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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Should you get a job or start a business? A Tech Worker’s Immigration Story.
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
When you’re here, in Canada, should you get a job or start a business? Listen to a Tech Worker's Immigration Story in this Bernie Chats with Saeed Shamsi, MBA.
Saeed immigrated to Canada in the late 1990’s. He quickly got to work in his chosen field of technology, which gave him a front row seat in the Y2K computer programming boom and then the burst of the Dot Com Bubble between 2000 and 2002.
He has over 20 years experience in establishing and growing businesses in Canada, with roles that span from international business development, operation, finance, and technology.
Now he helps new Canadians get established in business, advising them on the ins and outs of the Canadian business environment and arming them with the experience and knowledge he's gained along the way.
Saeed co-founded NovoTech Software, which is specialized in providing analytical software for GeoTechnical Engineers, and was the president of the company until the acquisition by RocScience.
Saeed was also an independent director of Tulloch Resources, a publicly traded company in Canadian Stock Exchange, until the company was sold to Tidal Royalty in 2018.
He is also a director at World Forgotten children foundation, with the mission to provide helping hands to the unfortunate children that are orphaned and are living with disabilities.
Saeed’s Contact info
linkedin.com/in/saeed-otufat-shamsi-51a840
shamsi@capilanobusiness.com
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Bernie Chats with Gabriel Leal Vazquez of Pathways Immigration & Recruitment Canada, providing insights about immigrating to Canada and British Columbia.
If you're an employer considering hiring a foreign worker, residing in Canada or abroad, there are also some great insights for you.
The conversation is in English and we throw in a few sentences and insights in French and Spanish for those members of our audience.
Get the YouTube version, here:
https://jobsincanada.com/provinces/british-columbia-jobs-bc/
or on the B.C. Jobs Page on JobsinCanada.com, here:
https://jobsincanada.com/provinces/british-columbia-jobs-bc/
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Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Entrepreneurs and Workers, get tips and helpful information about immigration to Saskatchewan, Canada, all explored in this episode of Bernie Chats, with Daria Coneghan, Licensed Immigration Consultant and Foreign Worker Recruiter, and President, Reach International Recruitment & Immigration Services in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Full YouTube Transcript:
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immigration to saskatchewan canada for entrepreneurs and workers welcome to this bernie chats with daria conahan
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president reach international recruitment and immigration services
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hello everybody welcome to bernie chats we're recording on behalf of jobs in canada.com today and we're joined by
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daria conahan ceo of reach international recruitment and immigration based out of
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saskatchewan canada daria thanks for joining us how are you today i'm doing great i'm in sunny saskatchewan it's
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great here so how are things going in saskatchewan as far as the skills market the labor market how's how's that
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looking these days especially in light of the pandemic well we've got the pandemic to deal with
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but saskatchewan is booming really we just announced that cargill is putting a
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huge plant in here and also grant industries is
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putting in a 1.3 million dollar edition that's going to add more jobs and and
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you're quite involved in the agricultural side and the hospitality side i remember you told me
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well a little bit i mean you can't be from saskatchewan and not be involved in agriculture right i suppose yeah yeah
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yeah for our listeners saskatchewan is uh very spread out it's not very concentrated in the cities the cities
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are not that large they're about what 200 000 people in a province of what about 1.1 million
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something like that something like that 1.3 we have a lot of space
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yeah so there's a lot of a lot of nice towns whereas manitoba tends to be more centralized over half the population is
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in winnipeg for instance and there's very few cities outside of winnipeg yeah i mean these are regina saskatoon
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prince albert right we have some great little towns and and uh helmets outside but
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uh we're largely agriculture we have a lot of pot we're very diverse we have a lot of
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lentils so agriculture is big here it's a gamut of
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skills and trades here when you talk about the factory that's being built by cargill do
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you have any idea what kind of scale that that project's going to be and is it primarily cattle related no i don't
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think it's cattle related and i honestly i don't know much about it except that everyone was doing a big happy dance and
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i think they said 1500 jobs 1500 jobs that's a lot yeah do you think the current
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labor availability in saskatchewan can sustain that or will they have to bring in people from outside of saskatchewan
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or outside of canada i think you're going to have to bring people in it's very tough to get workers right now
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the jobs are there as we reopen especially in in different
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sectors i know hospitality industry is opening up again and they're not finding
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enough workers i i would imagine that we'll have to bring in or
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you know another route to go for someone looking to have a career here in the
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skills and trades we have absolutely fantastic education systems um sas
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polytech is the skills and trades if i were looking for my child to get into something i would see wow saskatchewan's
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booming here's a school get them into a trade get them in through apprenticeship
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great so is there anything about saskatchewan that makes it unique from other other provinces regarding
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occupation lists for entry or or the pnp program or anything like that
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an immigrant nominee program simp uh has several sectors there's several
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streams and instead of having a list of jobs that they accept they have a list that
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they don't accept because many so there's a an occupation's exclusion list in here
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occupation isn't on that list you're eligible to apply for occupations
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and demands and occupations in demand are our occupations that saskatchewan needs
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now or is going to need in the future and so you can apply for that without a
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job offer and that's very unique so you can apply to come in without having a job lined up
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right you need to score they have a grid and so you score 60 points or higher
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right be honest it's higher the competition would dictate that they would pick the highest numbers
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absolutely that's a great program our clb is lower at uh clb4 that's to do with your
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language score okay so clb is a language score yeah and and are they open to french and english
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or is it only english no open to french and english and if you have both you get more points bonus
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points for sure um so there's occupations in demand and
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then there's expressed entry and then of course there's the job offer there's farm
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there's so many streams one thing for sure that people your listeners need to know is that we always need an education
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credential assessment done it's fairly easy to get they don't have to pay someone like me to get it they can go to
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wes.org and apply and it just verifies their
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education that they're claiming so it's a educational verification is it instant or does it have to be researched and
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then come back to them and it comes back to them so there's a time academic it has been taking time and going through
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the pnp program you do need a french or an english language test i primarily
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work in saskatchewan right recently branched out to nova scotia as well when
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you go to nova scotia do you bring your zebras with you yeah that's my staff and you know what they're so good
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[Laughter] they don't do what i tell them but they listen so they're actually foreign
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workers yes [Laughter] they got their pr
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they got their pr that's great um step in and say one thing about that's very unique about
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saskatchewan uh is that if someone a foreign worker were to come and they're in a skilled
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trade or management position they can apply for pr within after six months
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oh yeah in saskatchewan i just want to unpack that a little bit in saskatchewan if you secure a job
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work in that position for six months then you can apply for for a permanent
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residence right whereas in most provinces it's a year or two yeah
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great that's really good and what about for students what's that path like in saskatchewan
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it's it's pretty good um we have a great university i well i graduated university of regina more times
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so once they they've graduated and they can get a postgraduate work permit which will allow them to work for
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an employer and then again after six months through saskatchewan experience
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they can apply great well another thing about our program is that if you apply through the oid
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through occupations in demand or express entry and you have a relative in saskatchewan you get more points
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that's good because that's more likely to keep you there if you have some some roots there or some family or some
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support network right exactly support network and show you around town and show you how to get
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your banking and right and and there's less likelihood of uh getting homesick being lonely you have
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you create another family right more or less so daria what are you focused on these
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days what is your your main focus my i started in this industry because i love travel i've been to i think
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31 countries i like learning about different cultures and things like that and
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then this started opening up i thought wow this does everything but i also have a passion for business which which
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programs are you most uh familiar with that we can dig in a little bit is it student programs or or is there any
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quite a bit of students with with the u of r and it's it's fairly seamless the thing with
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the students is they have to have their eca done of course
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uh the educational credential assessments right that we discussed before their language tests they can come for
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esl let's say you have someone who wants to
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go to school and do their certificate diploma va first of all it should be in line with
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what you've been doing previously you can't suddenly say i've been you
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know doing something for 10 years and now i want to get into this
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really easy route right right so and if you don't have your language
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test you can get a conditional approval so that you can write your or
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you take an esl class here but just because the school has invited you does not mean the visa officer will
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let you in okay that's really important because i have no control school has no
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control so it should be in line with with what you're capable of doing what your
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interests are and go from there so to unpack that a little bit um
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you can you can get a visa to study english in preparation for a course so you could say i'm i'm going
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to take dental hygiene let's say or whatever whatever the demand is that falls in line with your previous
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occupation and before that you could study english conditionally in other words i'm
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assuming that you have to pass it in order to continue on right
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right yeah now because of colbit um the government has allowed people to study
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from their own country right i was wondering about that i was wondering if
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well there's that and i was wondering about the working side of that too but why don't you finish that and i'll go to the working side well you know um
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a lot of people it's not just that canada doesn't want people coming in
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a lot of people are afraid to come in they may be in a country that has
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you know less cases than us right right and they want to stay home so
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they're allowed to now uh stay home and do up to 50 percent
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or more i think you may might have even changed it of their program and still go towards post-graduate work permit
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so so you could have a study visa and do fifty percent of your studying in
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your home country and the other 50 percent on the ground in the institution or the the educational facility in
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saskatchewan right and they may have to change that um
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i haven't done processed any under that right so every day things are changing
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so it is um it's tough to to give that's that's why
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i guess my job is here because i have to say i literally read about an hour's worth of changes every day wow to keep
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up it comes through my desk and and things and you know let's face it during this
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crisis this pandemic most of us we've never experienced one before so we're all on the fly whether
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we're politicians or employers or whoever we're kind of navigating our way through it the best we can
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um we're making the rules as we play the game yeah we do want students and it is
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getting safer here we're all being vaccinated and things are opening up
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so uh hopefully that the foreign worker that will open up more
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and now that now they've said that if someone is double vaccinated and they won't have to
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do the government quarantine the hotel so that that's huge because that was falling on
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the employers to pay that and you know when you're going in first of
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all temporary foreign workers are a big investment for an employer right
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and they're a big investment from both sides so if you just go well maybe i'll wait
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this one out so i do think that the gates are going to open soon i'm hoping
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so when you say a big investment for an employer what are the aspects of that investment what what
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considerations are there for employers well employers who want to hire on their
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own it's a lot of time you know you advertise one
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one job you and you're gonna get 300 work you know applications going through
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all them to me see of course we have to hire a canadian permanent
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resident first and foremost and if there's one available to do the job then you must hire a canadian but you
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screen all 300 applicants to see where they're from
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you have to open every single one and then go and if you can't find a canadian or permanent residence it involves
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interviewing them checking their education checking their credentials
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you know interviewing them also pay for the advertising
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if you're doing an lmia a permit it's a thousand dollars
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if they're coming in and they have to be quarantined you pay for the quarantine and you pay their wages while they're in
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quarantine oh okay so that is an investment it is a huge investment and and
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often people foreign workers um may not be able to hit the ground
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running maybe they need to a bit of adjustment into canadian culture into the way things are
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done skills and trades and so there's there's that so we're really
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you know at my company we're really about connecting the right people with the
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right employers we want them to stay we want them to be happy and
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business to boom great that's awesome that's great information so digging into a little bit about the
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the considerations for employers what happens with with medical when when
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a foreign job seeker comes in are they automatically on the medical system or do they have to wait three months or how
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does that work uh that's one of the great things about saskatchewan is you have your medical
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and that's not the same in every province no we're at home with tommy douglas we're all american yeah that's right for
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people who don't know the uh the medical system as we know it medicare was
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uh originated with one of the politicians from saskatchewan uh douglas
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um and and so does the the foreign recruiter the your yourself as a foreign recruiter do you check the references
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for these people or does the employer have to do that no we do that and we check um we make sure that they're
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translated we make sure that we verify that they came from there that they're translated to english
