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Last activity 02 July 2014 by philipyeo

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david784

Hi my name is David,lve been visiting Canada twice a year for the last 10 years now and would like to look into living and working there

James

Well, as you must already know if you've visited Canada frequently it's nowhere near as easy to find work there as it once was, especially if you're not a professional.

Start off by visiting the Citizenship and Immigration Canada official government website, fill out the online information and see if you qualify for a visa.

www.cic.gc.ca/english

Next you can try job search sites like www.workopolis.com  or www.monster.ca  to see if you can find anything. That said, it's always much easier to actually land a job in Canada if you're in the country and able to attend a personal interview.

Avoid Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver since these have been the top three destinations chosen by newcomers to Canada for decades now and frankly they're saturated, finding jobs there will be extremely difficult since you'll be competing with not only other newcomers but also unemployed local residents for every vacancy.

Cheers,
William James Woodward, EB Experts Team

david784

Thanks very much William for that,ld be looking around the Kingston area when lm over in august on holidays.

philipyeo

If you are in the skills trade (plumbing, welding, etc), there's tonnes of job in Alberta. They (Oil and Gas companies) pay well. Funny thing is, they pay so well, even the young Canadian men aren't taking up the essential jobs like 'Policeman', that they have to import folks from Ireland, Scotland or England to fill in the vacancies.

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