Canadian wants to move to Amsterdam

Hi Ibra and welcome to the Forum.

To get a decent job anywhere, you need 4 things:

Relevant experience
Relevant qualifications
Speak the local language
Luck

I'll leave it to you to tick off the list how many of those you have.  Our experience on here tells us that long-range job seeking is problematic at best.  Unless you have a skill/qualification that is in great demand, the moment they realised you can't start work tomorrow and don't speak Dutch, they lose interest; speculative CV's tend to fail for the same reason.  You have said that you have family already living in Holland, so that will give you a place to start from in your job search, so I wouldn't worry too much about not finding anything from where you live now.

From what you've told us, I don't think you will qualify for a highly skilled migrant visa, so you will need to apply for a work visa; this link will take you to the Dutch government website that explains the process; it's a very useful page as it lists all the possible work permits that are available and links take you to different sections.

One thing for certain, although as a Canadian citizen, you will not need to go through the MVV exam and formally learn Dutch before they will grant your visa, being able to speak Dutch will greatly enhance your chances of finding work, so I strongly recommend you start learning as soon as possible.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team