK job market.

It will help to solve a LOT of problems and is adaptable to job market conditions.

SarEl

withabix wrote: »

The Canadian immigration system is one that we should adopt in the UK as soon as possible.

The Government are considering the Canadian model and their fastrack system for allowing (and positively encouraging) immigrants who want to fill jobs that British people don't want to do or cannot be filled due to demand, whilst refusing entry to people who will damage the UK job market.

It will help to solve a LOT of problems and is adaptable to job market conditions.

Isn't it a contradiction in terms to suggest that immigrants should be allowed to do jobs that British people don't want to do, and that this doesn't damage the UK job market? I wasn't aware that the unemployment levels had dropped to such an extent.

Yorkie1

I have a friend who has an IT specialism and has applied to work in Canada several times. Despite her significant project management and other associated experience in addition to her specialism, each time she has failed to get sufficient points to be granted the visa (or whatever the official terminology is).

It is not easy and don't assume they will allow you in with open arms.

altin_2

Thanks guys.

Have a better understanding of where I stand now. :sad: