QUEBEC APPLICANTS LETS SHARE EXPERIENCE

[Bachar]

Points for your wife's experience will only count within the last five yrs. ie. experience gained in the 5yrs preceding her application.

I think they count the experience gained in the 5yrs before the interview not the application

 

[Ketevan]

Hi Stylove,
My profession is not regulated, it is economist and university teacher. No need for evaluation. However, I submitted for evaluation comparative of my degrees and it will take about a year to get results given current processing time

Ketevan i feel sorry for your situation, but is your profession not regulated in Quebec?

As far as i know, it is not as if international credentials are not considered in Quebec/Canada, but there is a service called Comparative Evaluation which compares your international credentials with Quebec credentials, and makes you to be eligible to get registration into a professional order, which inturn asks for other documents and possibly a licensure exam, after which you are issued a license to practice in your ORIGINALLY TRAINED profession.

Have you tried that?

 

[Ketevan]

Well it is a standard situation. If you check the section "finding job in canada" on this forum you will see that there are many of us. Even IT specialists who worked in large multinationals are suffering.
I am in Montreal and I have not tried outside, because I cannot live in a rural place. I need a good public transport service and infrastructure, especially in winter when the snow comes to your knees. Besides, my area is university teaching and economic analysis, all jobs in this field are concentrated around Montreal.
I signed a contract before landing that I will live in Quebec, so I do not want to go elsewhere and jeopardize my PR. I know many candidates move outside of Quebec unnoticed, but it does not mean that it should be like that. Finally, the cost of living in most english provinces is much higher than in Quebec. I do not have motivation for moving.


No I have not tried o

Wow! It's almost scary. My husband has a Phd in Chemistry and I have a Msc in Human Resource Management. We are only now learning french. I expect that when we land in quebec we would have to accept jobs that are below our level of training but would never expect it to be so bad. Do you think you are quitting too soon? Where in quebec are you? Have you tried another area of Quebec? At least as a last resort why not try to apply outside of Quebec? Please keep us posted because we all believe this is a glorious opportunity but we need to hear from persons who are actually there already so that we can have an idea of what we are up against.

Are there any other members of this forum with a better experience that can be shared with us?

Geochaddy

 

[Ketevan]

Ievgen,
Academic job in my field does not need liecense. However, there are no vacancies now. In december recruitment will start for September 2014, but there are only 6 universities in Montreal. My specialty is intrtnational finance. The probability that there will be a lectureship in intl finance open is extremely low. And even if a post will be open, imagine how many hungry and unemployed PhDs from all over Europe and North America will be applying for it 8) academic job and government job are extremely difficult to get because both pay fortune. Even a call centre job for government I saw last week pays 60 000$!
btw, I have to return back to collect my stuff. Maybe after I see a few bombs flying by, I will gain motivation to come back and work in call centres

Ketevan,

That's incredible how things go. I'm really sorry to hear that you're returning back. You felt quite motivated when you went in person to show your degrees when submitting docs for comparative evaluation. That's a shame that in fact this evaluation worth nothing but it takes a very long time to get it. There's no guarantees anywhere in terms of jobs. I bet nobody would last call center job with disrespectful clients, and it's not a long-term solution. It's a pity that you didn't get a community college faculty position in economics. That would have been a right start. I would suggest you to go for academics to land a first job offer but it most likely requires a license and foreign degree accreditation like in the US.
Anyway, I wish you success in landing a good offer, and if you decided to return back that might be a better solution in a current situation.

 

[Ketevan]

Dear It is already my 5th month here ;D
I never lose confidence in myself, I only lose confidence in the so called western democracy and free market

Dear don't lose your confidence....yes, u may work on lower post and on less salary for some months...but u can get good job in 3-4 months...so keep on trying !!

 

[Ketevan]

No I am not blond with blue eyes, you think it would have helped to be like that? ;D
I never believed in land if opportunities, I only regard Canada as a safe place to live because it is the closest ally to the US therefore cannot be easily aggressed.
I never expected a brilliant career here

applicants were waiting around 4-6 years for visa to find their dream was not real, its not a land of opportunities as they say...

maybe you must be blond with blue eyes ?

