We know that most of the Engineering profession is regulated in Canada. Among those are Civil, mechanical, electrical, computer(except IT) and many other branches of engineering. We also know that, thousands of engineers migrated to Canada from all over the world, making huge difference in supply and demand. There was a massive influx of foreign trained Engineers in the last decade. During the last decade alone (2001-2010), among professionals @75% of them were engineers. This is the profession which has seen its yearly national supply rate increase 3-fold in a decade where the labour force and economy grew less than 20% is going to be in trouble for a generation. (Do your math, 15 engineers behind 1 job) Among these nearly 55% of foreign-trained engineers, a group which for three years was basically the same size as Canada's ENTIRE engineering graduating class, try to settle in Toronto representing less than 17% of Canada's jobs, eventually the results are entirely predictable. Result, highly qualified and experienced Engineers start to drive taxis, work as labourer in factories and curse their choice to come here.
(Ref: Professional Engineers Ontario member discussion forum-ww.peo.on.ca)
Thanks to Canadian government, since February 2008, the new list of 38 high demand categories was published and unlimited supply of engineers was stopped altogether.
I have opened this thread to discuss current job situation for engineers in Canada. Is there any improvement? Landed engineers are welcome to comment and please give us some insight.
So, immigrating Engineers please come forward, discuss and help each other.
SISH7255
(Ref: Professional Engineers Ontario member discussion forum-ww.peo.on.ca)
Thanks to Canadian government, since February 2008, the new list of 38 high demand categories was published and unlimited supply of engineers was stopped altogether.
I have opened this thread to discuss current job situation for engineers in Canada. Is there any improvement? Landed engineers are welcome to comment and please give us some insight.
So, immigrating Engineers please come forward, discuss and help each other.
SISH7255