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that um you know the eca the education credential assessment is done through
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usually wes and we check the validity of their aisles and all that kind of stuff and
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also we do check their medical and their criminal background okay so you do a criminal record check you check their
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medical to make sure they don't have ailments that they're going to become a burden to the medical system on right
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right or an ineffective worker right right um
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do you do a credit check on them somebody asked me about that because they do credit check on their employees
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no okay i i mean that could easily be done right
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yeah that wouldn't no i mean which depending which country i guess right and how formal they
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i we do it for the business people okay right but i've never had that come
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across for a worker but i don't think it would be yeah i was surprised an hr person asked me that question
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um how how are the terms for foreign workers one year two year three year
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it depends on what what the employer wants okay and generally
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behind it is you know what if i'm hiring a foreign worker and i put in two years i really
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want to keep them right for sure you've made a big investment yeah the goal is to keep them and keep
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them with your company grow with your company they've had two years and they know it
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yeah you they're more self-sufficient at that point and the reason you got them in the first place is because you couldn't find anybody to start with
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right there there are some occupations um like in in agriculture that the
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temporary farm workers are seasonal right a lot of people from mexico come up to work in the fields and vineyards
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things like that and they don't necessarily want to stay so what kind of yeah because they are
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making money to support their family back home right right it makes sense i know in british
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columbia back about 10 years ago when i read the act the agricultural worker act for british
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columbia it included uh transportation to and from uh latin america or wherever their
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country was for i think it was at least one fight back and forth
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per year so yeah under this there's different not
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codes um right o is management is management b is skilled
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c is less c and d or lesser skill under the lesser-skilled trades
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an employer is obligated to pay the airfare okay great and so how does
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saskatchewan's agricultural worker program work is it similar to other ones is it is it a possible track in as a
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permanent residence or how do how does it work for yeah there is
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um there is a way for under the saskatchewan experience
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for agriculture there's an agriculture pilot project that
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actually it's a federal stream too that will allow people to come in
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and get permanent residency okay great and you you sorry you used a name there
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that slipped my mind the the program that you mentioned uh experience saskatchewan so can you tell me a little
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bit about the saskatchewan experience program well that's what we were talking about earlier if you've had six months
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experience in saskatchewan you're eligible to apply i see that's the program called saskatchewan experience
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wonderful so one of the things i was wondering about about getting canadian work work
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experience that maybe you can answer for me there's a lot of people working remotely right now and a lot of companies want
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their employees to work remotely so if for instance a company here wants to hire a foreign
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worker who happens to be in let's pick france uh and they want to hire them to work
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for their company which is based in regina and then that and you see where i'm going with this that that company that
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person works for that company for two years is that canadian work experience
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and does that count towards their qualifications for
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permanent residency go ahead funny you asked me that because i just asked that
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question yesterday um and the answer is no the answer is
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from saskatchewan or from feds from wherever in canada i asked a colleague okay
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because that's uh um i'm hiring right now and i found some in
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a different country and i had hoped because of covid i had hoped
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that we could start um okay so so working in another country
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for a company that has their employees working remotely currently does not apply to canadian work experience it has
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to be work experience in canada uh on the ground you have to be living here
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for that time to qualify okay that's good that's good to know yeah now someone has a company in another
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country and wants to establish here their top management they're skilled
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people over just to work at the company okay an inter-company transfer there's so
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many streams what skills are more in demand in saskatchewan right now that you're seeing come across your desk are
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you seeing more administrative more agriculture more hospitality i mean what kind of numbers uh there's more
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hospitality okay right now and i've heard that across the country
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because the hospitality industry you can't work from home
