Comments on: Well educated immigrants struggle to find good jobs http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/10/29/well-educated-immigrants-struggle-to-find-good-jobs/ News, analysis and commentary on Vancouver Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Entrepreneur? http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/10/29/well-educated-immigrants-struggle-to-find-good-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-45568 Entrepreneur? Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:33:57 +0000 http://thethunderbird.ca/?p=5749#comment-45568 GivingUp, I totally agree with you. In heard yesterday on the radio that the workforce is shrinking and that maybe in the future, corporations might have to make the baby boomers work beyond their retirement age. I was thinking to myself, this isn't true. Every year, Canada receives more than 100,000 highly skilled and educated immigrants in their productive ages. Have they ever considered them as a big chunk of the workforce? If that so, why are they saying the workforce is shrinking? Do you know that the corporations that won the award for "the most diverse companies" are the ones that provide training of mentorship for new immigrants, not hire them? Are we in the state of denial? I still truly believe that Canada has the potential to be one of the most advanced countries in the world. The fact that every year, super smart people are entering the country is a good sign. I also believe that companies that don't want to hire new immigrants, just made a very big mistake. Immigrants are smarter, they are willing to work harder, and they are cheaper! (This last point is the main reason why they are exploited by their employers) Let's not get drowned by our own regrets. Prepare yourself (update your skills), consolidate your skills with others, find capital, create your own businesses, be successful and show the Canadian corporations that they have made a huge mistake by under estimating your skills. And as racist as it may sound, when you become successful, hire (only) immigrants to help them out of their misery!! Make them as successful as yourself!! GivingUp, I totally agree with you.

In heard yesterday on the radio that the workforce is shrinking and that maybe in the future, corporations might have to make the baby boomers work beyond their retirement age. I was thinking to myself, this isn’t true. Every year, Canada receives more than 100,000 highly skilled and educated immigrants in their productive ages. Have they ever considered them as a big chunk of the workforce? If that so, why are they saying the workforce is shrinking?

Do you know that the corporations that won the award for “the most diverse companies” are the ones that provide training of mentorship for new immigrants, not hire them?

Are we in the state of denial? I still truly believe that Canada has the potential to be one of the most advanced countries in the world. The fact that every year, super smart people are entering the country is a good sign. I also believe that companies that don’t want to hire new immigrants, just made a very big mistake. Immigrants are smarter, they are willing to work harder, and they are cheaper! (This last point is the main reason why they are exploited by their employers)

Let’s not get drowned by our own regrets. Prepare yourself (update your skills), consolidate your skills with others, find capital, create your own businesses, be successful and show the Canadian corporations that they have made a huge mistake by under estimating your skills.

And as racist as it may sound, when you become successful, hire (only) immigrants to help them out of their misery!! Make them as successful as yourself!!

]]> By: GivingUp http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/10/29/well-educated-immigrants-struggle-to-find-good-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-31516 GivingUp Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:50:07 +0000 http://thethunderbird.ca/?p=5749#comment-31516 Well, all the mentioned above are in BC i'm in ontario and i'm a Network/Systems Engineer i have only 4 years of experience in my field from back home but that is quite enough to get a mid range job positioning in the IT field. My profession is a highly sough after field as published by staffing solution organizations and the government. I got my educations evaluated to canadian standards too, i'm a double BSc holder and both are evaluated to double BSc Canadian equivalent i have about five professional certifications from CISCO, but yet i am not working in my profession. Leave that alone i even didn't get even an interview for a single application submitted. I really think that it was a mistake coming to this god-forsaken place, even thinking of it depresses me. I got an interview for a tech job through a friends friend, when i went for the interview they were all nice and all, all through out the interview but when the technical guys interview they should know that we are not in extreme touch with our former jobs we do survival jobs that take us no where except get us the cash to help us survive and there is no need for what we have learned to be used in that environment, all i need is brute force and strength. Is this what my education has become of? Is canada really the proper place for us? I really am loosing hope and don't know what to do, it all looks hopeless. I have signed up for a program that will put an end to the endless cycle of "no job-no canadian experience-no job" but there not jobs for what i'm capable of. What i have found out about this place is that if not for immigrants the canadian economy and everything will crumble as we have no choice what-so-ever to take the survival jobs without thinking twice, and thus restraining the immigrants that are skilled from entering the productive work force. As i view this the canadian government is under utilizing its resources of skilled-labour and educated personals. As my dad says "If you get in a taxi you can get an elaborate description of what ever ailments you have-reason being quite a few taxis are driven by doctors qualified abroad". I can go on and on about this injustice and its endless, it is hope that is a poison that drowns us in and kills us slowly one day at a time. Well, all the mentioned above are in BC i’m in ontario and i’m a Network/Systems Engineer i have only 4 years of experience in my field from back home but that is quite enough to get a mid range job positioning in the IT field. My profession is a highly sough after field as published by staffing solution organizations and the government. I got my educations evaluated to canadian standards too, i’m a double BSc holder and both are evaluated to double BSc Canadian equivalent i have about five professional certifications from CISCO, but yet i am not working in my profession. Leave that alone i even didn’t get even an interview for a single application submitted. I really think that it was a mistake coming to this god-forsaken place, even thinking of it depresses me. I got an interview for a tech job through a friends friend, when i went for the interview they were all nice and all, all through out the interview but when the technical guys interview they should know that we are not in extreme touch with our former jobs we do survival jobs that take us no where except get us the cash to help us survive and there is no need for what we have learned to be used in that environment, all i need is brute force and strength. Is this what my education has become of? Is canada really the proper place for us? I really am loosing hope and don’t know what to do, it all looks hopeless. I have signed up for a program that will put an end to the endless cycle of “no job-no canadian experience-no job” but there not jobs for what i’m capable of. What i have found out about this place is that if not for immigrants the canadian economy and everything will crumble as we have no choice what-so-ever to take the survival jobs without thinking twice, and thus restraining the immigrants that are skilled from entering the productive work force. As i view this the canadian government is under utilizing its resources of skilled-labour and educated personals. As my dad says “If you get in a taxi you can get an elaborate description of what ever ailments you have-reason being quite a few taxis are driven by doctors qualified abroad”. I can go on and on about this injustice and its endless, it is hope that is a poison that drowns us in and kills us slowly one day at a time.

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