It Professional Recently moved to Edmonton,Alberta from India &finding jobs
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Posted on: 09-10-17 14:54:41
I worked in IT for a long time in Canada before moving to US. Many Canadian employers (full time) like HR interview first before technical. Many new immigrants never made HR interview and reach to 2nd round technical interview. If possible and local then try to make face to face interview/meeting than on phone.
Here are few things for HR interview:
1. New immigrants have accent so speak slowly and clear
2. This is not an interview to show your super tech knowledge so make sure you can explain in balance term between tech and business side knowledge
3. Try to connect your previous experience with existing job requirement
4. Do not bring hard salary number or give me anything. Open for competitive market salary and demand.
5. Some employees may feel threaten with words like automation, programming, offshore operation or robotics so if your job deals this kind of skills than try to connect dots with more demand of work and people.
6. When I take technical interview I would not like resume more than 3 pages max and no one cares what were you doing 10 year before, your hobbies, married status, %age in exams, when did you finish your 12th or colleges projects
That's cool, I will get in touch with her.
Thanks a lot 
Guys I have tailored my CV as a software developer, application support engineer , product manager in every way possible. But they just don't budge.
Recently , I joined a group on meet up and I am planning to meet professionals over there. I guess I need to meet people so that I can't build on my network and see how it works. I agree face value works!
The funny part is that I can see so many errors on these websites while filling up the registration forms and I am like you should at least call me!
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Originally posted by dsd
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Originally posted by karunsingh12
Hi dsd,
Thanks for sharing the job profile, I don't have the experience in this field however, I have worked on client facing maintenance projects and this definitely looks worth trying.
I will definitely apply for this job.
Truly appreciate our help.
Regards,
Karun
Just suggestion ( I am sure you don't require it )
Prepare specific resume for each job you apply , sometime you can show more than what you are and some time s show less - depend upon job requirement .
That's true. Sometimes they will tell you, you are overqualified for the job and sometimes they will tell you , you are under qualified for the job.
Overqualified is just as bad, as they know you are not going to stick around for long and after getting some experience, you are going to quit. So they won't hire you.
Sadly, sometimes you have to dumb down your resume just to get a job. If the job only requires a Bachelor's degree, then you have to hide your Master's Degree and apply for that job, so you don't get that Overqualified excuse.
I have applied for jobs in the past, where I have even left out certain past employers from my resume & some education from my resume, as I felt it was irrelevant to the job I am applying for, and it might actually be a negative and not a positive to list all that.
More is always not better in Canada.
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Originally posted by karunsingh12
Guys I have tailored my CV as a software developer, application support engineer , product manager in every way possible. But they just don't budge.
Recently , I joined a group on meet up and I am planning to meet professionals over there. I guess I need to meet people so that I can't build on my network and see how it works. I agree face value works!
The funny part is that I can see so many errors on these websites while filling up the registration forms and I am like you should at least call me!
Try jobbank.gc.ca also.
The professionals here are a joke.
After you meet them you will realise how stupid & illiterate some of them are, yet these fools have well paying jobs and smart/intelligent desi people like us are jobless or underemployed, due to the rampant racism, discrimination & nepotism by Canadian employers.
We are busy working in Wal Mart, Tim Hortons, Cab driving, Petrol Pumps, Pizza delivery, General labour in Warehouses/Factories, Security guards, so these White racist fools can have a good life.
They basically want educated immigrant labour, so they can have educated servants & maids in various sectors working for them.
Their technical knowledge & skills are ZERO, but they are good at small talk, kissing ass, going to a bar to have a few drinks after work, playing golf with the boss, talking about the stupid weather, talking about ice HOCKEY which is another stupid sport no one cares about besides Canada, being fake & artificial and exchanging pleasentries like " Hi, How are you ? How was your weekend ? blah blah..., while bitching & gossiping about you behind your back.
Desis are good at technical skills & academics like Math, Physics etc, and we don't do any of the nonsense above, due to cultural differences/shock & our upbringing. So our values & principles, make us lag behind.
Don't underestimate yourself and don't devalue your education, skills & qualifications just because Canada doesn't value it or recognises it.
The racist white people here, have an agenda.
They deliberately devalue your education/experience as you are a threat to them. They know if you realise your full potential, you will go much above them. They are very well aware of how good your credentials are, but pretend that they don't recognise them.
So they want to break your confidence, self esteem & self respect by constantly telling you, how we need Canadian experience & Canadian education and we don't care about your Indian education/experience.
A day will come, when even you will also start believing this nonsense and forget that you are an engineer, doctor, CA, architect and start doing low level survival jobs. That in a nut shell is " Canada's Immigration Policy " and Canada's needs.
BOOST YOUR INTERVIEW CHANCES.
Optimize your resume keywords or your LinkedIn profile against job descriptions.
https://www.jobscan.co/?utm_source=cjaffiliate
This is a very good site, which shows how your resume matches with the keywords in the job description. It will show 80 % match or 75 % match or whatever. The higher the better.
JOBSCAN
Sometimes the companies use something called ATS - Applicant Tracking System, which automatically scans your resume, when you apply for a job and rejects the resume based on whether it matches the job description or not.
NO human eye sees your resume in the initial stages, only the ATS does. The resumes selected by the ATS then go to the hiring or HR manager for further manual review.
Some HR managers are stupid the set the filters for the ATS system really high, so lot of good resumes also get rejected by the ATS. Then these same fools sit and complain that they are NOT getting good resumes or applicants for the job.
If only these HR fools did their job properly, qualified applicants wouldn't have to go through all this BS.
