The best time to look for a job in Canada
Canadian employers are complaining that there's no one to work for, Canadians aren't responding to jobs, they want to stay home and get benefits.
There is a crisis in the labour market because of the shortage of staff. There are not enough immigrants either, because there were few selections in the pandemic. All in all, things are bad.
People in Russia, Ukraine and other countries also complain, according to them, it is impossible to find a job in Canada. They send out CVs and they are ignored or they write that they don't want to hire people from abroad. Everything is bad again.
Who to believe, I don't know, but for some reason in the last month Canadian news has been filled with articles about how everyone is understaffed.
Labour market research
I recently talked about how Canada's Atlantic provinces have a skills shortage and many employers are willing to hire people from abroad. It turns out that hiring problems aren't just in Atlantic Canada. There are regions where the shortage of specialists is even higher.
Canada's largest bank, RBC, has released an analysis of the Canadian labour market. It says Canada's job openings rose 22% from May to June, with more than 800,000 openings in June, but unemployment is still high at 7.5%, although it was 5.7% before the pandemic.
Hotel and restaurant, catering, healthcare and retail sectors are the most understaffed. These are the sectors that have been hit by the pandemic. And the number of vacancies is only expected to increase in the coming months, especially where there is not much pay.
What's the reason? Analysts at RBC write that at the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of people lost their jobs because things were closing down. But lately they've started leaving voluntarily. The state pays covidual benefits, many have decided to retire early, some want to work only unofficially so they don't lose their benefits, some are looking for higher wages.
The very popular job search site Indeed conducted a survey in which 35% of the unemployed responded that they weren't even trying to look for work and weren't interested in doing so at all. I wonder why? Another 34% said that they did not mind going to work, but they were not looking for vacancies either. This means that 69% of people do not care about the fact that they are unemployed. Only 14% responded that they urgently needed a job.
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And the last survey to date, conducted by audit firm KPMG. More than 500 companies took part in the survey, and almost 70% of them said that they were having difficulty finding people and that they wanted to hire more people over the next three years. And, incidentally, more than half said they were willing to look abroad for people because they weren't sure they would find Canadians.
And this survey is not about low-skilled workers with small salaries; instead, these companies are looking for people who are tech-friendly because many businesses have had to work online because of the pandemic.
Regions with the highest shortage of workers
I promised to tell you where employees are most needed, aside from the Atlantic provinces. RBC Bank writes that in Quebec and British Columbia. British Columbia, by the way, has immigration selections every week for those who have a job offer in the province.
Quebec has also started to do a lot of selections, more than 1500 people were invited there in August. And you can now come there on a work visa, apply for permanent residency, and get an open work permit immediately with the right to work for any company. Previously, you could only work for one employer until a permanent residence permit was approved.
Job Search in Canada
Studies write that there is a shortage of workers, and you say that companies themselves ignore everyone. Of course, finding a job in Canada from abroad will not be easy. Our website has a section "success stories" that publishes interviews with immigrants. Some of them got to Canada specifically through employment, and if they succeeded, then it is possible.
But it's not enough just to translate your Russian CV into English in Google Translator and send it to a couple of vacancies, that way no-one will take you on. Sometimes people complain that they send out a lot of CVs, but nobody replies, and when I look at their CVs, it's just awful.
To find a job in Canada, you need, first, a quality resume written according to Canadian standards, and second, to send a lot of feedback. Real-life example: I recently interviewed a girl who got a job in Canada as an educator. She sent several hundred resumes and only two employers were willing to hire her. But now she lives in Canada and earns much more than in her home country.
As for the resume, either look for how to make it in Canadian format, or contact our company, we have a specialist who handles resume writing. But you have to look for a job yourself, because in Canada, it is forbidden to help with the employment for money, and you don't want to look for free.
Alex Pavlenko, Founder of Immigrant.Today
