Entry Level Positions

[simonvee]

Hi alll,

Can anybody help me do a brain storm to figure out entry level positions, besides the food & beverage (ie. fast food) industry?

[Leon]

Factories, warehouses, call centres and stocking shelves at grocery stores for example.  Security guard is also not a big step above entry level.  I have known people who have done that who said it was easy to get into and pays a bit better than fast food.  Warehouses also pay a bit better than fast food but the work could be hard, depends on what you are doing.

[simonvee]

Thanks Leon.

I think i'll stick with call center or perhaps data entry. It's more white-collar orientated.

[AllisonVSC]

retail

[newtone]

I like the title of this thread "Entry Level Positions"  hahaha

[simonvee]

If I titled it 'Senior/executive' or 'high paid' positions I would be bombarded with laughter wouldn't I?

[nicholas30]

Honestly new immigrants in entry level positions are doing well than professional who are still struggling to find a job......
Bottom line u gotta work your way up!!!!!!!!!

[newtone]

Honestly new immigrants in entry level positions are doing well than professional who are still struggling to find a job......
Bottom line u gotta work your way up!!!!!!!!!

You are absolutely right and this applies to professions and careers too

[Ced_3231]

Hi,

 Leon, simonvee, etc. you are making it sound easy, when you apply at a tim hortons, they ask you to fill 3 job experiences, where do you get that when you are new here? The factory job, where do you find that?

[Leon]

Any application form has space for prior job experiences but somehow, every working person in Canada also started their first job without any prior experience.  If you come from a foreign country, you fill in your prior foreign experiences and if you never had a job before, you put nothing.

You will usually find factory jobs in factories.  If you find no job ads where you can apply, try to go into industrial neighbourhoods and see if you see help wanted signs.  Even when you don't, it does not hurt to go to the office and leave your application.  Sometimes you get lucky and you end up with a job out of it.

A good example, I know a woman who moved to Edmonton.  She had lived a sheltered life and at age 30, her CV was literally empty but she needed a job.  She started applying.  Of course she did not get all the jobs she applied for.  She did call centre for short time and hated it.  Then she got a job as a waitress but she had to work 3 hours during lunch time and then had 3 hours off and then had to work another 6 hours in the evening.  It was not a very convenient working day.  Then she got a job in a hotel reception.  This one was not bad but it didn't pay very well.  Then she got a job in a department store and this one was much better.  You see, each of the crappy jobs both provided money in the piggy bank as well as the much needed job experience and she never stopped trying which resulted in landing better and better jobs all the time.  That just an idea of how you can do it.

[nicholas30]

Bravo Leon........makes sense!!!!!!!!!

[lekamle]

Thanks Leon
This gives me confidence !!!

[lekamle]

Factories, warehouses, call centres and stocking shelves at grocery stores for example.  Security guard is also not a big step above entry level.  I have known people who have done that who said it was easy to get into and pays a bit better than fast food.  Warehouses also pay a bit better than fast food but the work could be hard, depends on what you are doing.

Hi Leon

Is a student allow to do any such jobs ?

Thanks

[Leon]

If the student has an off campus work permit, he is allowed to do any job up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full time during holidays.  It could be hard to get a 20 hours a week job in a factory.  In my experience they seem to prefer and mostly have full time staff.  In a call centre it might be an option and in a store, stocking shelves or whatever I think it would definitely be an option.  It should also be easy to get a part time job in a restaurant.

[want2bethere]

how does one find a company to hire you and sign off on a work permit.  I am an office worker and have experience in leasing apartments and in the automotive bookkeeping, in my fifties, have skills and experience.  How do you find someone to do this?  I want to move there because my son and his family are there, got a place to stay, have my own car just need a position of employment.