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right and i think a lot of hospitality workers who've been affected by kovid
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have realized this is not that secure if there's ever another repeat of covet and currently it's up and down
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so a lot of them are taking the opportunity to retrain maybe get it financed by serb or
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whatever program is available right and take another career path right
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and yeah and it's tough my son's a cook and two people on like one on each side of
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them tested positive oh really wow and there's nothing that hits reality
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like going to see your son and dropping groceries off while he's on the other side of a door
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right so a lot of the people don't want to come back maybe into the industry or i don't know
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but for whatever reason um that seems to be the big one if you have
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you know if you are in an administrative or managerial position
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you can do that remotely a lot easier right
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and and so like saskatchewan being a let me repeat that saskatchewan being a
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large agricultural producer i'm assuming there's a fair amount of food processing companies there too or are there
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uh there are that i mean we've got a couple big lentils
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we've got the sask wheat pool that is a co-op but we don't have a lot of huge large
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industries so you don't have companies that are making
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mass quantities of bread or cereal boxes or or
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not that i know of okay yeah yeah i know at one time they were trying to to uh acquire those kinds of
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processors because it makes sense i mean go to the source and produce it there and then ship it out but then i guess
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they want to ship the raw materials like we tend to do in canada ship the raw materials and have it
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processed uh closer to the population well here are the big farms i mean
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really really big farms and one of the i was on a conference call and one of the issues that came up for
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agriculture is that the farmers here they want a worker who
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understands the community aspect of how we are here right we're community
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oriented and we have to be when it's freezing cold out you have to be a good person so someone
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will come boost your car push you over the snow bank for sure each other out to survive here they want that but they
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they also need um it's a whole new world you may have a tractor that has three computers on it
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somebody who's computer savvy you know the younger generation
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they're just born with these things in their hand where so we need that that input and and know
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how to do that so there's a disconnect i think in
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what we need and what we can get also our tractors things like that may
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not be the same as in in a foreign country
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they may be more technologically well phil and and from what i've seen saskatchewan and other countries the
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equipment in saskatchewan is massive huge i mean you got huge combines and
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you know they're they're industrial size they're not just little tractors yeah it's crazy
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i went out yeah you know bought rural right i'm saying wow look at that
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tractor i never thought that it's impressive
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i guess the other thing in saskatchewan too is mining and open pit mining potash stuff like that is that still a going
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concern that we are i think we're amongst the biggest in the world here
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say it again please sorry that's plain uh up north we have you know cigar lake
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we have uh kojima and camaco are the two big mining companies here okay and do
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you know if they um hire foreign workers they probably do
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um okay i haven't been really in touch with them so much now when you look at up north the oil
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fields and the mining took a big hit right it did yeah with a drop in
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commodities prices really dropped and i think people were laid off and
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but it's picking up again you know great so what why don't we
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sorry go ahead we've done remarkably well through this pandemic good really have things are happening
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here oh that's great great so why don't we dig into two things then
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uh i want to ask you a little bit more about students and a little bit more about
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your business uh startup program so so with the students what advice do
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you have for students or people that want to take the student path in
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in getting their permanent residency in canada so to to enter the student path
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and become canadian citizens eventually take your courses carefully get them in
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line with what what you know what you're passionate about find a course that's
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a good fit for you that will give you a post-graduate work permit
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two things you know we might be able to help out and i'll give a plug at students at riri
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i have a director that will help out choosing a course and a path
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we work with any school or institution in canada but primarily with the university of regina
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and i find that works because i'm five minutes away i've worked there i've graduated from there i know it's it's a
