Finding a job a.k.a "Why would they invite me?"

[mhbin]

Hello everyone,

I have 10 years of strong experience in my career. If I lived in Canada, I don't think I would have any hard time to find a job. But when I think about applying a job in Canada when I am still in the EE pool, I can not find any reason why they would even consider me. They will have to wait for months, they have to prepare a lot of official documents etc. Would it be worth it for them if I am not someone extremely special? How do people find jobs from their home country? I read here on this forum some stories about how people found jobs, but I seriously can not understand why they would choose waiting me for months instead of finding someone in Canada.

 

[Stanlee]

Hello everyone,

I have 10 years of strong experience in my career. If I lived in Canada, I don't think I would have any hard time to find a job. But when I think about applying a job in Canada when I am still in the EE pool, I can not find any reason why they would even consider me. They will have to wait for months, they have to prepare a lot of official documents etc. Would it be worth it for them if I am not someone extremely special? How do people find jobs from their home country? I read here on this forum some stories about how people found jobs, but I seriously can not understand why they would choose waiting me for months instead of finding someone in Canada.

With regard to the question of getting a job offer, as far as I know and heard is that companies generally do not entertain interviews for overseas candidates as they are not sure about when you would be landing in Canada. So the closest you can get to get an interview call is once you have landed in Canada. You can be only sure of getting a job offer only if your skills and experience is niche and Canadian employers are not able to meet their requirement locally. In that case it would be a LMIA backed job offer, otherwise, you will have to wait to get to Canada to get an offer.

Meanwhile, lookout for all the companies which you would like to target, look at their career pages, LinkedIn pages, try to connect with people over Linkedin, if you have any friends over there, try to see if they can introduce you to someone in their contacts which you can leverage once you land in Canada. Identify important job consultants, whom you can fall back on in case you do not succeed on your own. So once you land in Canada, you will be well equipped. All the best!