Admiral Beez
Superstar
I've been assigned to hire one warehouse labourer for our Markham operation, and my goodness I've received over 500 applications, most of whom have advanced university degrees and/or professional credentials from overseas. If you have a PhD in Astrophysics, MBA in Finance or a P.Eng. from your home country you should not have to resort to applying for a min. wage unskilled labourer role. But I'd say 4/5 of the applicants are thus overqualified and clearly looking for a survival job.
As an immigrant to Canada myself this pisses me off, as this is not Canada's historical immigration, where there was chance to apply your skills and experience from your home country. My wife's Ukrainian grandparents were farmers, and when they came to Canada in the 1930s, they were allocated land and returned to being farmers. My great uncle was an Engineer at British Petroleum, and when he moved to Canada in the 1960s, his P.Eng credentials were immediately accepted, and he worked at BP Canada until he retired. My dad was working at J. Walter Thompson (JWT) in London, and in 1976 transferred to the JWT office in Toronto without skipping a beat. But this rarely happens now. My current family doctor graduated from King's College London Medical School in the 2010s, and had his credentials immediately accepted and began working in Canada, but that's a rare thing.
It just seems to me that Canada and its embassies around the world are scamming potential immigrants in order to make quota. Instead, they must not be told that their credentials, education and skills are meaningless in Canada, and that best you'll do is work in my employer's warehouse. Or even better, Canada should expand the Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP) and work with the Canada's professional/trade associations and universities so that new immigrant with a CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant) from their home country can immediately (or very soon after verifications) begin working in that role in Canada. Otherwise we're just a country of scammers, hoodwinking people into potentially wrecking their lives.
As an immigrant to Canada myself this pisses me off, as this is not Canada's historical immigration, where there was chance to apply your skills and experience from your home country. My wife's Ukrainian grandparents were farmers, and when they came to Canada in the 1930s, they were allocated land and returned to being farmers. My great uncle was an Engineer at British Petroleum, and when he moved to Canada in the 1960s, his P.Eng credentials were immediately accepted, and he worked at BP Canada until he retired. My dad was working at J. Walter Thompson (JWT) in London, and in 1976 transferred to the JWT office in Toronto without skipping a beat. But this rarely happens now. My current family doctor graduated from King's College London Medical School in the 2010s, and had his credentials immediately accepted and began working in Canada, but that's a rare thing.
It just seems to me that Canada and its embassies around the world are scamming potential immigrants in order to make quota. Instead, they must not be told that their credentials, education and skills are meaningless in Canada, and that best you'll do is work in my employer's warehouse. Or even better, Canada should expand the Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP) and work with the Canada's professional/trade associations and universities so that new immigrant with a CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant) from their home country can immediately (or very soon after verifications) begin working in that role in Canada. Otherwise we're just a country of scammers, hoodwinking people into potentially wrecking their lives.
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