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great school um but as i said previously sas polytech is a
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fantastic skills reach international will be implementing
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a direct student to work to pr
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program for select probably starting in agriculture maybe some health care and hospitality
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and that'll be in 2022 and it'll be a pilot project for us
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where we will assist people who come into one of the industries if
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it's hospitality tourism it would be because that fits with our other area
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or ag something like that and they take their their course they get their
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postgraduate work permit will give them some canadian experiences some saskatchewan experience that they can go
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into sorry can you you got that the bell again can you repeat that yeah i don't even know how to turn it off i'm sorry no worries
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but uh like i'm saying let's say we have someone going into hospitality and
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tourism then we'll get help them get into school get into the appropriate program
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and when they're done we'll give them an internship or work experience program
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for at least the six months that will qualify them for pr
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great that's that's super yeah i'm finding you know i'm a parent and i see all these moms
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and dads sending their children to canada for a better life and
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they go into courses like when i went to school everybody got a bachelor of psychology
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and did nothing with it and so i really want to help these people send their children here and say here
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here's a great path to go on and maybe they won't stay on
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that path but i'll sure open their eyes and they'll be exposed to different things they might be our next restaurant
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owner you know or or entrepreneur or you know start farming or do something
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i think it's kind of my passion you know to help people out like that and that's
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wonderful i think having that that kind of insight and experience uh to learn from and and choose a path i think is
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going to be really helpful for a lot of people it's um it's hard to have the kind of foresight
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and stuff when you're a young person you haven't really connected all the dots yet right
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yeah so that's good so what kind of resources if somebody wants to do that take that path what kind of resources should they
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have and what kind of steps should they take to get started i mean every every path starts with one step right right
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right well first of all i mean again if they email us
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we can help them do that and and just for we have different people in charge of different areas so
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it's students at riri.ca business at
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riris.ca you know employers at riri.ca and it helps because we get so many
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so many things um sure you can stream them to the right people right and you know if they forget that just go to our
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website ri r-i-r-i-dot-c we have so much information but if someone wants to
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you know go and help needs help on a direct path to pr um they can certainly email us and we'll
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see how they can fit into a school and get them into that so that they can go
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on to what they need to do excellent uh you know if i can say
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if you know if you are going through a consultant uh you
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honestly you get what you deserve if you don't go through somebody who's licensed and i can't stress that enough there's
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so many what we call ghost consultants out there who aren't licensed and i for instance i'm licensed
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in canada through iccrc they have everybody listed on their website you can check people out
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yeah so so the takeaway there is if you're if you're uh dealing with somebody about immigrating to canada
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and you want to check their credentials you can simply just go to the ircc iccrc
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the ic crc website yeah and and put in their information and make sure they're
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a registered uh immigration consultant right but in saskatchewan you have to also be licensed there
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so you may be on the iccrc site right and saying oh i can get you a job or
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whatever in saskatchewan and if you're not licensed here it's still illegal and also in nova
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scotia and how would you ver how would you verify lawyer credentials
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for a foreign if you want to go through a lawyer i would imagine just the bar
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so you'd check the the saskatchewan bar and then the bar over each different province to make sure they're they're uh
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red they're they actually have their bar and they're registered um as lawyers in that province
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yeah yeah don't believe on their website just because it says on a website
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doesn't mean it's true yeah and it's heartbreaking how many people i get that have spent tens and thousands
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of dollars really yeah well a lot so
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on that note do you want to share roughly what you what somebody should expect to pay as a job seeker or as an
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employer for either going through a process or to come into
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canada or to um to recruit foreign job seekers what is
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there a number you can share with us that would be like an industry standard or expectation industry standard okay
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there isn't there really isn't um we're all private practices
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so it's not you know it's um i guess the key
