Farrukh Ahmed said:
I think upgrading of education will not work if most of us will do it. Actually Canada does not have so many jobs to absorb the number of people given the immigration on point system. This is the main reason employer is so much demanding. For each vacancy they have hundreds of candidate so the top most in skills or networking is selected although many of others are fairly good. If you look into a labour job posting, the employer asks for a guy who has the skills of a doctor, an engineer and few other professions at the same time. Canadian government knows this and is continuously making the things harder for new immigrants. I have heard from an engineer who landed in 94, he was just walked in to the Canadian Council for Professional Engineers, submitted the photocopy of his back home engineering degree and got the PE licence in 2 days without any course, exam or interview. Now it there is a long list of courses, exams, training and interviews, tasks to qualify for this. Canadian government wants the highly qualified labour so they played the immigration game. Also the professionals who are reasonably well paid back home, when come to Canada, bring good amount of money with them and afterwards to make expensive living here. This is Canadian government business. Many of my friends PHD in Engineering from top universities of UK and USA are doing 10$ labour jobs. Canadian government should tell about the small job market to all the applicants so they could know before coming to Canada that they will have to do the small and labour jobs. I am sure, 99% will not come to Canada.
First of all, The job market is not controlled or governed by the government, why do candidates put the blame on the government.
Secondly, whether one gets accredited or qualified for a P Eng or any other qualification that is to be accredited in Canada, is all dependent on the candidate's educational background and experience in his home country, and where the educational qualification is attained and where his experiences are from. Canada employers, to be frank are very fussy and particular about educational qualification and especially where or which country it is from, in the engineering field, they are only interested in US or Canadian or countries where the engineering board of Canada has pact with and has similar accreditation, say, example, in Asia, only Hong Kong, Singapore etc engineering degrees are accreditated and can easily get the P Eng. At the same time, accreditation by the respective P Eng boards such as APEGG or any other province engineering boards all have their own requirements but generally are all similar.
Thirdly, if one wants to be an engineer here or a technical person in Canada, if you do not have a North America qualification, I would strongly suggest you to get a Canadian engineering degree or a US one to be able to register as P Eng after becoming a EIT or else, just dont complain and good luck to one getting a true engineering job.
I completely have to disagree with you that obtaining a Canadian education will not work if you plan to be a technical or law or doctor here cause I am the true example of having already a US degree, 2 masters from Australia and HK and yet I have got my Canadian engineering qualification and then I am already hired in a top Oil company here in Canada and mind you, its a change of career for me as well!
So if anyone wants to really land a job and a good career in Canada, you have to work hard, put in the time and investment and you will succeed eventually given the right strategy and hard work.