 

[lemans207]

Dear It is already my 5th month here ;D
I never lose confidence in myself, I only lose confidence in the so called western democracy and free market

how many month you should remain jobless in order to receive help from government? thats what i am looking for

 

[Ketevan]

I believe it was 3 months from landing when I checked it last time. That help will barely cover your rent. The only way to survive on benefits is to make a couple of babies, but I am not sure such method attracts you

how many month you should remain jobless in order to receive help from government? thats what i am looking for

 

[Ievgen]

Ievgen,
Academic job in my field does not need liecense. However, there are no vacancies now. In december recruitment will start for September 2014, but there are only 6 universities in Montreal. My specialty is intrtnational finance. The probability that there will be a lectureship in intl finance open is extremely low. And even if a post will be open, imagine how many hungry and unemployed PhDs from all over Europe and North America will be applying for it 8) academic job and government job are extremely difficult to get because both pay fortune. Even a call centre job for government I saw last week pays 60 000$!
btw, I have to return back to collect my stuff. Maybe after I see a few bombs flying by, I will gain motivation to come back and work in call centres

I completely agree. The pool of applicants is huge for academic jobs. I also sent hundreds of applications for a college instructor/adjunct faculty after completion of grad school in the US. I got two offers from Florida and Texas, but I couldn't take them as they were part-time, and that's the reason why I had to leave the US after graduation. If I had a green card there would be absolutely no problem ;D In that setting it's a very valuable advantage to have a PR because you can take part time instructor position with no minimum requirement of certain hrs/week. I know that it's a miracle to get a full-time tenured track faculty position, but part-time lecturer or even online course instructor for the first time might be a good start, and there are many more of such positions than of full-time ones. Teaching 1-2 courses (18-20hrs/week) should roughly equal to 2000$/monthly for the beginning while you keep applying and looking for better ones. However, I see that the main difficulty is being restricted to Quebec area with only 6 universities. In this case, after you boost your motivation consider temporary going for a postdoc if immediate faculty position isn't possible. That might be less stressful thing than responding to clients in a call-center.

 

[Raina29]

how many month you should remain jobless in order to receive help from government? thats what i am looking for

So you are not going ahead with your music company??? i started learning singing cos of that!

 

[Ievgen]

how many month you should remain jobless in order to receive help from government? thats what i am looking for

Nice one lemans No need to hassle with all this unnecessary staff like comparative evaluation, professional orders and permits

 

[Ketevan]

I would be delighted to take post doc but postdoc is not common for social sciences, it is more relevant to sciences. In the past 2 years, I have not seen even one post doc post in economics in Canada.
Believe me I have already applied to everything I could. There is no college, bank or consulting company left in Montreal where I have not applied yet and to many of them I have already applied twice 8)

I guess those of you who did sciences will have more opportunities here.

I completely agree. The pool of applicants is huge for academic jobs. I also sent hundreds of applications for a college instructor/adjunct faculty after completion of grad school in the US. I got two offers from Florida and Texas, but I couldn't take them as they were part-time, and that's the reason why I had to leave the US after graduation. If I had a green card there would be absolutely no problem ;D In that setting it's a very valuable advantage to have a PR because you can take part time instructor position with no minimum requirement of certain hrs/week. I know that it's a miracle to get a full-time tenured track faculty position, but part-time lecturer or even online course instructor for the first time might be a good start, and there are many more of such positions than of full-time ones. Teach 1-2 courses (18-20hrs/week) should roughly equal to 2000$/monthly for the beginning while you keep applying and looking for better ones. However, I see that the main difficulty is being restricted to Quebec area with only 6 universities. In this case, after you boost your motivation consider temporary going for a postdoc if immediate faculty position isn't possible. That might be less stressful thing than responding to clients in a call-center.

 

[rifiel]

I would be delighted to take post doc but postdoc is not common for social sciences, it is more relevant to sciences. In the past 2 years, I have not seen even one post doc post in economics in Canada.
Believe me I have already applied to everything I could. There is no college, bank or consulting company left in Montreal where I have not applied yet and to many of them I have already applied twice 8)

I guess those of you who did sciences will have more opportunities here.

Ketevan,

Be strong, do not be discouraged. I guess every immigrant has their own story to tell. I hope that eventually, yours will be a good one. It's nice you still come to post frequently on this forum. Maybe once your credential evaluation comes through, you will end up choosing your employer.
A little patience, and you'll see.

Bon courage mon ami avec votre rechercher d'emploi.

 

[lemans207]

Actually i always meet jobless canadians in dubai searching for jobs, one of them my cousin that was ready to accept salary 1300$ which not enough for rent in uae

watch this video , all have problems are ketevan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48wm95fI_W8

not canada

 

[signalmaker]

how many month you should remain jobless in order to receive help from government? thats what i am looking for

3 months according to Quebec, and 6 months in the federal system, i don't know where we belong ..