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takeaway from that is shop around but i may charge you 200 an hour
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and you may charge 400 an hour but you might get it done in half an hour and i'll take six hours yup okay so so i
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think you have to weigh uh the knowledge of the person and um generally under our oath we don't
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take cases that we're not confident in so if i'm not sure about something i will
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go to a colleague and ask them to to do it with me
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awesome you know i think the one thing about the rric is the regulated
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immigration consultancies we we want the best for our clients and we we want success at the end
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where you have somebody a ghost consultant
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what are you going to do you have no record you have no recourse is that the idea yeah well they're
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usually outside canada i think um i looked up a number and there was only 13 registered in india but there must be
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hundreds of offices hmm i see you know there's two i think registered
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in vietnam and there's hundreds of offices so okay
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so do your homework if you're if you're looking to come to canada you're you're a foreign job seeker or you want to come
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in as a student do your homework do your research to make sure they're legitimate and shop around talk to
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three or ten or however many you feel you should and make sure you find somebody that's comfortable with you
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probably a bad sign is somebody who wants you to to not to talk to other people and just to uh just forge ahead
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with them and and do your due diligence
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exactly yeah everything is available on the cip website
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people can do it on their own well that's one thing for people to take away as well is that the canadian
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government has tons of information there's canada is very good at putting all kinds
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of helpful information online uh including you know sites like jobsoncanada.com and
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private sites like that as well as government sites and the provincial sites i think the provincial sites are
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really key too because i think that's probably overlooked by a lot of foreign job seekers is okay there's a federal program for
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coming into canada but what about the specific programs of coming into saskatchewan ontario manitoba nova
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scotia right right and and our site at riri.ca we have so much information
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on everything because i noticed that guy oh awesome that helps nothing to do
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with me he's behind this but um you know there's a lot of information
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but it does speak to it is a life-changing
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decision that people are making it is a lot of money no matter which way you look at it
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you know selling your assets in your house and everything another country moving over
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so it's your comfort level do you want a professional taking care of you you know and and we take them right from
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the beginning whether it's a student a worker a business person right through to settlement services
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helping people find the right place to live schools and all that kind of stuff
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right or so having having a guide to take you through so you're not in the dark trying to figure out where
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the nooks and crannies and turns and and uh pathways are well i swear that things
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can change on the fly here i sometimes wonder if they wake up and say
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i you know i need to print something new today well and i think now there's a lot
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there's going to be a lot of changes because the whole world is changing yeah yeah
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yeah that's so great daria thanks so much for joining us welcome thank you coach i
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really appreciate it take care ciao bye and that concludes this bernie chats for
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Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Micro-Certifications, Linkedin Learning Tips, Choosing Your Career Path
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Micro-Certifications, Linkedin Learning Tips, Choosing Your Career Path
This CLIP of Bernie Chats was edited from our longer 3-Part series on Job Finding Tips and Strategies with Bart Zych.
Watch this episode clip on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/cjlR5-5y2ks
In this clip, Bart and I discuss:
- Micro-Certifications
- Continual Learning
- Education & Skills in demand by Employers
- Linkedin Tips related to certifications and Linkedin Learning
- Tips for choosing your Career Path
Full Episodes are also on our YouTube channel. BernieChats.com will take you there.
So have a pen and paper handy to take notes because this Bernie Chats CLIP is packed with valuable tips that will help you and other job seekers in Canada and the USA, or from abroad, to get the attention of employers and land a job.
Bart's resume and job search channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5v...
You can contact Bart to learn about his career coaching at http://bartzych.com.
Access Bart's online job finding tools and resources at https://kisss.academy.
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Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Topics & Approximate Timeline: Below
Frank Goldberg RCIC, CPA, CA - CEO CdnVISA
Frank Goldberg is the Founder and Senior Partner of CdnVISA Immigration Consultants.
Since 1970, Frank has experienced an extensive career as a CPA-CA (Chartered Professional Accountant), Certified Management Consultant and Business Broker, specializing in owner-managed business.
He has successfully owned and operated several businesses and developed numerous entrepreneurial endeavours.
Since 1998, Frank has focused on helping clients immigrate to Canada as a licensed RCIC (Registered Canadian Immigration Consultant) and a Licensed Foreign Worker Recruiter. He is also a Commissioner of Oaths.
Manitoba is experiencing an ongoing labour shortage.
Manitoba jobs most in demand include jobs in Manitoba’s primary industries of manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, hydroelectricity, natural resources, construction trades.
Healthcare and medical professionals including nurses as well as caregivers, including nannies / childcare workers, and elder caregivers are in great demand. Caregivers often find an easy path into Canada.
The mining industry is Manitoba’s second-largest industry employing over 4,000 people and is mostly located in its less populated northern regions and includes the former INCO mine which has been acquired by Vale Group.
Agriculture and food processing are key employers in Manitoba's rural areas with leading facilities like Maple Leaf Foods’ hog processing plant in Brandon, Manitoba and McCain Foods in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba as well as in Winnipeg with the Canadian Wheat Board and Cargill Canada and other food processing companies.
Its location in the geographical centre of North America is a key pillar of its highly developed distribution and transportation industries providing employment to thousands in warehousing, trade, transportation and truck driving jobs.
The largest manufacturing employers in the area offer careers in the aerospace industry, bus manufacturing, printing and furniture manufacturing with companies such as New Flyer Industries, MCI Motor Coach Industries, StandardAero.
See Winnipeg Jobs for information about Manitoba’s Financial Services, Tourism and Hospitality industries.
Search Winnipeg Jobs
Immigrating to Canada and Manitoba under Foreign Skilled Worker Programs
Insights, tips and strategies from one of Manitoba's most experienced Certified Immigration Consultants and Licensed Foreign Worker Recruiter
Video & Podcast details, and more, are listed at the bottom of this page. Here is the PODCAST version on PodBean.com.
In this Bernie Chats video, below, Frank Goldberg, SEO, Cdn VISA, explains Manitoba's current labour shortage and how both job seekers and employers can access programs to help them secure the opportunities and human resources they need to thrive. Topics covered in the video podcast will answer questions for both job seekers and employers, including:
- Which jobs are in demand in Manitoba and why does Manitoba have a skills shortage?
- How to get a Canadian work permit?
- What is the MPNP Program and how can it help Employers?
- What is Manitoba's "Employer Direct Recruitment Pathway"?
- Do I need English to immigrate to Canada? Why will knowing French help me to immigrate to Canada?
- Why are Winnipeg and Manitoba such great places to get established in Canada?
- Who pays for Recruitment Costs?
- How can students start with studying in Winnipeg and get their permanent Canadian residency? (example case - young lady from Sierra Leone)
- What are the three essential steps to immigrating to Canada as a foreign skilled worker? (19:44)
- Find an Employer and Get an LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment)
- Get a Work Permit
- Apply for PR, Permanent Residency
- What is an LMIA?
- How many Child Caregivers & Elder Caregivers work permits will be allocated in Canada?
- Are nurses in high demand in Canada? and, What's the best way for a nurse to get a job in Canada?
- What are the four ways to come to Canada, if you are not a refugee? (26:18)
- Family
- Business / Investment
- Student Visas
- Foreign Skilled Worker Programs
EMPLOYER CASE EXAMPLES - Frank explains examples of employers for who he has developed creative strategies to recruit employees for under the various foreign skilled worker programs available to Manitoba businesses, including:
- Hair Stylists (16:50)
- Acquiring specialized skill sets like machinery technicians by hiring through the Foreign Skilled Worker Program (24:12)
- Car Wash Personnel (39:56)
- Auto-body Repair Personnel (38:31)
- Excavation Company and Construction Workers (42:50)
- Roofers (45:00)
- Moving Company (45:37)
Watch the Video on YouTube | Listen to the Podcast
See the video version of this episode and search the Manitoba Jobs page on https://jobsincanada.com/provinces/manitoba-jobs/
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Get the full episode on this channel!
Manitoba Immigration and Finding Jobs in Winnipeg - Trailer 1 - Frank Goldberg, CEO Cdn VISA on Jobs, Studying & Business in Manitoba
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
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Manitoba Immigration and Finding Jobs in Winnipeg - Trailer 2 - Frank Goldberg, CEO Cdn VISA on Jobs, Studying & Business in Manitoba